IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Talach, M.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPS093	Automatic Measurement System for Electrical Verification of the LHC Superconducting Circuits	1756
	A. Kotarba, M. Bednarek, P. Jurkiewicz, J. Ludwin, M. Talach IFJ-PAN, Kraków, Poland R. Mompo CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	In the LHC machine, superconducting magnet circuits are used on a very large scale. The circuits, more than 1600, are all equipped with a complex set of instrumentation required for safe operation and diagnostics. The length of many circuits exceed 3 km. Due to risks of accidental damages during transport and assembly or misconnection of the circuits’ auxiliary components, it is necessary to perform an Electrical Quality Assurance (ELQA) campaign after every major intervention on a circuit and also after each thermal cycle of the machine. In order to be able to perform reliable tests on a circuit within a short time frame, a highly extensible automated mobile test system was designed and built. Four of these instruments were successfully used during the Hardware Commissioning phases of the LHC. This paper describes the hardware solutions used in the test system.

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Automatic Measurement System for Electrical Verification of the LHC Superconducting Circuits

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A. Kotarba, M. Bednarek, P. Jurkiewicz, J. Ludwin, M. Talach
IFJ-PAN, Kraków, Poland
R. Mompo
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In the LHC machine, superconducting magnet circuits are used on a very large scale. The circuits, more than 1600, are all equipped with a complex set of instrumentation required for safe operation and diagnostics. The length of many circuits exceed 3 km. Due to risks of accidental damages during transport and assembly or misconnection of the circuits’ auxiliary components, it is necessary to perform an Electrical Quality Assurance (ELQA) campaign after every major intervention on a circuit and also after each thermal cycle of the machine. In order to be able to perform reliable tests on a circuit within a short time frame, a highly extensible automated mobile test system was designed and built. Four of these instruments were successfully used during the Hardware Commissioning phases of the LHC. This paper describes the hardware solutions used in the test system.