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MOPLT005 An Improved Collimation System for the LHC impedance, proton, insertion, beam-losses 536
 
  • R.W. Assmann, O. Aberle, A. Bertarelli, H.-H. Braun, M. Brugger, L. Bruno, O.S. Brüning, S. Calatroni, E. Chiaveri, B. Dehning, A. Ferrari, B. Goddard, E.B. Holzer, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, V. Kain, M. Lamont, M. Mayer, E. Métral, R. Perret, S. Redaelli, T. Risselada, G. Robert-Demolaize, S. Roesler, F. Ruggiero, R. Schmidt, D. Schulte, P. Sievers, V. Vlachoudis, L. Vos, G. Vossenberg, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Geneva
  • I.L. Ajguirei, I. Baishev, I.L. Kurochkin
    IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
  • D. Kaltchev
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
  • H. Tsutsui
    SHI, Tokyo
  The LHC design parameters extend the maximum stored beam energy 2-3 orders of magnitude beyond present experience. The handling of the high-intensity LHC beams in a super-conducting environment requires a high-robustness collimation system with unprecedented cleaning efficiency. For gap closures down to 2mm no beam instabilities may be induced from the collimator impedance. A difficult trade-off between collimator robustness, cleaning efficiency and collimator impedance is encountered. The conflicting LHC requirements are resolved with a phased approach, relying on low Z collimators for maximum robustness and hybrid metallic collimators for maximum performance. Efficiency is further enhanced with an additional cleaning close to the insertion triplets. The machine layouts have been adapted to the new requirements. The LHC collimation hardware is presently under design and has entered into the prototyping and early testing phase. Plans for collimator tests with beam are presented.  
 
MOPLT006 The New Layout of the LHC Cleaning Insertions insertion, impedance, vacuum, optics 539
 
  • R.W. Assmann, O. Aberle, O.S. Brüning, S. Chemli, D. Gasser, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, V. Kain, E. Métral, G. Peon, S. Ramberger, C. Rathjen, T. Risselada, F. Ruggiero, L. Vos
    CERN, Geneva
  • D. Kaltchev
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
  The improved LHC collimation system required significant changes in the layout and design of the warm insertion IR7. Requirements for collimation, optics, impedance, vacuum, and additional infrastructure are described and the adopted layout is discussed. Various design principles have been explored during the re-design, ranging from a regular 90 degree lattice and special low impedance lattices to an option with additional warm quadrupole units that could have extended the usable space for collimator installations in the insertion. The various constraints for the optics and cleaning design in the LHC cleaning insertions are summarized. Magnet positions and collimators were moved significantly, such that a good cleaning efficiency was maintained while impedance was reduced by a factor of two. Metallic phase 2 collimators allow a better efficiency than originally achievable and additional scrapers were allocated. The required infrastructure was specified, including a powerful cooling system for the collimators.  
 
MOPLT008 The Mechanical Design for the LHC Collimators alignment, simulation, beam-losses, vacuum 545
 
  • A. Bertarelli, O. Aberle, R.W. Assmann, E. Chiaveri, T. Kurtyka, M. Mayer, R. Perret, P. Sievers
    CERN, Geneva
  The design of the LHC collimators must comply with the very demanding specifications entailed by the highly energetic beam handled in the LHC: these requirements impose a temperature on the collimating jaws not exceeding 50°C in steady operations and an unparalleled overall geometrical stability of 25micro-m on a 1200 mm span. At the same time, the design phase must meet the challenging deadlines required by the general time schedule. To respond to these tough and sometimes conflicting constraints, the chosen design appeals to a mixture of traditional and innovative technologies, largely drawing from LEP collimator experience. The specifications impose a low-Z material for the collimator jaws, directing the design towards graphite or such novel materials as 3-d Carbon/Carbon composites. An accurate mechanical design has allowed to considerably reduce mechanical play and optimize geometrical stability. Finally, all mechanical studies were supported by in-depth thermo-mechanical analysis concerning temperature distribution, mechanical strength and cooling efficiency.  
 
