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Accidental beam losses and protection in
the LHC
R.Schmidt and J.Wenninger
for the Working Group on
Machine Protection
HB 2004 Bensheim
LHC parameters and associated risks
Overview accidental beam losses
Aperture and accidental beam losses
Protection and redundancy
Conclusions
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LHC
tunnel
Beam
dump
tunnel
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Some numbers for 7 TeV
Momentum at collision
Beam intensity
Luminosity
Dipole field at 7 TeV
Typical beam size
•
•
•
•
7
TeV/c
2808  1.1  1011 protons per beam
1034
cm-2s-1
8.33
Tesla
200-300 µm
Energy stored in the magnet system:
Energy stored in one (of 8) dipole circuit:
Energy stored in one beam:
Average beam power to compare with
high power accelerators, both beams:
some
• Instantaneous beam power for one beam:
10 GJoule
1.1 GJoule
350 MJoule
10 kWatt
3.9 TWatt
….during 89 µs
….corresponds to the power of 1700 nuclear power plants
• Energy to heat and melt one kg of copper:
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700 kJ
3
Bunch intensities, quench and damage level
•
•
•
•
Intensity one “pilot” bunch
Nominal bunch intensity
Batch from SPS (216/288 bunches at 450 GeV)
Nominal beam intensity with 2808 bunches
5109
1.11011
31013
31014
• Damage level for fast losses at 450 GeV
• Damage level for fast losses at 7 TeV
1-21012
1-21010
• Quench level for fast losses at 450 GeV
• Quench level for fast losses at 7 TeV
2-3109
1-2106
Damage and quench assessment approximative, supported by experience in SPS
and calculations
Further calculations and material tests at SPS in two weeks planned
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Livingston type plot: Energy stored in the beam
Energy stored in the beam [MJ]
1000.00
LHC top
energy
100.00
LHC injection
(12 SPS batches)
10.00
Factor
~200
ISR
SPS fixed
target
1.00
HERA
TEVATRON
SPS batch to
LHC
0.10
LEP2
SPS
ppbar
RHIC
proton
SNS
0.01
1
10
100
1000
10000
Momentum [GeV/c]
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Failure scenarios and accidental beam losses
A large number of different mechanisms can cause accidental
particle losses: Classification of accidental beam losses
according to time constant for the loss
• Ultra fast beam losses (single turn or less)
• to be avoided, beam dump block is the only element that can
safely absorb the 7 TeV LHC beam
passive protection with collimators and beam absorber
• Very fast beam losses (some turns to some milliseconds)
• Fast beam losses (5 ms – several seconds)
• Slow beam losses (several seconds – 0.2 hours)
active protection, by detecting failure and extracting the beams into
beam dump block
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Single turn accidental beam losses
Failure mechanisms
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•
•
Failure of beam dump kicker (prefiring, asynchronous beam dump)
Failure of kickers for tune measurements and aperture exploration
During transfer and injection
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•
•
•
failure of injection kicker
wrong trajectory or mismatch of beam energy
obstruction of beam passage
Recent studies on protection during transfer and injection of the
beams from SPS at 450 GeV to the LHC (see H.Burkhardt)
Strategy for protection
•
•
•
•
Avoid such failures (systems with high reliability)
Block beam transfer from SPS to LHC if parameters are not correct
(i.e. magnet current)
Beam trajectory after such failure is reasonably well defined
Passive protection: rely on collimators and beam absorbers
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Consequence of a failure scenario: Full 7 TeV
LHC beam deflected into copper target
2808 bunches
7 TeV
350 MJoule
Copper target
2m
Energy density
[GeV/cm3]
on target axis
vaporisation
melting
Target length [cm]
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collaboration with
N.Tahir (GSI) et al.
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Density change in target after impact of 100 bunches
Copper target
copper solid state
radial
100 bunches – target density
reduced to 10%
collaboration with
N.Tahir (GSI) et al.
Target radial coordinate [cm]
•
•
Energy deposition calculations using FLUKA
Numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic response of the
target with two-dimensional hydrodynamic computer code
From this calculations one can estimate the longitudinal range of full beam in copper
between 10m and 40m
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LHC Layout
IR5:CMS
eight arcs (sectors with a
length of about 2300 m)
IR6: Beam
