Author: Salvachua, B.
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WEPAB021 Development and Testing of a Cherenkov Beam Loss Monitor in CLEAR Facility 2640
 
  • S. Benitez Berrocal, E. Effinger, W. Farabolini, A. Gilardi, P. Korysko, E. Lima, B. Salvachua, W. Viganò
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • P. Lane
    University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
 
  Beam Loss Monitors are fundamental diagnostic systems in particle accelerators. Beam losses are measured by a wide range of detectors with excellent results; most of these devices are used to measure local beam losses. However, in some accelerators there is the need to measure beam losses continuously localized over longer distances i.e., several tens of meters. For this reason, a beam loss detector based on long optical fibres is now under study. As part of the design, several simulations, comparing different possible detection scenarios, have been performed in FLUKA and bench-marked with experimental data. An experimental campaign was performed with an electron beam in the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) in November 2020. The light emitted from the optical fibre was captured using Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) coupled at each fibre’s end. In this poster, the first results of a beam loss detector based on the capture of Cherenkov photons generated by charged particles inside multimode silica fibres are presented.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB021  
About • paper received ※ 18 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 21 June 2021       issue date ※ 31 August 2021  
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WEPAB023 Crystal Collimation of 20 MJ Heavy-Ion Beams at the HL-LHC 2644
 
  • M. D’Andrea, R. Bruce, M. Di Castro, I. Lamas Garcia, A. Masi, D. Mirarchi, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, B. Salvachua, W. Scandale
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • F. Galluccio
    INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  • L.J. Nevay
    Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
 
  The concept of crystal collimation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) relies on the use of bent crystals that can deflect halo particles by a much larger angle than the standard multi-stage collimation system. Following an extensive campaign of studies and performance validations, a number of crystal collimation tests with Pb ion beams were performed in 2018 at energies up to 6.37 Z TeV. This paper describes the procedure and outcomes of these tests, the most important of which being the demonstration of the capability of crystal collimation to improve the cleaning efficiency of the machine. These results led to the inclusion of crystal collimation into the LHC baseline for operation with ion beams in Run 3 as well as for the HL-LHC era. A first set of operational settings was defined.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB023  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 23 June 2021       issue date ※ 27 August 2021  
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