MOPLT010 Collimation of Heavy Ion Beams in LHC ion, proton, heavy-ion, scattering 551
 
  • H.-H. Braun, R.W. Assmann, A. Ferrari, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jowett
    CERN, Geneva
  • I.A. Pshenichnov
    RAS/INR, Moscow
  The LHC collimation system is designed to cope with requirements of proton beams having 100 times higher beam power than the nominal LHC heavy ion beam. In spite of this, specific problems occur for ion collimation, due to different particle-collimator interaction mechanism for ions and protons. Ions are subject to hadronic fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation, resulting in a non-negligible flux of secondary particles of small angle divergence and Z/A ratios slightly different from the primary beam. These particles are difficult to intercept by the collimation system and can produce significant heat-load in the superconducting magnets when they hit the magnet vacuum chamber. A computer program has been developed to obtain quantitative estimates of the magnitude and location of the particle losses. Hadronic fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation of ions in the collimators were considered within the frameworks of abrasion-ablation and RELDIS models, respectively. Trajectories of the secondary particles in the ring magnet lattice and the distribution of intercept points of these trajectories with the vacuum chamber are computed. Results are given for the present collimation system design and potential improvements are discussed.  
 
MOPLT012 Collimation in the Transfer Lines to the LHC injection, simulation, proton, emittance 554
 
  • H. Burkhardt, B. Goddard, Y. Kadi, V. Kain, W.J.M. Weterings
    CERN, Geneva
  The intensities foreseen for injection into the LHC are over an order of magnitude above the expected damage levels. The TI 2 and TI 8 transfer lines between the SPS and LHC are each about 2.5 km long and comprise many magnet families. Despite planned power supply surveillance and interlocks, failure modes exist which could result in uncontrolled beam loss and serious transfer line or LHC equipment damage. We describe the collimation system in the transfer lines that has been designed to provide passive protection against damage at injection. Results of simulations to develop a conceptual design are presented. The optical and physical installation constraints are described, and the resulting element locations and expected system performance presented, in terms of the phase space coverage, local element temperature rises and the characteristics of the beam transmitted into the LHC.  
 
MOPLT031 LHC Abort Gap Filling by Proton Beam radiation, injection, proton, synchrotron 611
 
  • E.N. Shaposhnikova, S.D. Fartoukh, J.-B. Jeanneret
    CERN, Geneva
  Safe operation of the LHC beam dump relies on the possibility of firing the abort kicker at any moment during beam operation. One of the necessary conditions for this is that the number of particles in the abort gap should be below some critical level defined by quench limits. Various scenarios can lead to particles filling the abort gap. The relevant time scales associated with these scenarios are estimated for top energy where the synchrotron radiation losses are not negligible for uncaptured particle motion. Two cases are considered, both with RF on and RF off. The equilibrium distribution of lost particles in the abort gap defines the requirements for maximum tolerable relative loss rate and as a consequence the minimum acceptable longitudinal lifetime of the proton beam in collision.  
 
MOPLT114 Modeling of Beam Loss in Tevatron and Backgrounds in the BTeV Detector beam-losses, hadron, shielding, background 803
 
  • A. Drozhdin, N. Mokhov
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  Detailed STRUCT simulations are performed of beam loss rates in the vicinity of the BTeV detector in the Tevatron C0 interaction region due to beam-gas nuclear elastic interactions, outscattering from the collimator jaws and an accidental abort kicker prefire. Corresponding showers induced in the machine components and background rates on the BTeV Detector are modeled with the MARS14 code. It is shown that a steel mask located in front of the last four dipoles upstream the C0 can reduce the accelerator-related background rates in the detector by an order of magnitude.  
 