dumping system
IR4: RF + Beam
instrumentation
eight long straight
sections (about 700 m
long)
IR3: Momentum Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
IR8: LHC-B
IR2:ALICE
IR1: ATLAS
Injection
Transfer Line
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IR7: Betatron Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
Injection
Transfer Line
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Collimators for cleaning the
beam halo
• close to the beam between
5-10 
• must be accurately adjusted
(within a fraction of one )
• position depends on optics
and possibly on energy
IR5:CMS
IR6: Beam
dumping system
IR4: RF + Beam
instrumentation
IR3: Momentum Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
IR8: LHC-B
IR2:ALICE
IR1: ATLAS
Injection
Transfer Line
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IR7: Betatron Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
Injection
Transfer Line
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Collimators for protection of
equipment against single turn
beam losses
• shadow equipment downstream
• must be adjusted (better than
one σ)
• position depends on LHC
operational mode (injection,
energy ramp, …) and on optics
IR5:CMS
IR6: Beam
dumping system
IR4: RF + Beam
instrumentation
IR3: Momentum Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
IR8: LHC-B
IR2:ALICE
IR1: ATLAS
Injection
Transfer Line
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IR7: Betatron Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
Injection
Transfer Line
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For protection of equipment
against multiturn beam
losses
• all collimators limiting the
aperture contribute to this
function
IR5:CMS
IR6: Beam
dumping system
IR4: RF + Beam
instrumentation
IR3: Momentum Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
IR8: LHC-B
IR2:ALICE
IR1: ATLAS
Injection
Transfer Line
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IR7: Betatron Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
Injection
Transfer Line
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Collimators for protection
and cleaning of the low-beta
insertions, mainly in IR1 and
IR5
• close to the beam about 10 
• must be accurately adjusted
(within about one )
• mainly required during
squeeze and for squeezed
beams
IR5:CMS
IR6: Beam
dumping system
IR4: RF + Beam
instrumentation
IR3: Momentum Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
IR8: LHC-B
IR2:ALICE
IR1: ATLAS
Injection
Transfer Line
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IR7: Betatron Cleaning
(normal conducting
magnets)
Injection
Transfer Line
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Lifetime of the beam - for nominal intensity at 7 TeV
Beam
lifetime
Beam power into
equipment (1 beam)
Comments
100 h
1 kW
Healthy operation, beam cleaning should
capture > 99% of the protons
10 h
10 kW
Operation acceptable, beam cleaning
should capture 99.9% of the protons
(approximate beam losses = cryogenic
cooling power at 1.9 K)
0.2 h
500 kW
Operation only possibly for 10 s, beam
cleaning must be VERY efficient
1 min
6 MW
<< 1 min
> 6 MW
Equipment or operation failure - operation
not possible - beam must be dumped
Beam must be dumped VERY FAST
Accidental beam losses
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Accidental multiturn beam losses
• Closed orbit grows around the ring
• Fast emittance growth: beam size explodes
• Both
Can happen very fast
Can be detected around the entire accelerator
• Local orbit bump
• cannot happen very fast
• might be detected only locally
Protection: Detect failure and dump beam
Detection, transmission to beam dump, and beam dump – takes at
least 3 turns ~ 270 s
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Multiple turn failures: Magnet powering failures
• Quench of superconducting magnets
• Discharge of superconducting magnets switching a
resistance into the circuit (after quench, or by accident)
• Failure of magnet powering
For some magnets very fast beam loss (several turns): D1 normal
conducting magnet
• Electric short in the coil of a normal conducting magnet
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Multiple turn failures: Other failures
• Aperture limitation in beam pipe (circulating beam)
•
•
•
•
Vacuum valve moves into beam
Collimator moves into beam
Other element moves into beam
Loss of beam vacuum
• Failure in the RF system
• Debunching of beam and number of protons in the abort gap…
could lead to single turn failure when beam is dumped
• Operational failures
• Combined failures, for example after Mains Disturbances
(thunderstorm, …)
