Author: Weterings, W.J.M.
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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.  
 
TUPPR090 Analysis of Ferrite Heating of the LHC Injection Kickers and Proposals for Future Reduction of Temperature 2038
 
  • M.J. Barnes, L. Ducimetière, N. Garrel, B. Goddard, V. Mertens, W.J.M. Weterings
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The two LHC injection kicker magnet (MKI) systems produce a kick of 1.3 T-m with a flattop duration variable up to 7860 ns, and rise and fall times of less than 900 ns and 3000 ns, respectively. A beam screen, consisting of a ceramic tube with conductors on the inner wall, is placed in the aperture of the magnets. The conductors provide a path for the image current of the, high intensity, LHC beam and screen the ferrite against wake fields. The conductors initially used gave adequately low beam coupling impedance however inter-conductor discharges occurred during pulsing of the magnet; hence an alternative design was implemented to meet the often conflicting requirements for low beam coupling impedance, fast magnetic field rise-time and good high voltage behaviour. During 2011 the LHC has been operated with high intensity beam, coasting for many hours at a time, resulting in heating of both the ferrite yoke and beam impedance reduction ferrites, of the MKIs. This paper presents an analysis of thermal measurement data and an extrapolation of the heating for future operation; in addition means are discussed for reducing ferrite heating and improving cooling.  
 
TUPPR091 Status of the 160 MeV H Injection into the CERN PSB 2041
 
  • W.J.M. Weterings, B. Balhan, E. Benedetto, J. Borburgh, C. Bracco, C. Carli, B. Goddard, K. Hanke, B. Mikulec, A. Newborough, R. Noulibos, J. Tan
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The 160 MeV H beam from the LINAC4 will be injected into the 4 superimposed rings of the PS Booster (PSB) with an new H charge-exchange injection system. This entails a massive upgrade of the injection region. The hardware requirements and constraints, the performance specifications and the design of the H injection region are described.