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MOPAB120 Beam Instrumentation for the CERN LINAC4 and PSB Half Sector Test 408
 
  • F. Roncarolo, J.C. Allica Santamaria, M. Bozzolan, C. Bracco, S. Burger, G.J. Focker, G. Guidoboni, L.K. Jensen, B. Mikulec, A. Navarro Fernandez, U. Raich, J.B. Ruiz, L. Søby, J. Tan, W. Viganò, C. Vuitton, C. Zamantzas
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • T. Hofmann
    Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
 
  The construction, installation and initial commissioning of CERN's LINAC4 was completed in 2016 with H ions successfully accelerated to its top energy of 160 MeV. The accelerator is equipped with a large number of beam diagnostic systems that are essential to monitor, control and optimize the beam parameters. A general overview of the installed systems and their functional specifications will be followed by a summary of the most relevant results. This includes transverse profile monitors (wire scanners, wire grids and a laser profile monitor), beam position and phase monitors (whose ToF measurements were essential for adjusting RF cavity parameters), beam loss monitors, beam current transformers and longitudinal beam shape monitors. This contribution will also cover the beam instrumentation for the so-called PSB Half Sector Test, which has been temporarily installed in the LINAC4 transfer line to study H stripping efficiency. At this facility it was possible to test the new H0/H beam current monitor, designed to monitor the stripping efficiency and an essential element of the beam interlock system when the LINAC4 is connected to the PSB in 2019.  
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MOPIK041 Commissioning of the Stripping Foil Units for the Upgrade of the PSB H Injection System 595
 
  • C. Bracco, S. Burger, V. Forte, B. Goddard, G. Guidoboni, L.O. Jorat, B. Mikulec, A. Navarro Fernandez, R. Noulibos, F. Roncarolo, P. Van Trappen, W.J.M. Weterings
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The PSB will be extensively upgraded during the next long shutdown of the CERN accelerator complex, to double the brightness of the stored beams. The existing multi-turn injection will be replaced by a charge exchange system designed for the 160 MeV hydrogen ions provided by Linac4. Part of the injection equipment has been temporarily installed along the Linac4-to-PSB transfer line and tested with beam. This allowed to gain experience with the system, test the related diagnostics and benchmark calculations with measurements. An additional permanent stripping foil test stand is also installed right after the Linac and will be used to characterise new foils for possible future applications. The main outcomes, issues and applied or planned mitigations are presented for both installations.  
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MOPIK047 Commissioning and Results of the Half-Sector Test Installation with 160 MeV H beam from Linac4 619
 
  • B. Mikulec, D. Aguglia, J.C. Allica Santamaria, C. Baud, C. Bracco, S. Burger, G. Guidoboni, L.O. Jorat, C. Martin, A. Navarro Fernandez, R. Noulibos, F. Roncarolo, J.L. Sanchez Alvarez, J. Tan, T. Todorcevic, P. Van Trappen, W.J.M. Weterings, C. Zamantzas
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  During the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) at CERN in 2019/20, the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) will undergo a profound upgrade in the framework of the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) project involving also the connection to the new Linac4 injector. The 160 MeV Linac4 H' injection entails a complete replacement of the PSB injection section, including a stripping foil system, injection chicane, an H0/H' dump and novel beam instrumentation. The equivalent of half of this new injection chicane was temporarily installed in the Linac4 transfer line to evaluate the performance of the equipment and prepare controls, interlocks and applications for the connection. Outcomes of this so-called Half-Sector Test (HST) are presented in this paper.  
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TUPIK032 AWAKE Proton Beam Commissioning 1747
 
  • J.S. Schmidt, D. Barrientos, M. Barros Marin, B. Biskup, A. Boccardi, T.B. Bogey, T. Bohl, C. Bracco, S. Cettour Cave, H. Damerau, V. Fedosseev, F. Friebel, S.J. Gessner, A. Goldblatt, E. Gschwendtner, L.K. Jensen, V. Kain, T. Lefèvre, S. Mazzoni, J.C. Molendijk, A. Pardons, C. Pasquino, S.F. Rey, H. Vincke, U. Wehrle
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • J.T. Moody
    MPI-P, München, Germany
  • K. Rieger
    MPI, Muenchen, Germany
 