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Beam losses and aperture
The aperture of the LHC at 450 GeV is limited (about 7.5σ,
assuming closed orbit excursions=4 mm, beta-beating, ….)
Critical operation at 7 TeV with squeezed optics:
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•
•
•
-function up to 4850 m in insertions IR1 and IR5
very strong low- quadrupole magnets with orbit offset
normal conducting dipole magnets
superconducting dipole magnets
• In general, particle losses first at collimators
• Fast orbit changes are the most critical failures
• collimators at about 6-9  from the beam
• 1% of the beam would damage the collimators for fast beam loss
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Critical apertures around the LHC (illustration drawing)
in units of beam size  at 450 TeV
arc aperture
down to about  7.5 
collimators
(momentum
cleaning)
collimators
(betatron
cleaning)
 6-9 
aperture in cleaning
insertions about  6-9 
IR1
IR2
IR3
aperture in cleaning
insertions about  6-9 
IR4
IR5
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IR6
IR7
IR8
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Critical apertures around the LHC (illustration drawing)
in units of beam size 
TCT
7 TeV and * = 0.55 m in IR1 and IR5
collimators
(momentum
cleaning)
TCT
TCDQ
at ~10 
collimators
(betatron
cleaning)
Triplet
Triplet
beam dump
partial kick
triplet aperture
about 14 
IR1
 6-9 
arc aperture
about  50 
aperture in cleaning
insertions about  6-9 
IR2
IR3
IR4
IR5
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IR6
IR7
IR8
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Most likely failures for fast losses: quenches
Failures leading to the fastest multiturn losses: D1 magnet
orbit [mm]
1.0
1
0.9
Quench of:
1000 x MQX( tx)
- MQX
- D2
1000 x D1 ( tx)
- MB
1000 x D2 ( tx)
0.8
MB quench
fast loss
D1 normalconducting
very fast loss
0.7
0.6
0.5
D2 quench
fast loss
0.4
1000 x MB ( tx) 0.3
Powering
0.2
Failure of
D1 normal 0.1
conducting 0 0
0
0.001
0.002
0.003
MQX: 2 quads
quench
fast loss
0.004
0.005
0.006
0.007
0.008
0.009
time [seconds]
0.00
tx
Squeezed optics with max beta of 4.8 km
0.01
0.01
V.Kain Diploma thesis 2001 / O.Brüning
All 4 quadrupole magnets (inner triplet MQX) quench , approximately Gaussian
current decay with time constant 0.2 s
Powering failure for D1, exponential current decay, time constant 2.5 s
Quench of one MB, approximately Gaussian current decay with time constant 0.2 s
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Particles that touch collimator after failure of
normal conducting D1 magnets
After about 13 turns 3·109 protons touch collimator,
about 6 turns later 1011 protons touch collimator
1011 protons at collimator
“Dump beam” level
V.Kain
HERA experience confirmes worries: very fast beam losses
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Protection and redundancy: what triggers a beam
dump?
1. Hardware diagnostics
2. Quench signal from Quench Protection System
3. Beam loss monitors at the collimators and other aperture
limitations
4. Beam loss monitors in the arcs
5. Magnet current change monitors
6. Beam position change monitors
7. Fast beam current decay (“lifetime”) monitors
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Hardware failure diagnostics
• Vacuum valve leaving the “OUT” position (…away from end
switch)
• Other movable devices leaving the “OUT” position
• Powering failures detected by the power converter, requesting a
beam dump (typical times in the order of 10 ms)
• Failures of cooling for normal conducting magnets
• Failure in the RF system
• Anticipated failure in the beam dumping system (before it is too
late), e.g. when 1 out of 15 kicker is lost
• Failure in critical beam absorbers and collimators
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Hardware failure diagnostics
PLUS
• Does not require collimators to have correct settings
• If early enough, can dump the beam before particle losses
MINUS
•
•
•
•
For many type of failures the beam dump comes too late
Complexity of hardware: not all failures are detected
Too many channels: too many “False Beam Dumps”
Risk of including failures that would not lead to particle losses
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Quench detection
1.
2.
Magnet starts to quench
Resistive Voltage across magnet > 0.1 V
+10 ms: quench detection
• fire quench heater
• requests energy extraction
• requests a beam dump
The quench heaters
become effective
+ 3 ms: the interlock system
transmits the request to the beam
dump
+300 s: the beam dump kicker
extracts beam
Magnet current starts to debypass
magnet by diode
+5 ms: current starts to decay
