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Sobczak, M.

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MOPAN081 The LHC Collimator Controls Architecture - Design and Beam Tests 344
 
  • S. Redaelli, R. W. Assmann, P. Gander, M. Jonker, M. Lamont, R. Losito, A. Masi, M. Sobczak
    CERN, Geneva
 
  The LHC collimation system will require simultaneous management by the LHC control system of more than 500 jaw positioning mechanisms in order to ensure the required beam cleaning and machine protection performance in all machine phases, from injection at 450~GeV to collision at 7~TeV. Each jaw position is a critical parameter for the machine safety which could cause a beam dump. In this paper, the architecture of the LHC collimator controls is presented. The basic design to face the accurate and real-time control of the LHC collimators and the interfaces to the other components of LHC Software Application and control infrastructures are described. The full controls architecture has been tested off-line in dedicated test benches, and in the real accelerator environment in the CERN SPS during beam tests with a full scale collimator prototype. The results and the lessons learned are presented.  
TUPAN107 Beam Loss Response Measurements with an LHC Prototype Collimator in the SPS 1622
 
  • Th. Weiler, G. Arduini, R. W. Assmann, C. Bracco, H.-H. Braun, B. Dehning, P. Gander, E. B. Holzer, M. Jonker, R. Losito, A. Masi, L. Ponce, S. Redaelli, G. Robert-Demolaize, M. Sobczak, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Geneva
 
  Beam tests with an LHC prototype collimator were performed at the SPS in autumn 2006. Applying a new collimator control system many new beam measurements were performed. This contribution presents results on collimator-induced beam loss measurements and their applications to beam-based alignment of collimators and measurements of the beam size and position. Interesting features of the recorded beam loss signals are illustrated and possible impacts for LHC operation are discussed. The measured loss distributions around the full SPS ring are analyzed and compared with simulations.