Title :
Availability and reliability issues for ILC
Author :
Himel, T. ; Nelson, John ; Ross, M.
Author_Institution :
SLAC, Menlo Park
Abstract :
The International Linear Collider (ILC) will be the largest most complicated accelerator ever built. For this reason extensive work is being done early in the design phase to ensure that it will be reliable enough. This includes gathering failure mode data from existing accelerators and simulating the failures and repair times of the ILC. This simulation has been written in a general fashion using MATLAB and could be used for other accelerators. Results from the simulation tool have been used in making some of the major ILC design decisions and an unavailability budget has been developed.
Keywords :
linear colliders; physics computing; reliability; ILC; MATLAB simulation; accelerator design; failure mode data; international linear collider; Availability; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Computational modeling; Klystrons; Linear accelerators; Magnets; Particle beams; Power supplies; Software packages;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0916-7
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2007.4441325
