HB2012 - List of Authors (Wenninger, J.)

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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.

TUO1C04

Detection of Unidentified Falling Objects at LHC

305

E. Nebot Del Busto, T. Baer, F.V. Day, B. Dehning, E.B. Holzer, A. Lechner, R. Schmidt, J. Wenninger, C. Zamantzas, M. Zerlauth, F. Zimmermann
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
M. Hempel
BTU, Cottbus, Germany

About 3600 Ionization Chambers are located around the LHC ring to detect beam losses that could damage the equipment or quench superconducting magnets. The BLMs integrate the losses in 12 different time intervals (from 40 μs to 83.8 s) allowing for different abort thresholds depending on the duration of the loss and the beam energy. The signals are also recorded in a database at 1 Hz for offline analysis. Since the 2010 run, a limiting factor in the machine availability occurred due to unforeseen sudden losses appearing around the ring on the ms time scale. Those were detected exclusively by the BLM system and they are the result of the interaction of macro-particles, of sizes estimated to be 1-100 microns, with the proton beams. In this document we describe the techniques employed to identify such events as well as the mitigations implemented in the BLM system to avoid unnecessary LHC downtime.

Slides TUO1C04 [6.812 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
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.

TUO1C04	Detection of Unidentified Falling Objects at LHC	305
	E. Nebot Del Busto, T. Baer, F.V. Day, B. Dehning, E.B. Holzer, A. Lechner, R. Schmidt, J. Wenninger, C. Zamantzas, M. Zerlauth, F. Zimmermann CERN, Geneva, Switzerland M. Hempel BTU, Cottbus, Germany
	About 3600 Ionization Chambers are located around the LHC ring to detect beam losses that could damage the equipment or quench superconducting magnets. The BLMs integrate the losses in 12 different time intervals (from 40 μs to 83.8 s) allowing for different abort thresholds depending on the duration of the loss and the beam energy. The signals are also recorded in a database at 1 Hz for offline analysis. Since the 2010 run, a limiting factor in the machine availability occurred due to unforeseen sudden losses appearing around the ring on the ms time scale. Those were detected exclusively by the BLM system and they are the result of the interaction of macro-particles, of sizes estimated to be 1-100 microns, with the proton beams. In this document we describe the techniques employed to identify such events as well as the mitigations implemented in the BLM system to avoid unnecessary LHC downtime.
	Slides TUO1C04 [6.812 MB]