Author: Antonakakis, T.
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MOPPD081 Upgrade of the LHC Beam Dumping Protection Elements 556
 
  • W.J.M. Weterings, T. Antonakakis, B. Balhan, J. Borburgh, B. Goddard, C. Maglioni, R. Versaci
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The Beam Dumping System for the Large Hadron Collider comprises for each ring a set of horizontally deflecting extraction kicker magnets, vertically deflecting steel septa, dilution kickers and finally, a couple of hundred meters further downstream, an absorber block. A mobile diluter (TCDQ) protects the superconducting quadrupole immediately downstream of the extraction as well as the arc at injection energy and the triplet aperture at top energy from bunches with small impact parameters, in case of a beam dump that is not synchronized with the particle free gap or a spontaneous firing of the extraction kickers. Simulations have shown that an asynchronous dump of a 7 TeV nominal beam into the TCDQ absorber blocks could damage it. This paper describes the proposed changes to this device in order to maintain the protection for the downstream elements while reducing the risk of damaging the TCDQ in case of such a beam loss.  
 
THPPP015 A Clamped Be Window for the Dump of the HiRadMat Experiment at CERN 3758
 
  • M. Delonca, T. Antonakakis, D. Grenier, C. Maglioni, A. Sarrió Martínez
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  At CERN, the High Radiation to Materials facility (HiRadMat) is designed to test accelerator components under the impact of high-intensity pulsed beams and will start operation in 2012. In this frame a LHC TED -type dump was installed at the end of the line, working in nitrogen over-pressure, and a 258μm-thick beryllium window was placed as barrier between the inside of the dump and the external atmosphere. Because of the special loading conditions, a clamped window design was especially developed, optimized and implemented, the more standard welded window not being suitable for such loads. Considering then the clamping force and the applied differential pressures, the stresses on the window components were carefully evaluated thanks to empirical as well as numerical models, to guarantee the structural integrity of the beryllium foil. This paper reports on choices and optimizations that led to the final design, presenting also comparative results from different solutions and the detailed results for the adopted one.