HB2012 - List of Authors (Effinger, E.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOP203	Bunch-by-Bunch Beam Loss Diagnostics with Diamond Detectors at the LHC	41
	M. Hempel BTU, Cottbus, Germany T. Baer University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany S. Bart Pedersen, B. Dehning, E. Effinger, E. Griesmayer, A. Lechner, R. Schmidt CERN, Geneva, Switzerland W. Lohmann DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	A main challenge in the operation with high intensity beams is managing beam losses that imply the risk of quenching superconducting magnets or even damage equipment. There are various sources of beam losses, such as losses related to injection, to beam instabilities and to UFOs (Unidentified Falling Objects). Mostly surprising in the first years of LHC operation was the observation of UFOs. They are believed to be dust particles with a typical size of 1-100 um, which lead to beam losses with a duration of about ten revolutions when they fall into the beam. 3600 BLMs (Beam Loss Monitors) are installed around the LHC ring, allowing to determinate the accurate location of UFOs. The time resolution of the BLMs is 40 us (half a turn revolution). A measurement of the beam losses with a time resolution better than the bunch spacing of 50 ns is crucial to understand loss mechanisms. Diamond sensors are able to provide such diagnostics and perform particle counting with ns time resolution. In this paper, we present measurements of various types of beam losses with diamond detectors. We also compare measurements of UFO induced beam losses around the LHC ring with results from MadX simulations.

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Bunch-by-Bunch Beam Loss Diagnostics with Diamond Detectors at the LHC

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M. Hempel
BTU, Cottbus, Germany
T. Baer
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
S. Bart Pedersen, B. Dehning, E. Effinger, E. Griesmayer, A. Lechner, R. Schmidt
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
W. Lohmann
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

A main challenge in the operation with high intensity beams is managing beam losses that imply the risk of quenching superconducting magnets or even damage equipment. There are various sources of beam losses, such as losses related to injection, to beam instabilities and to UFOs (Unidentified Falling Objects). Mostly surprising in the first years of LHC operation was the observation of UFOs. They are believed to be dust particles with a typical size of 1-100 um, which lead to beam losses with a duration of about ten revolutions when they fall into the beam. 3600 BLMs (Beam Loss Monitors) are installed around the LHC ring, allowing to determinate the accurate location of UFOs. The time resolution of the BLMs is 40 us (half a turn revolution). A measurement of the beam losses with a time resolution better than the bunch spacing of 50 ns is crucial to understand loss mechanisms. Diamond sensors are able to provide such diagnostics and perform particle counting with ns time resolution. In this paper, we present measurements of various types of beam losses with diamond detectors. We also compare measurements of UFO induced beam losses around the LHC ring with results from MadX simulations.