IPAC2014 - List of Authors (Carra, F.)

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MOPRO043	Handling 1 MW Losses with the LHC Collimation System	174
	B. Salvachua, R. Bruce, F. Carra, M. Cauchi, E.B. Holzer, W. Höfle, D. Jacquet, L. Lari, D. Mirarchi, E. Nebot Del Busto, S. Redaelli, A. Rossi, M. Sapinski, R. Schmidt, G. Valentino, D. Valuch, J. Wenninger, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth CERN, Geneva, Switzerland M. Cauchi UoM, Msida, Malta L. Lari IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	Funding: Research supported by EU FP7 HiLumi LHC (Grant agree. 284404) The LHC superconducting magnets in the dispersion suppressor of IR7 are the most exposed to beam losses leaking from the betatron collimation system and represent the main limitation for the halo cleaning. In 2013, quench tests were performed at 4 TeV to improve the quench limit estimates, which determine the maximum allowed beam loss rate for a given collimation cleaning. The main goal of the collimation quench test was to try to quench the magnets by increasing losses at the collimators. Losses of up to 1 MW over a few seconds were generated by blowing up the beam, achieving total losses of about 5.8 MJ. These controlled losses exceeded by a factor 2 the collimation design value, and the magnets did not quench.
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MOPRO116	Mechanical Engineering and Design of Novel Collimators for HL-LHC	369
	F. Carra, A. Bertarelli, A. Dallocchio, L. Gentini, P. Gradassi, A. Manousos, N. Mariani, G. Maîtrejean, N. Mounet, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	In view of LHC intensity upgrades, collimator materials may become a limit to the machine performance: the high RF impedance of Carbon-Carbon composites can lead to beam instabilities, while the Tungsten alloy adopted in tertiary collimators exhibits low robustness in case of beam-induced accidents. An R&D program has been pursued to develop new materials overcoming such limitations. Molybdenum-Graphite, in addition to its outstanding thermal conductivity, can be coated with pure molybdenum, reducing collimator impedance by a factor of 10. A new secondary collimator is being designed around this novel composite. New high-melting materials are also proposed to improve the robustness of tertiary collimators. All the new collimators will be equipped with BPMs, significantly enhancing the alignment speed and the beta-star reach. This implies additional constraints of space, as well as detailed static and fatigue calculations on cables and connectors. This paper describes the mechanical design and the engineering calculations of such future collimators, focusing on the study via state-of-the-art numerical methods of interactions between the particle beams and the new materials adopted.
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Handling 1 MW Losses with the LHC Collimation System

174

B. Salvachua, R. Bruce, F. Carra, M. Cauchi, E.B. Holzer, W. Höfle, D. Jacquet, L. Lari, D. Mirarchi, E. Nebot Del Busto, S. Redaelli, A. Rossi, M. Sapinski, R. Schmidt, G. Valentino, D. Valuch, J. Wenninger, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
M. Cauchi
UoM, Msida, Malta
L. Lari
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

Funding: Research supported by EU FP7 HiLumi LHC (Grant agree. 284404)
The LHC superconducting magnets in the dispersion suppressor of IR7 are the most exposed to beam losses leaking from the betatron collimation system and represent the main limitation for the halo cleaning. In 2013, quench tests were performed at 4 TeV to improve the quench limit estimates, which determine the maximum allowed beam loss rate for a given collimation cleaning. The main goal of the collimation quench test was to try to quench the magnets by increasing losses at the collimators. Losses of up to 1 MW over a few seconds were generated by blowing up the beam, achieving total losses of about 5.8 MJ. These controlled losses exceeded by a factor 2 the collimation design value, and the magnets did not quench.

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MOPRO116

Mechanical Engineering and Design of Novel Collimators for HL-LHC

369

F. Carra, A. Bertarelli, A. Dallocchio, L. Gentini, P. Gradassi, A. Manousos, N. Mariani, G. Maîtrejean, N. Mounet, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In view of LHC intensity upgrades, collimator materials may become a limit to the machine performance: the high RF impedance of Carbon-Carbon composites can lead to beam instabilities, while the Tungsten alloy adopted in tertiary collimators exhibits low robustness in case of beam-induced accidents. An R&D program has been pursued to develop new materials overcoming such limitations. Molybdenum-Graphite, in addition to its outstanding thermal conductivity, can be coated with pure molybdenum, reducing collimator impedance by a factor of 10. A new secondary collimator is being designed around this novel composite. New high-melting materials are also proposed to improve the robustness of tertiary collimators. All the new collimators will be equipped with BPMs, significantly enhancing the alignment speed and the beta-star reach. This implies additional constraints of space, as well as detailed static and fatigue calculations on cables and connectors. This paper describes the mechanical design and the engineering calculations of such future collimators, focusing on the study via state-of-the-art numerical methods of interactions between the particle beams and the new materials adopted.

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