Dr
Rudiger Schmidt
(CERN)
11/04/2005, 14:15
Introduction to protection
The energy stored in the LHC beams is unprecedented threatening to
damage
accelerator equipment in case of uncontrolled beam loss. Safe
operation of the LHC
requires correct operation of several systems: collimators and beam
absorbers, beam
dumping system, beam monitoring, beam interlocks, quench protection
system and
powering interlocks, etc. The time constants for failures...
Dr
Ralph Assmann
(CERN)
11/04/2005, 15:00
Introduction to protection
The LHC aperture is quite tight and must be well protected against
beam loss, both from the beam core and the primary and secondary
beam halos. Consequences of beam loss in the aperture can be benign
(magnet quenches) or malignant (damage to equipment). The LHC
aperture is introduced and the available margin for beam
perturbations is discussed. The collimation system has been...
