Speaker
Alessandro Bertarelli
(CERN)
Description
Accidental events implying direct beam impacts on collimators are of the utmost importance as they may lead to serious limitations of the overall LHC Performance. In order to assess damage threshold of components impacted by high energy density beams, advanced numerical simulation methods are under continuous development. Results of analyses carried out on several Phase 1 Collimators are discussed. In particular, the number and size of proton bunches leading to catastrophic failure of a Tungsten collimator (TCT) are described in detail.
