Author: Brodzinski, K.
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MOP245 Quench Tests at the Large Hadron Collider with Collimation Losses at 3.5 Z TeV 157
 
  • S. Redaelli, R.W. Aßmann, G. Bellodi, K. Brodzinski, R. Bruce, F. Burkart, M. Cauchi, D. Deboy, B. Dehning, E.B. Holzer, J.M. Jowett, E. Nebot Del Busto, M. Pojer, A. Priebe, A. Rossi, M. Sapinski, M. Schaumann, R. Schmidt, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, G. Valentino, R. Versteegen, J. Wenninger, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • L. Lari
    IFIC, Valencia, Spain
 
  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been operating since 2010 at 3.5 TeV and 4.0 TeV without experiencing quenches induced by losses from circulating beams. This situation might change at 7 TeV where the reduced margins in the superconducting magnets. The critical locations are the dispersion suppressors (DSs) at either side of the cleaning and experimental insertions, where dispersive losses are maximum. It is therefore crucial to understand in detail the quench limits with beam loss distributions alike those occurring in standard operation. In order to address this aspect, quench tests were performed by inducing large beam losses on the primary collimators of the betatron cleaning insertion, for proton and lead ion beams of 3.5 Z TeV, to probe the quench limits of the DS magnets. Losses up to 500 kW were achieved without quenches. The measurement technique and the results obtained are presented, including observations of heat loads in the cryogenics system.