MOPLT115 Numerical Simulations and Analyses of Beam-Induced Damage to the Tevatron Collimators simulation, proton, dipole, superconducting-magnet 806
 
  • A. Drozhdin, N. Mokhov, D. Still
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  • V. Samulyak
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  Numerical simulations are performed to analyze the Tevatron collimator damage happened in December 2003 that was induced by a failure in the CDF Roman Pot detector positioning during the collider run. Possible scenarios of this failure resulted in an excessive halo generation and superconducting magnet quench are studied via realistic simulations using the STRUCT and MARS14 codes. It is shown that the interaction of a misbehaved proton beam with the collimators result in a rapid local heating and a possible damage. A detailed consideration is given to the ablation process for the collimator material taking place in high vacuum. It is shown that ablation of tungsten (primary collimator) and stainless steel (secondary collimator) jaws results in creation of a groove in the jaw surface as was observed after the December's accident.  
 
TUPLT143 Studies of Beam Loss Control on the ISIS Synchrotron proton, simulation, beam-losses, synchrotron 1464
 
  • C.M. Warsop
    CCLRC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  The ISIS Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK produces intense neutron and muon beams for condensed matter research. The ISIS 800 MeV Proton Synchrotron presently provides up to 2.5·1013 protons per pulse at 50 Hz, corresponding to a mean power of 160 kW. A dual harmonic RF system upgrade is expected to increase the intensity and power by about 50%. The tighter constraints expected for higher intensity running are motivating a detailed study of beam loss distributions and the main factors affecting their control. Main aims are maximising the localisation of activation in the collector straight, and minimising risk of damage to machine components. The combination of experimental work, developments of the loss measurement systems, and simulation studies are summarised. Key factors considered include: the effects of primary collector geometry and material; the nature of the beam loss; and methods for experimentally determining spatial loss distributions.  
 
WEPLT006 Expected Performance and Beam-based Optimization of the LHC Collimation System proton, injection, betatron, insertion 1825
 
  • R.W. Assmann, E.B. Holzer, J.-B. Jeanneret, V. Kain, S. Redaelli, G. Robert-Demolaize, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Geneva
  The cleaning efficiency requirements in the LHC are 2-3 orders of magnitude beyond the requirements at other super-conducting circular colliders. The achievable ideal cleaning efficiency in the LHC is presented and the deteriorating effects of various physics processes and imperfections are discussed in detail for the improved LHC collimation system. The longitudinal distribution of proton losses downstream of the betatron cleaning system are evaluated with a realistic aperture model of the LHC. The results from simplified tracking studies are compared to simulations with complete physics and error models. Possibilities for beam-based optimization of collimator settings are described.  
 
THPKF063 Parameters of X-ray Radiation Emitted by Compton Sources electron, laser, scattering, photon 2409
 
  • E.V. Bulyak, V. Skomorokhov
    NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
  Presented are results of analytical study on X–ray beam parameters generated in the Compton storage rings. A model with the given circulating electron bunch parameters and the laser splash as well is considered. For this model, the total yield of x–ray quanta is derived as a function of the crossing angle and geometric dimensions of both the bunch and splash. Also spectral characteristics of emitting x–ray beam are evaluated with account for the collimating conditions and both the angular and energy spreads in the bunch. As is shown the width of x–ray energy spectrum is narrowest for the x-ray beam collimated along the bunch orbit. With increasing the scattering angle (with respect to the bunch orbit) the spectrum of emitting quanta is widening. Problems of x-ray beam generation with required energy and brightness with the Compton storage rings are discussed.  
 
THPLT012 Design of the Beam Loss Monitoring System for the LHC Ring beam-losses, quadrupole, proton, monitoring 2487
 
  • E.B. Holzer, B. Dehning, E. Effinger, G. Ferioli, J.L. Gonzalez, E. Gschwendtner, G. Guaglio, M. Hodgson, V. Prieto, C. Zamantzas
    CERN, Geneva
  The beam loss monitoring (BLM) system of the LHC is one of the most critical elements for the protection of the LHC. It must prevent the super conducting magnets from quenches and the machine components from damages, caused by beam losses. It helps in the identification of the loss mechanism by measuring the loss pattern. Special detectors will be used for the setup and control of the collimators. Furthermore, it will be an important tool during machine setup and studies. The specification requirements of the BLM system include a very high reliability