Author: Vincke, H.
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MOAC1 Awake: the Proof-of-principle R&D Experiment at CERN 34
 
  • P. Muggli
    MPI, Muenchen, Germany
  • M. Bernardini, T. Bohl, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, S. Cipiccia, H. Damerau, S. Döbert, V. Fedosseev, E. Feldbaumer, E. Gschwendtner, W. Höfle, A. Pardons, A.V. Petrenko, J.S. Schmidt, M. Turner, H. Vincke
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is a proof-of-principle R&D experiment at CERN. It is the world’s first proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment, using a high-energy proton bunch to drive a plasma wakefield for electron beam acceleration. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the former CNGS facility and uses the 400 GeV proton beam bunches from the SPS, which will be sent to a plasma source. An electron beam will be injected into the plasma cell to probe the accelerating wakefield. Challenging modifications in the area and new installations are required for AWAKE. First proton beam to the experiment is expected late 2016. The accelerating electron physics will start late 2017. This paper gives an overview of the project from a physics and engineering point of view, it describes the main activities, the milestones, the organizational set-up for the project management and coordination.  
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THPF097 Feasibility Study of a New SPS Beam Dump System 3930
 
  • F.M. Velotti, J.L. Abelleira, M.J. Barnes, C. Bracco, E. Carlier, F. Cerutti, K. Cornelis, R. Folch, B. Goddard, V. Kain, M. Meddahi, R.F. Morton, J.A. Osborne, F. Pasdeloup, V. Senaj, G.E. Steele, J.A. Uythoven, H. Vincke
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) presently uses an internal beam dump system with two separate blocks to cleanly dispose of low and high energy beams. In view of the increased beam power and brightness needed for the LHC Injector Upgrade project for High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the performance of this internal beam dump system has been reviewed for future operation. Different possible upgrades of the beam dumping system have been investigated. The initially considered solution for the SPS Beam Dump System is to design a new, dedicated external system, with a dump block in a shielded cavern separated from the machine ring. Unfortunately this solution is not feasible with the present technology. In this paper, the design requirements and the possible solutions are investigated, including considering a new internal beam dump in the Long Straight Section 5 (LSS5).  
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THPF099 Upgrade of the SPS Ion Injection System 3938
 
  • J.A. Uythoven, J. Borburgh, E. Bravin, S. Burger, E. Carlier, J.-M. Cravero, L. Ducimetière, S.S. Gilardoni, B. Goddard, J. Hansen, E.B. Holzer, M. Hourican, T. Kramer, F.L. Maciariello, D. Manglunki, F.-X. Nuiry, A. Perillo Marcone, G.E. Steele, F.M. Velotti, H. Vincke
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  As part of the LHC Injectors Upgrade Project (LIU) the injection system into the SPS will be upgraded for the use with ions. The changes will include the addition of a Pulse Forming Line parallel to the existing PFN to power the kicker magnets MKP-S. With the PFL a reduced magnetic field rise time of 100 ns should be reached. The missing deflection strength will be given by two new septum magnets MSI-V, to be installed between the existing septum MSI and the kickers MKP-S. A dedicated ion dump will be installed downstream of the injection elements. The parameter lists of the elements and studies concerning emittance blow-up coming from the injection system are presented. The feasibility of the 100 ns kicker rise time and the small ripple of the septum power converter are presented. Material studies of the ion dump are presented together with the radiation impact.  
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