Author: Moreno, H.
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WEPAB338 Amorphous Carbon Coating in SPS 3475
 
  • W. Vollenberg, P. Chiggiato, P. Costa Pinto, P. Cruikshank, H. Moreno, C. Pasquino, J. Perez Espinos, M. Taborelli
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Within the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) project, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) needs to be upgraded to inject into the LHC higher intensity and brighter 25-ns bunch spaced beams. To mitigate the Electron Multipacting (E.M.) phenomenon, a well-known limiting factor for high-intensity positively charged beams, CERN developed carbon coatings with a low Secondary Electron Yield (SEY). During the 2016 & 2017 year-end technical stops, such coatings were deposited on the inner wall of the vacuum chambers of some SPS quadrupole and dipole magnets by a dedicated in-situ setup. A much larger scale deployment was implemented during the Long Shutdown 2 (2019-2020) to coat all beam pipes of focussing quadrupoles (QF) and their adjacent short straight sections. In this contribution, we remind the motivation of the project, and present the results and the quality control of the carbon coating campaign during the latter phase of implementation.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB338  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 16 June 2021       issue date ※ 13 August 2021  
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