R Schmidt et al 2006 New J. Phys. 8 290 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/8/11/290
Protection of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Focus on Accelerator and Beam PhysicsR Schmidt1, R Assmann, E Carlier, B Dehning, R Denz, B Goddard, E B Holzer, V Kain, B Puccio, B Todd, J Uythoven, J Wenninger and M Zerlauth
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will collide two counter-rotating proton beams, each with an energy of 7 TeV. The energy stored in the superconducting magnet system will exceed 10 GJ, and each beam has a stored energy of 362 MJ which could cause major damage to accelerator equipment in the case of uncontrolled beam loss. Safe operation of the LHC will therefore rely on a complex system for equipment protection. The systems for protection of the superconducting magnets in case of quench must be fully operational before powering the magnets. For safe injection of the 450 GeV beam into the LHC, beam absorbers must be in their correct positions and specific procedures must be applied. Requirements for safe operation throughout the cycle necessitate early detection of failures within the equipment, and active monitoring of the beam with fast and reliable beam instrumentation, mainly beam loss monitors (BLM). When operating with circulating beams, the time constant for beam loss after a failure extends from ≈ms to a few minutes—failures must be detected sufficiently early and transmitted to the beam interlock system that triggers a beam dump. It is essential that the beams are properly extracted on to the dump blocks at the end of a fill and in case of emergency, since the beam dump blocks are the only elements of the LHC that can withstand the impact of the full beam.
- PACS
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29.20.db Storage rings and colliders
84.71.Ba Superconducting magnets; magnetic levitation devices
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Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism
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Issue 11 (November 2006)
Received 7 August 2006
Published 28 November 2006
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Protection of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
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