Author: Briz Monago, J.A.
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WEPVA109 Design of the New PS Internal Dumps, in the Framework of the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) Project 3521
 
  • G. Romagnoli, J.A. Briz Monago, M. Calviani, J.J. Esala, E. Grenier-Boley, A. Masi, F.-X. Nuiry, A. Perillo-Marcone, T. Polzin, V. Vlachoudis
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  For the LHC injectors upgrade (LIU) at CERN, the two PS (Proton Synchrotron) dumps will be redesigned and upgraded for the new high intensity beams. The EN-STI group is in charge of the design and installation of the new dumps, foreseen for the next CERN's Long Shutdown in 2019-2020. As internal dumps, the PS dumps have been installed in 1975 directly in the PS vacuum ring between the main bending magnets and they are operating since then. The dumps enter the beam line when requested by beam operation, with a 6 kg Cu block moved quickly with a spring-based mechanism. This Cu block is not expected to survive the impact of the future beams. A new design is presented for the dump core based on FLUKA-ANSYS coupled simulations. The dumps should work with any PS beam foreseen within LIU, be water cooled in ultra-high vacuum medium, and enter the beam chamber in less than 250 ms. The dump should be used 200000 times per year, with a lifetime of 20 years, with almost zero maintenance. The new challenging design is based on an oscillating thin blade shaving turn after turn the circulating beam. The material considered for the blade are Cu, Ti or CuCrZr with embedded cooling channels.  
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WEPVA110 Analysis and Operational Feedback on the New Design of the High Energy Beam Dump in the CERN SPS 3524
 
  • P. Rios Rodriguez, J.A. Briz Monago, M. Calviani, K. Cornelis, S. De Man, R. Esposito, S.S. Gilardoni, B. Goddard, J.L. Grenard, D. Grenier, M. Grieco, J. Humbert, V. Kain, F.M. Leaux, C. Pasquino, A. Perillo-Marcone, J.R.F. Poujol, S. Sgobba, D. Steyart, F.M. Velotti, V. Vlachoudis
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) high-energy internal dump (Target Internal Dump Vertical Graphite, known as TIDVG) is required to intercept beams from 102 to 450 GeV. The equipment installed in 2014 (TIDVG#3) featured an absorbing core composed of different materials surrounded by a water-cooled copper jacket, which hold the UHV of the machine. An inspection of a previous equipment (TIDVG#2) in 2013 revealed significant beam induced damage to the aluminium section of the dump, which required imposing operational limitations to minimise the risk of reproducing this phenomenon. Additionally, in 2016 a vacuum leak was detected in the dump assembly, which imposed further limitations, i.e. a reduction of the beam intensity that could be dumped per SPS supercycle. This paper presents a new design (TIDVG#4), which focuses on improving the operational robustness of the device. Moreover, thanks to the added instrumentation, a careful analysis of its performance (both experimentally and during operation) will be possible. These studies will help validating technical solutions for the design of the future SPS dump to be installed during CERN's Long Shutdown 2 in 2020 (TIDVG#5).  
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