Author: Höfle, W.
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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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MOPRO031 Abort Gap Cleaning for LHC Run 2 138
 
  • J.A. Uythoven, A. Boccardi, E. Bravin, B. Goddard, G.H. Hemelsoet, W. Höfle, D. Jacquet, V. Kain, S. Mazzoni, M. Meddahi, D. Valuch
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • E. Gianfelice-Wendt
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  To minimize the beam losses at the moment of an LHC beam dump the 3 μs long abort gap should contain as few particles as possible. Its population can be minimised by abort gap cleaning using the LHC transverse damper system. The LHC Run 1 experience is briefly recalled; changes foreseen for the LHC Run 2 are presented. They include improvements in the observation of the abort gap population and the mechanism to decide if cleaning is required, changes to the hardware of the transverse dampers to reduce the detrimental effect on the luminosity lifetime and proposed changes to the applied cleaning algorithms.  
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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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MOPRI005 The AWAKE Experimental Facility at CERN 582
 
  • E. Gschwendtner, T. Bohl, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, S. Cipiccia, S. Döbert, V. Fedosseev, E. Feldbaumer, C. Heßler, W. Höfle, M. Martyanov, M. Meddahi, J.A. Osborne, A. Pardons, A.V. Petrenko, H. Vincke
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  AWAKE, an Advanced Wakefield Experiment is launched at CERN to verify the proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration concept. Proton bunches at 400 GeV/c will be extracted from the CERN SPS and sent along a 750m long proton line to the plasma cell, a Rubidium vapour source, where the proton beam drives wakefields reaching accelerating gradients at the order of gigavolt per meter. A high power laser pulse will co-propagate within the proton bunch creating the plasma by ionizing the (initially) neutral gas. An electron beam will be injected into the plasma cell to probe the accelerating wakefield. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the CNGS facility. First proton beam to the plasma cell is expected by end 2016. The design of the experimental area and the integration of the new beam-lines as well as the experimental equipment will be shown. The needed modifications of the infrastructure in the facility will be presented.  
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TUPRI085 Development of a 4 GS/s Intra-bunch Instability Control System for the SPS - Next Steps 1766
 
  • J.D. Fox, J.M. Cesaratto, J.E. Dusatko, K.M. Pollock, C.H. Rivetta, O. Turgut
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • S. De Santis
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • W. Höfle, G. Kotzian, U. Wehrle
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP).
We present the expanded system architecture in development for the control of intra-bunch instabilities in the SPS. Earlier efforts concentrated on validating the performance of a single-bunch demonstration processor. This minimal system was successfully commissioned at the SPS just prior to the LS1 shutdown. The architecture is now in expansion for more complex functionality, specifically multi-bunch control, control during energy ramps, and the expansion of the system front-end dynamic range with more sophisticated orbit offset techniques. Two designs of wideband kicker are being developed for installation and evaluation with the beam. With these GHz bandwidth devices and new RF amplifiers we anticipate being able to excite and control internal motion of the beam consistent with modes expected for Ecloud and TMCI effects. We highlight the expanded features, and present strategies for verifying the behavior of the beam-feedback system in the next series of machine measurements planned after the LS1 shutdown.
 
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TUPRI086 Feedback System Design Techniques for Control of Intra-bunch Instabilities at the SPS 1769
 
  • C.H. Rivetta, J.M. Cesaratto, J.E. Dusatko, J.D. Fox, O. Turgut
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • W. Höfle, G. Kotzian, K.S.B. Li
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract # DE-AC02-76SF00515 and the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP).
The feedback control of intra-bunch instabilities driven by electron-clouds or strong head-tail coupling requires bandwidth sufficient to sense the vertical position and apply multiple corrections within a nanosecond-scale bunch. These requirements impose challenges and limits in the design and implementation of the feedback system. This paper presents model-based design techniques for feedback systems to address the stabilization of the transverse bunch dynamics. These techniques include in the design the effect of noise and signals perturbing the bunch motion. Different controllers are compared based on stability margins and equivalent noise gain between input-output of the processing channel. The controller design uses as example the bunch dynamics defined by the SPS ring including the Q20 optics.
 
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TUPRI087 A Wideband Slotted Kicker Design for SPS Transverse Intra-bunch Feedback 1772
 
  • J.M. Cesaratto, J.D. Fox, C.H. Rivetta
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • D. Alesini, A. Gallo, M. Zobov
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • S. De Santis
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • W. Höfle
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) and by the EU FP7 HiLumi LHC - Grant Agreement 284404.
In order for the SPS to meet the beam intensity demands for the HL-LHC upgrade, control and mitigation of transverse beam instabilities caused by electron cloud and TMCI will be essential. For this purpose a wideband intra-bunch feedback method has been proposed, based on a 4 GS/s front end data acquisition and processing, and on a back end frequency response extending to at least 1 GHz. A slotted type kicker, similar to those used for stochastic cooling, as well as an array of stripline kickers have been considered as the terminal elements of the feedback system. A slotted TEM type kicker has been designed fulfilling the bandwidth and kick strength requirements for the SPS application. In this paper we present an updated version of the design and electromagnetic characteristics, leading into the mechanical design and construction of the kicker occurring later this year.
 
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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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