exponentially
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Quench detection
PLUS
•
•
•
•
Does not require collimators to have correct settings
If early enough, beam gone before losses
Dumps beam for failures of the quench protection system
Does not reduce the availability of LHC: Quench protection is
always required. After a quench the beam must be dumped
MINUS
• Only covers beam losses due to magnet quenches
• Might be too late (…being further analysed, efficiency depends on
quench process, magnet field, beam loss pattern, etc…)
• Large complexity (several 1000 channels) – good post mortem
analysis required
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Beam loss monitoring at aperture limitations
In general, collimators are limiting the aperture
• Always true for beam blow up
• Mostly true for orbit changes
Beam loss monitors at aperture restrictions continuously
measuring beam losses
• Losses are detected within less than a turn
• After detection it takes 2-3 turns to extract all particles into
beam dump block
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Beam loss monitoring at aperture limitations
PLUS
•
•
•
•
•
Should capture (nearly) all types of accidental beam losses
Dumps the beam if there are really particle losses
Very fast (< 100 s)
Limited complexity (some 100 channels)
Expected to be very reliable
MINUS
• Does require collimators to have correct settings and defining the
aperture
• Does not catch beam losses in the arcs (for example, closed orbit
bumps)
• Random spikes might trigger beam dump
• Setting of thresholds not obvious - if too low, False Beam Dumps –
if too high - risk of damage
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Beam loss monitoring around the accelerator
Beam loss monitors continuously measuring beam losses
• Together with the BLMs at aperture limitations, covers most of
the LHC (all arcs)
• Losses can be detected within less than a turn
• After detection it takes 2-3 turns to extract all particles into
beam dump block
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Beam loss monitoring around the accelerator
PLUS
•
•
•
•
•
Dumps the beam if there are really particle losses
For failures leading to orbit changes and emittance growth
Detection can be made very fast (< 100 s)
Does not require collimators to have correct settings
Catches failures that appear only in the arcs (for example, closed
bump)
MINUS
• Large complexity (some 1000 channels)
• Could increase number of False Beam Dumps
• Setting thresholds: delicate balance between avoiding magnet
quenches and avoiding False Beam Dumps
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Magnet current decay monitoring for critical magnets
Very fast detection of power converter / magnet failures
• Monitors change of magnet current (Hall probes, voltage, …)
• Prototype “quick and dirty” gave promising results (M.Zerlauth)
• Similar technique recently successfully implemented at HERA
(M.Werner)
• Should be possible to detect powering failures in less than one
millisecond
Interlock signal creation using Hall-Probe
6
Voltage [V]
5
4
3
2
1
0
-1
5
10
15
20
25
Time [ms]
Reference Ramp Converter
HB Hall
2004probe readout
Interlock Signal
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Magnet current decay monitoring for critical magnets
PLUS
• Independent method to monitor failures in the powering system:
power converter fault / thunderstorm / short circuit in magnet / other
problems
• Does not require collimators to have correct settings
• Can be made fast (< 1ms)
• Mainly for normal conducting magnets
MINUS
• Needs to be demonstrated if practical (EMC, …) – wait for HERA
experience
• Setting of thresholds required – could be delicate
• Should be limited to a few electrical circuits with normal conducting
magnets – otherwise too complex
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Beam position change monitors
If the orbit start to moves very fast, dump the beam
• Fast orbit changes can be observed anywhere around the LHC
• Observation for each beam, each plane, two monitors with 90
degrees phase advance: in total 8 BPMs
• …system with limited complexity
• BPMs at location of high beta function, using the same monitors
that are already required for machine protection (to ensure
x < 4 mm in the insertion IR6 for the beam dumping system)
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Beam position change monitors: thresholds
450 GeV: fastest orbit movement during normal operation by an
orbit corrector magnet
Superconducting orbit correctors : 2 mm/s
Normal conducting orbit correctors: 0.6 mm/s
… 15 mm/s
… 1.7 mm/s
