Protecting LHC components against radiation resulting from an unsynchronized beam abort

Author

Mokhov, N.V. ; Drozhdin, A.I. ; Rakhno, I.L. ; Gyr, M. ; Weisse, E.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3168

Abstract

The effect of possible accidental beam loss in the LHC on the IP5 and IP6 insertion elements is studied via realistic Monte Carlo simulations. The scenario studied is beam loss due to unsynchronized abort at an accidental prefire of one of the abort kicker modules. Simulations show that this beam loss would result in severe heating of the IP5 and IP6 superconducting (SC) quadrupoles. Contrary to the previous considerations with a stationary set of collimators in IP5, collimators in IP6 close to the cause are proposed: a movable collimator upstream of the Q4 quadrupole and a stationary one upstream of the extraction septum MSD. The calculated temperature rise in the optimal set of collimators is quite acceptable. All SC magnets are protected by these collimators against damage

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; accelerator magnets; colliding beam accelerators; proton accelerators; storage rings; superconducting magnets; IP5; IP6; LHC; MSD; Monte Carlo simulation; Q4 quadrupole; beam loss; collimators; extraction septum; insertion elements; superconducting quadrupoles; unsynchronized abort; unsynchronized beam abort; Colliding beam devices; Collimators; Heating; Large Hadron Collider; Lattices; Microwave integrated circuits; Particle beams; Protection; Superconducting magnets; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.988040

Filename

988040