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    Detector Seminar

    The LHC Beam Loss Monitoring system.

    by Dr Mariusz Sapinski (CERN/BE-BI)

    → Europe/Zurich
    40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr (CERN)

    40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr

    CERN

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    Description
    The LHC Beam Loss Monitoring system is in the first line of defence for the protection of the accelerator against beams which, in the final configuration for this year, will carry almost 90 MJ of kinetic energy each.The system is designed not only to protect from damage of LHC elements but also to prevent quenching the superconducting magnets. The BLM detectors, being mainly ionisation chambers, will be presented together with Geant4 simulations of their properties. The electronics and software will be discussed. The tests done during the commissioning phase and the data treatment will be shown together with the most spectacular loss cases observed in the LHC up to now. The presentation will conclude with the known limitations of the system and the future developments.
    Slides
    Organised by

    Joachim Baechler/PH-TOT