Author: Quaranta, E.
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TUPTY024 Updated Simulation Studies of Damage Limit of LHC Tertiary Collimators 2053
 
  • E. Quaranta, A. Bertarelli, R. Bruce, F. Carra, F. Cerutti, P. Gradassi, A. Lechner, S. Redaelli, E. Skordis
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The tertiary collimators (TCTs) in the LHC, installed in front of the experiments, in standard operation intercept fractions of 103 halo particles. However, they risk to be hit by high-intensity primary beams in case of asynchronous beam dump. TCT damage thresholds were initially inferred from results of destructive tests on a TCT jaw, supported by numerical simulations, assuming simplified impact scenarios with one single bunch hitting the jaw with a given impact parameter. In this paper, more realistic failure conditions, including a train of bunches and taking into account the full collimation hierarchy, are used to derive updated damage limits. The results are used to update the margins in the collimation hierarchy and could thus potentially have an influence on the LHC performance.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-TUPTY024  
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TUPTY028 Collimator Layouts for HL-LHC in the Experimental Insertions 2064
 
  • R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, L.S. Esposito, J.M. Jowett, A. Lechner, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, M. Schaumann, E. Skordis, G.E. Steele
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • H. Garcia Morales, R. Kwee-Hinzmann
    JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
 
  This paper presents the layout of collimators for HL-LHC in the experimental insertions. On the incoming beam, we propose to install additional tertiary collimators to protect potential new aperture bottlenecks in cells 4 and 5, which in addition reduce the experimental background. For the outgoing beam, the layout of the present LHC with three physics debris absorbers gives sufficient protection for high-luminosity proton operation. However, collisional processes for heavy ions cause localized beam losses with the potential to quench magnets. To alleviate these losses, an installation of dispersion suppressor collimators is proposed.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-TUPTY028  
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TUPTY029 Collimation Cleaning at the LHC with Advanced Secondary Collimator Materials 2068
 
  • E. Quaranta, R. Bruce, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, A. Rossi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The LHC collimation system must ensure efficient beam halo cleaning in all machine conditions. The first run in 2010-2013 showed that the LHC performance may be limited by collimator material-related concerns, such as the contribution from the present carbon-based secondary collimators to the machine impedance and, consequently, to the beam instability. Novel materials based on composites are currently under development for the next generation of LHC collimators to address these limitations. Particle tracking simulations of collimation efficiency were performed using the Sixtrack code and a material database updated to model these composites. In this paper, the simulation results will be presented with the aim of studying the effect of the advanced collimators on the LHC beam cleaning.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-TUPTY029  
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