IPAC2015 - List of Authors (Sørensen, C.B.)

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MOPTY057	Feasibility Study of Monitoring the Population of the CERN-LHC Abort Gap with Diamond Based Particle Detectors	1065
	O. Stein, F. Burkart, B. Dehning, R. Schmidt, C.B. Sørensen, D. Wollmann CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	At the end of a physics fill and in case of a failure, the LHC beams must be extracted and transferred through a 750m long line to the beam dump block. During the rise of the extraction kickers to their full strength a particle-free abort gap, with a length of 3 us in the LHC filling pattern, is required to prevent beam losses that could lead to substantial quenching of magnets, with a risk of damage. Therefore the particle population in the abort gap, which is mainly due to un-bunched beam, is monitored. Above a certain threshold an active cleaning by excitation of betatron oscillations with the transverse feedback system is initiated. This paper describes a novel method of monitoring the abort gap population using diamond particle detectors for detecting the interactions of beam in the abort gap with neon gas, injected in the beam pipe. Two different layouts of the system and the expected interaction and detection rates are discussed.
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MOPTY058	Response of Polycrystalline Diamond Particle Detectors Measured with a High Intensity Electron Beam	1069
	O. Stein, F. Burkart, B. Dehning, R. Schmidt, C.B. Sørensen, D. Wollmann CERN, Geneva, Switzerland E. Griesmayer CIVIDEC Instrumentation, Wien, Austria
	Comprehensive understanding of beam losses in the LHC is required to ensure full machine protection and efficient operation. The existing BLM system using ionization chambers is not adequate to resolve losses with a time resolution below some 10 us. Ionization chambers are also not adequate to measure very large transient losses, e.g. beam impacting on collimators. Diamond particle detectors with bunch-by-bunch resolution have therefore been used in LHC to measure fast particle losses with a time resolution down to a level of single bunches. Diamond detectors have also successfully been used for material damage studies in other facilities, e.g. HiRadMat at the CERN-SPS. To fully understand their potential, such detectors were characterized with an electron beam at the BTF in LNF INFN Italy, with bunch intensities from 10³ to 10⁹ electrons. The detector response and efficiency has been measured with a 50 Ω and a 1 Ω read-out system. This paper describes the experimental setup and the results of the experiment. In particular, the responses of three samples of 100 um single-crystalline diamond detectors and two samples of 500 um polycrystalline diamond detectors are presented.
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Feasibility Study of Monitoring the Population of the CERN-LHC Abort Gap with Diamond Based Particle Detectors

1065

O. Stein, F. Burkart, B. Dehning, R. Schmidt, C.B. Sørensen, D. Wollmann
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

At the end of a physics fill and in case of a failure, the LHC beams must be extracted and transferred through a 750m long line to the beam dump block. During the rise of the extraction kickers to their full strength a particle-free abort gap, with a length of 3 us in the LHC filling pattern, is required to prevent beam losses that could lead to substantial quenching of magnets, with a risk of damage. Therefore the particle population in the abort gap, which is mainly due to un-bunched beam, is monitored. Above a certain threshold an active cleaning by excitation of betatron oscillations with the transverse feedback system is initiated. This paper describes a novel method of monitoring the abort gap population using diamond particle detectors for detecting the interactions of beam in the abort gap with neon gas, injected in the beam pipe. Two different layouts of the system and the expected interaction and detection rates are discussed.

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MOPTY058

Response of Polycrystalline Diamond Particle Detectors Measured with a High Intensity Electron Beam

1069

O. Stein, F. Burkart, B. Dehning, R. Schmidt, C.B. Sørensen, D. Wollmann
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
E. Griesmayer
CIVIDEC Instrumentation, Wien, Austria

Comprehensive understanding of beam losses in the LHC is required to ensure full machine protection and efficient operation. The existing BLM system using ionization chambers is not adequate to resolve losses with a time resolution below some 10 us. Ionization chambers are also not adequate to measure very large transient losses, e.g. beam impacting on collimators. Diamond particle detectors with bunch-by-bunch resolution have therefore been used in LHC to measure fast particle losses with a time resolution down to a level of single bunches. Diamond detectors have also successfully been used for material damage studies in other facilities, e.g. HiRadMat at the CERN-SPS. To fully understand their potential, such detectors were characterized with an electron beam at the BTF in LNF INFN Italy, with bunch intensities from 10³ to 10⁹ electrons. The detector response and efficiency has been measured with a 50 Ω and a 1 Ω read-out system. This paper describes the experimental setup and the results of the experiment. In particular, the responses of three samples of 100 um single-crystalline diamond detectors and two samples of 500 um polycrystalline diamond detectors are presented.

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