450 GeV: if the change of the orbit exceeds, say, some 10 mm/s
corresponding to 0.01 mm/msec, there is something wrong
Detection of very fast orbit drifts:
(IF dx/dt > 0.1 mm/ms) OR
(IF dx/dt > 1 mm/100ms) THEN beam dump
7 TeV: if the change of the orbit exceeds, say, some 1 mm/s
corresponding to 0.001 mm/msec, there is something wrong
(IF dx/dt > 0.05 mm/ms) OR
(IF dx/dt > 0.3 mm/100ms) THEN beam dump
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Beam position change monitors
PLUS
•
•
•
•
•
Independent method to measure fast orbit drifts due to failures
Does not require collimators to have correct settings
Can be made fast (< 1ms)
Beam dump before particles are lost
Limited complexity
MINUS
• Is it practical ? False Beam Dumps ?
• Setting of thresholds delicate
• What to do during injection, during kicks for Q-measurements, … to
be studied
• Only for beam orbit changes, not for emittance growth
• Studies needed
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Fast beam current decay monitoring
Very fast beam current monitor, could detect losses within
short time
• Measuring proton losses with, say, N / t = 1010 protons
• Interlock condition
• if (N / t > Nthreshold(E) · 1010) THEN BEAM DUMP
• t could be as short as one turn
• Nthreshold decreases with energy to be always efficient
• For start of LHC operation, when intensity is limited, resolution
should be no problem
• Challenge: must be fast and accurate
• First discussions with experts - looks promising
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Fast beam current decay monitoring
PLUS
•
•
•
•
•
Independent method to measure beam losses
Does not require collimators to have correct settings
Fast for reduced accuracy (< 1ms)
Slow for high accuracy
(> 10ms)
Limited complexity – one instrument
MINUS
• Needs to be demonstrated if practical
• Setting of thresholds required
• Not sufficient for all LHC operation modes and for shortest
accidental beam losses time constants
• Could be ok for 450 GeV, not for 7 TeV
• Studies needed
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Protection and redundancy at 450 GeV
System
Needs
collimators
In time?
Complete
protection
Add.
develop.
effort
Complexity
Y=1, N=3
Y=3, N=1
Y=3, N=1
Y=1, N=3
Y=1, N=3
Hardware
diagnostics
3
1
1
3
2
Quench signal
3
3
1
3
3
Beam loss monitors
collimators and
aperture
limitations
1
2
2
3
2
Beam loss monitors
in the arcs
3
2
2
3
1
Magnet current
change monitors
3
2
1
2
2
Beam position
change monitors
3
3
2
2
3
Fast beam current
decay (“lifetime”)
monitors
2
3
3
2
3
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Protection and redundancy at 7 TeV
System
Needs
collimators
In time?
Complete
protection
Add.
develop.
effort
Complexity
Y=1, N=3
Y=3, N=1
Y=3, N=1
Y=1, N=3
Y=1, N=3
Hardware
diagnostics
3
1
1
3
2
Quench signal
3
2
2
3
3
Beam loss monitors
collimators and
aperture
limitations
1
3
3
3
2
Beam loss monitors
in the arcs
3
2
1
3
1
Magnet current
change monitors
3
2
1
2
2
Beam position
change monitors
3
3
2
2
3
Fast beam current
decay (“lifetime”)
monitors
2
2
2
1
3
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Conclusions
• Protection for LHC starts before extraction from SPS
• Protection is required during the entire cycle
Large redundancy in protection
Availability of the machine due to the complex protection is an
important issue
• Large energy: stringent protection required - too few interlocks could lead to
severe damage of the LHC
• Unprecedented complexity: too conservative interlocking of the machine
protection systems could prevent efficient LHC exploitation
• Initial operation with part of the protection systems
• Commissioning of other protection systems during initial operation
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Some questions to the workshop……..
Fast beam current decay monitoring
Fast beam position change monitoring
• What can be achieved?
• Who has experience?
• Where else might such systems be required?
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Acknowledgements
The presentation is based on the work that was
performed in many groups in several CERN
Departments, as well as collaborators from other labs
(Fermilab, GSI, Protvino, Triumf, ….)
Contributions of many colleagues are acknowledged, in
particular for the discussions in the Machine Protection
WG, Collimation WG and Injection WG
particular thanks for R.Assmann, H.Burkhardt, E.Carlier, B.Dehning,
B.Goddard, E.B.Holzer, J.B.Jeanneret, V.Kain, B.Puccio, J.Uythoven.
M.Zerlauth ……
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Recent question in MPWG: Can we dump the beam in time after a
quench of a dipole magnet?