  AWAKE will be the first proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment worldwide. The facility is located in the former CNGS area at CERN and will include a proton, laser and electron beam line merging in a 10 m long plasma cell, which is followed by the experimental diagnostics. In the first phase of the AWAKE physics program, which started at the end of 2016, the effect of the plasma on a high energy proton beam will be studied. A proton bunch is expected to experience the so called self-modulation instability, which leads to the creation of micro-bunches within the long proton bunch. The plasma channel is created in a rubidium vapor via field ionization by a TW laser pulse. This laser beam has to overlap with the proton beam over the full length of the plasma cell, resulting in tight requirements for the stability of the proton beam at the plasma cell in the order of ~ 0.1 mm. In this paper the beam commissioning results of the ~810 m long transfer line for proton bunches with 3·1011 protons/bunch and a momentum of 400 GeV/c will be presented with a focus on the challenges of the parallel operation of the laser and proton beam.  
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WEPIK033 LHC Beam Dump Performance in View of the High Luminosity Upgrade 2999
 
  • C. Wiesner, W. Bartmann, C. Bracco, E. Carlier, L. Ducimetière, M.I. Frankl, M.A. Fraser, B. Goddard, T. Kramer, A. Lechner, N. Magnin, S. Mazzoni, M. Meddahi, V. Senaj
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project will increase the total beam intensity in the LHC by nearly a factor of two. Analysis and follow-up of recent operational issues as well as dedicated studies of the LHC Beam Dump System (LBDS) have been carried out to ensure the safe operation with HL-LHC parameters and to decide on possible hardware upgrades to meet the HL-LHC requirements. The fail-safe design must ensure the LBDS performance also for abnormal operation such as asynchronous beam dumps or failing dilution kickers. In this paper, we report on newly observed failure scenarios as the erratic firing of more than one dilution kicker, and discuss their consequences as well as possible mitigation measures in view of the high luminosity upgrade.  
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WEPVA035 The PSB Operational Scenario with Longitudinal Painting Injection in the Post-LIU Era 3331
 
  • V. Forte, S.C.P. Albright, M.E. Angoletta, P. Baudrenghien, E. Benedetto, A. Blas, C. Bracco, C. Carli, A. Findlay, R. Garoby, G. Hagmann, A.M. Lombardi, B. Mikulec, M.M. Paoluzzi, J.L. Sanchez Alvarez, R. Wegner
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Longitudinal painting has been presented as an elegant technique to fill the longitudinal phase space at injection to the CERN PSB once it is connected with the new Linac4. Painting brings several advantages related to a more controlled longitudinal filamentation, lower peak line density and beating reduction, resulting in a smaller space-charge tune spread. This could be an advantage especially for high intensity beams (> 6·1012 protons per bunch) to limit losses on the transverse acceptance of the machine. This paper presents an overview on the possible advantages of the technique for operational and test beams, taking care of the hardware limitations and possible failure scenarios.  
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WEPVA108 Operational Feedback and Analysis of Current and Future Designs of the Injection Protection Absorbers in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN 3517
 
  • D. Carbajo Perez, N. Biancacci, C. Bracco, G. Bregliozzi, M. Calviani, M.I. Frankl, L. Gentini, S.S. Gilardoni, G. Iadarola, I. Lamas Garcia, A. Lechner, A. Perillo-Marcone, B. Salvant
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Two injection protection absorbers, so-called TDIs (Target Dump Injection), are installed close to Interaction Points IP2 and IP8 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) right downstream of the injection kicker magnets (MKI). Malfunction or timing errors in the latter lead to wrong steering of the beam, which must then be intercepted by the TDI to avoid downstream equipment (which includes superconducting magnets) damage. In recent years, MKI failures during operation have brought to light opportunities for improvement of the TDI. The upgrade of this absorber, so-called TDIS (where S stands for segmented), is conceived as part of the High Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC) project and those operational issues are taken into account for its design. The present document describes not only the aspects related to the current TDI performance and their impact in its successor's design but also the key modifications to cope with the stronger requirements associated to the higher luminosity goal.  
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