Author: Baer, T.     [Bär, T.]
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MOOCB01 Beam-induced Quench Tests of LHC Magnets 52
 
  • M. Sapinski, B. Auchmann, T. Bär, W. Bartmann, M. Bednarek, S. Bozyigit, C. Bracco, R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, V. Chetvertkova, K. Dahlerup-Petersen, B. Dehning, E. Effinger, J. Emery, A. Guerrero, E.B. Holzer, W. Höfle, A. Lechner, A. Priebe, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, R. Schmidt, N.V. Shetty, A.P. Siemko, E. Skordis, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, J. Steckert, J.A. Uythoven, D. Valuch, A.P. Verweij, J. Wenninger, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth, E.N. del Busto
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  At the end of the LHC Run1 a 48-hour quench-test campaign took place to investigate the quench levels of superconducting magnets for loss durations from nanoseconds to tens of seconds. The longitudinal losses produced extended from one meter to hundreds of meters and the number of lost protons varied from 108 to 1013. The results of these and other, previously conducted quench experiments, allow the quench levels of several types of LHC magnets under various loss conditions to be assessed. The quench levels are expected to limit LHC performance in the case of steady-state losses in the interaction regions and also in the case of fast losses initiated by dust particles all around the ring. It is therefore required to accurately adjust beam loss abort thresholds in order to maximize the operation time. A detailed discussion of these quench test results and a proposal for additional tests after the LHC restart is presented.  
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TUPRO016 Machine Protection Challenges for HL-LHC 1039
 
  • R. Schmidt, T. Bär, J. Wenninger, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  LHC operation requires the flawless functioning of the machine protection systems. The energy stored in the beam was progressively increased beyond the 140 MJ range at the end of 2012 at 4 TeV/c. The further increase to 364 MJ expected for 2015 at 6.5 TeV/c should be possible with the existing protection systems. For HL-LHC, additional failure modes are considered. The stored beam energy will increase by another factor of two with respect to nominal and a factor of five more than experienced so far. The maximum beta function will increase. It is planned to install crab cavities in the LHC. With crab cavities, sudden voltage decays within 100 us after e.g. cavity quenches lead to large beam oscillations. Tracking simulations predict trajectory distortions of up to 1.5 σ in the first turn after a sudden drop of the deflecting voltage in a single cavity within 3 turns. The energy of several MJ stored in halo protons that could hit the collimator in case of such events is far above damage level, even if the collimator jaws are made of robust material. In this paper we discuss the challenges for machine protection in the HL-LHC era and possible mitigation strategies.  
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THPRI094 MadX Tracking Simulations to Determine the Beam loss Distributions for the LHC Quench Tests with ADT Excitation 3991
 
  • V. Chetvertkova, B. Auchmann, T. Bär, W. Höfle, A. Priebe, M. Sapinski, R. Schmidt, A.P. Verweij, D. Wollmann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Quench tests with stored beam were performed in 2013 with one of the LHC main focusing quadrupoles to experimentally verify the quench levels for beam losses in the time scales from a few milliseconds to several seconds. A novel technique combining a 3-corrector orbital bump and transverse-damper kicks was used for inducing the beam losses. MadX tracking simulations were an essential step for determining the spatial and angular beam loss distributions during the experiment. These were then used as input for further energy-deposition and quench-level calculations. In this paper the simulated beam-loss distributions for the respective time scales and experimental parameters are presented. Furthermore the sensitivity of the obtained loss-distributions to the variation of key input parameters, which were measured during the experiment, is discussed.  
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