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MOPAB022 FailSim: A Numerical Toolbox for the Study of Fast Failures and Their Impact on Machine Protection at the CERN Large Hadron Collider simulation, optics, quadrupole, machine-protect 111
 
  • C. Hernalsteens, G. Sterbini, O.K. Tuormaa, C. Wiesner, D. Wollmann
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) foresees to reach a nominal, levelled luminosity of 5·1034 cm-2 s−1 through a higher beam brightness and by using new equipment, such as larger aperture final focusing quadrupole magnets. The HL-LHC upgrade has critical impacts on the machine protection strategy, as the stored beam energy reaches 700 MJ for each of the two beams. Some failure modes of the novel active superconducting magnet protection system of the inner triplet magnets, namely the Coupling-Loss Induced Quench (CLIQ) systems, have been identified as critical. This paper reports on FailSim, a Python-language framework developed to study the machine protection impact of failure cases and their proposed mitigation. It provides seamless integration of the successive phases required by the simulation studies, i.e., verifying the optics, preparing and running a MAD-X instance for multiple particle tracking, processing and analysing the simulation results and summarising them with the relevant plots to provide a solid estimate of the beam losses, their location and time evolution. The paper also presents and discusses the result of its application on the spurious discharge of a CLIQ unit.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB022  
About • paper received ※ 18 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 31 May 2021       issue date ※ 18 August 2021  
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MOPAB023 Experimental Test of a New Method to Verify Retraction Margins Between Dump Absorbers and Tertiary Collimators at the LHC experiment, alignment, emittance, operation 115
 
  • C. Wiesner, W. Bartmann, C. Bracco, R. Bruce, J. Molson, M. Schaumann, C. Staufenbiel, J.A. Uythoven, M. Valette, J. Wenninger, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  The protection of the tertiary collimators (TCTs) and the LHC triplet aperture in case of a so-called asynchronous beam dump relies on the correct retraction between the TCTs and the dump region absorbers. A new method to validate this retraction has been proposed, and a proof-of-principle experiment was performed at the LHC. The method uses a long orbit bump to mimic the change of the beam trajectory caused by an asynchronous firing of the extraction kickers. It can, thus, be performed with circulating beam. This paper reports on the performed beam measurements, compares them with expectations and discusses the potential benefits of the new method for machine protection.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB023  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 25 August 2021       issue date ※ 24 August 2021  
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MOPAB174 Foil Hits Reduction by Minimizing Injection Beam Size at the Foil in J-PARC RCS injection, proton, scattering, operation 590
 
  • P.K. Saha, H. Harada, K. Okabe, F. Tamura, M. Yoshimoto
    JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
  • H. Hotchi
    KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  Funding: Pranab Kumar Saha
The uncontrolled beam loss caused by the foil scattering of the circulating beam during multi-turn charge-exchange injection is one of the main sources for high residual radiation at the injection area of J-PARC 3-GeV rapid cycling synchrotron. We studied to reduce foil hits of the circulating beam by minimizing the vertical injection beam size at the foil and using a smaller vertical foil size. The vertical foil size was reduced according to the injection beam size by maintaining the stripping efficiency. As a result, the number of circulating beam passing through foil was significantly reduced due to smaller foil size. The simulation and measurement results of the foil hits reduction are presented in this paper.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB174  
About • paper received ※ 20 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 31 May 2021       issue date ※ 28 August 2021  
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TUPAB233 Diffusive Models for Nonlinear Beam Dynamics hadron, collider, dynamic-aperture, experiment 1976
 
  • C.E. Montanari, A. Bazzani
    Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
  • M. Giovannozzi, C.E. Montanari
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Diffusive models for representing the nonlinear beam dynamics in a circular accelerator ring have been developed in recent years. The novelty of the work presented here with respect to older approaches is that the functional form of the diffusion coefficient is derived from the time stability estimate of the Nekhoroshev theorem. In this paper, we discuss the latest results obtained for simple models of nonlinear betratron motion.  
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About • paper received ※ 11 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 23 June 2021       issue date ※ 23 August 2021  
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TUPAB329 Pattern Based Parameter Setup of the SNS Linac cavity, linac, DTL, operation 2276
 
