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| TUPD003 |
Upgrading the Fast Extraction Kicker System in SPS LSS6
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- M. J. Barnes, L. Ducimetière, B. Goddard, J. A. Uythoven
CERN, Geneva
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A fast extraction system, located in the LSS6 region of the CERN SPS accelerator, transfers 450 GeV/c protons, as well as ions, via the transfer line TI 2 towards the LHC. The system includes three travelling wave kicker magnets, all powered in series, energised by a single Pulse Forming Network (PFN) and terminated by a short circuit. The specification for the system requires a kick flattop of 7800 ns duration with a ripple of not more than ±0.5%. Recent measurements with beam show that the ±0.5% kick specification is achieved over the initial 7100 ns of the kick flattop; however the ripple over 7800 ns is ±0.7%. Electrical measurements have been carried out on each of the three magnets: these have been compared with the beam measurements and the contribution of each magnet to the detailed shape of the flattop kick has been determined. This paper reports the results of measurements and describes the plans to upgrade the system to fully meet the kick specification.
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| WEPP066 |
Results from the LHC Beam Dump Reliability Run
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- J. A. Uythoven, A. Antoine, E. Carlier, F. Castronuovo, L. Ducimetière, E. Gallet, B. Goddard, N. Magnin, H. Verhagen
CERN, Geneva
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The LHC Beam Dumping System is one of the vital elements of the LHC Machine Protection System and has to operate reliably every time a beam dump request is made. Detailed dependability calculations have been made, resulting in expected rates for the different system failure modes. A 'reliability run' of the system, installed in its final configuration in the LHC, has been made to discover infant mortality problems and to compare the occurrence of the measured failure modes with their calculations.
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| THPP113 |
Emittance Growth at LHC Injection from SPS and LHC Kicker Ripple
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- B. Goddard, M. J. Barnes, L. Ducimetière, W. Höfle, G. Kotzian
CERN, Geneva
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Fast pulsed kicker magnets are used to extract beams from the SPS and inject them into the LHC. The kickers exhibit time-varying structure in the pulse shape which translates into small offsets with respect to the closed orbit at LHC injection. The LHC damper systems will be used to damp out the resulting betatron oscillations, to keep the growth in the transverse emittance within specification. This paper describes the results of the measurements of the kicker ripple for the two systems, both in the laboratory and with beam, and presents the simulated performance of the transverse damper in terms of beam emittance growth. The implications for LHC operation are discussed.
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