Beam is to be dumped before the current in the dipoles starts to decay

The sequence of following actions has to be determined










beam loss causes the magnet to quench
the voltage builds up and exceeds the threshold of the quench detector
the quench detector detects the voltage after some time
the quench detector fires quench heaters or triggers the energy extraction
at the same time, the PIC is informed
PIC sends a dump request to the BIC
the heaters become efficient
the BIC sends a dump request to the beam dumping system
the voltage exceeds the diode voltage, and the current starts to bypass the magnet
the switch opens, and the current in the string of magnets decays
Who’s quickest?

Defined sequence

The Powering Interlock Controller is the only system sending (direct)
beam dump request after powering failures

‘Secondary’ protection with collimators, BLM (possibly BPM / beam lifetime)
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Hardware configuration (main dipole circuit) and signal
transmission
‘Quench Loop’ stretching over the arcs
Beam Dump
Request
Beam
Interlock
Controller
Beam Dump
Request
Beam
Dumping
System
Quenching (dipole)
magnet in the arc
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The PIC process times

Interlock Controller is based on a PLC controlled process,
monitoring and controlling up to 45 electrical circuits (>200 signals)

For time (beam) critical circuits -> configurable hardwired matrix in
parallel
PIC Controller (PLC)
Process time < 5ms
Quench Signals,
Discharge Requests
Power Permit,
Powering Failure,
Discharge Requests
Quench
Protection
System
Power
Converters
For main circuits
Hardware Matrix (CPLD)
Process time < 0.2ms
Beam Dump Requests
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The
Decay starts somewhat before the
complete arc extinction due to
Timescales
resistive arc // resistor
Diode becomes
Current in dipole circuit
conductive > 80ms
< 15 μs < 100 μs
5..7 ms
T1
Mechanic opening &
EE system readsarc extinction
Quench signal
T2
Switch Opening
< 15 μs< 100 μs
0.2 … 5ms < 100μs
T3
Last branch open, arc
is extinct –
Current in dipole
magnets decays
< 270μs
PIC process
T2
T3
T5
PIC reads signal PIC issues
Completion of beam dump
beam dumpT4
Beam dump is received by the BIC
T1
Quench Loop Controller
Receives signal
T0
Quench signal
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Conclusions

Due to the delay in the switch opening of the 13kA energy extraction
system, the beam is dumped before the current in the magnet starts
decaying

also true in case of self triggering of EE

For all other sc magnets the time constraints are less critical

For time critical signals (mainly main dipole and quadrupole circuits
due to large effects on the circulating beams), a hardwired matrix
within the PIC can be configured in parallel to the PLC process

What to do for nc magnets?!
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