  • C.C. Peters
    ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • A.P. Shishlo
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05- 00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Theoretical and practical aspects of beam tuning procedures used for the SNS linac are discussed. The SNS linac includes two sections of beam acceleration. Acceleration in the first section up to 185.5 MeV is done with a room temperature copper linac which consists of both Drift Tube Linac (DTL) and Coupled Cavity Linac (CCL) Radio Frequency (RF) cavities. The second section consists of 81 Superconducting RF (SRF) cavities which accelerate the beam to the final beam energy of 1 GeV. The linac is currently capable of delivering an average beam power output of 1.44 MW with typical yearly operating hours of around 4500 hours. Due to the high power output and high availability of the linac, activation of accelerator equipment is a significant concern. The linac tuning process consists of three stages: model based setup of amplitudes and phases of the RF cavities, empirical beam loss reduction, and then documentation of the final amplitudes and phases of RF cavities after the empirical tuning. The final step is needed to ensure fast recovery from an SRF cavity failure. This paper discusses models, algorithms, diagnostic tools, software, and practices that are used for these stages.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB329  
About • paper received ※ 22 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 28 May 2021       issue date ※ 25 August 2021  
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WEPAB021 Development and Testing of a Cherenkov Beam Loss Monitor in CLEAR Facility experiment, detector, photon, electron 2640
 
  • S. Benitez Berrocal, E. Effinger, W. Farabolini, A. Gilardi, P. Korysko, E. Lima, B. Salvachua, W. Viganò
    CERN, Geneva 23, 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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About • paper received ※ 18 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 21 June 2021       issue date ※ 31 August 2021  
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WEPAB118 Loss Maps Along the ThomX Transfer Line and the Ring First Turn HOM, electron, injection, diagnostics 2874
 
  • A. Moutardier, C. Bruni, I. Chaikovska, S. Chancé, N. Delerue, E.E. Ergenlik, V. Kubytskyi, H. Monard
    Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Orsay, France
 
  Funding: Research Agency under the Equipex convention ANR-10-EQPX-0051.
We report on studies of the loss maps for particles travelling from the end of the ThomX’s linac along the transfer line to the end of the ring first turn in preparation of the machine commissioning. ThomX is a 50-MeV-electron accelerator prototype which will use Compton backscattering to generate a high flux of hard X-rays. The accelerator tracking code MadX is used to simulate electrons’ propagation and compute losses. These maps may be projected at any localisation along the bunch path or plotted along the bunch path. This information is particularly relevant at the locations of the monitoring devices (screens, position monitors,…) where loss predictions will be compared with measurements.
 
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About • paper received ※ 28 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 28 July 2021       issue date ※ 12 August 2021  
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THPAB192 Continuous Beam Dynamics Simulation in COMSOL Multiphysics cyclotron, simulation, solenoid, ion-source 4153
 
  • D. Popov, O. Karamyshev, I.D. Lyapin, V. Malinin
    JINR/DLNP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
 
  The classic way of beam dynamics simulation in a cyclotron is to separate it into many different stages from the ion source to the extraction (or even further), this was absolutely necessary to fit the calculations into any reasonable time in a cost of influence of some operation devices from one stage, on beam dynamics of another (next or previous mostly) stage. We’ve managed to perform beam dynamics from ion source through a solenoid to the center region in a single model in COMSOL, using several fields simultaneously: external magnetic (the magnet), calculated magnetic (the solenoid) and alternating and stationary electric fields in the center region.  
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About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 23 June 2021       issue date ※ 17 August 2021  
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THPAB199 Studies of Longitudinal Beam Losses at LHC Injection injection, simulation, impedance, extraction 4164
 
  • L.E. Medina Medrano, T. Argyropoulos, R. Calaga, H. Timko
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Research supported by the HL-LHC project.
Due to higher beam intensities, the required rf power in the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) era is expected to be at the limit of the available rf power. To mitigate potential limitations of the rf system, the injection voltage can be reduced at the expense of beam losses. In this paper, the average and bunch-by-bunch losses are estimated from Run 2 beam intensity measurements in the SPS before extraction and in the LHC after injection. Macro-particle simulations are performed with CERN’s Beam Longitudinal Dynamics code to reproduce the observed SPS-to-LHC capture and LHC flat-bottom losses. First estimates of injection losses for the HL-LHC at different injection voltages and injection energy errors are discussed.
 
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About • paper received ※ 18 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 28 July 2021       issue date ※ 14 August 2021  
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