Author: Perillo Marcone, A.
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Beam Intercepting Device Challenges for High Intensity Accelerators - a Global Perspective  
 
  • A. Perillo Marcone
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  Several beam intercepting devices (BID) are used in particle accelerators for different functions: machine protection (stopping the beam in accidental scenarios), human safety , beam conditioning (e.g. collimators, scrapers, slits), secondary beam production (targets) and absorbers (beam dumps). Since these devices are found in accelerators with a broad range of beam energies and particle types, a large diversity of requirements, materials and designs are observed. Typical considerations are physical and structural properties of materials. Hence, the full palette of materials is used in BIDs across the different accelerators, from ceramics and carbon-based materials (graphite and CfC) to virtually all metals. In addition, some devices need to absorb and manage power (heat) deposited by the beam, which imposes other constraints in the design, like cooling requirements and service temperature of the materials employed. Irradiation damage is also accounted for in the design of some devices. A state of the art of BIDs used in different accelerator complexes in the world will be presented here, including their main functionalities, requirements and design features.  
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THBP49 Collimation of 400 MJ Beams at the LHC: The First Step Towards the HL-LHC Era 603
 
  • S. Redaelli, A. Abramov, D.B. Baillard, R. Bruce, R. Cai, F. Carra, M. D’Andrea, M. Di Castro, L. Giacomel, P.D. Hermes, B. Lindström, D. Mirarchi, N. Mounet, F.-X. Nuiry, A. Perillo Marcone, F.F. Van der Veken
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • R. Cai
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • A. Vella
    University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
 
  Funding: Work supported by the HL-LHC project.
An important upgrade programme is planned for the collimation system of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in order to meet the challenges of the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project. A first stage of the HL-LHC upgrade was already deployed during the last LHC Long Shutdown, offering important improvements of the collimation cleaning, a significant reduction of the impedance contribution and better cleaning of collisional debris, in particular for ion-ion collisions. This upgrade provides a critical opportunity to explore the LHC intensity limits during the LHC Run 3 and can provide crucial feedback to refine upgrade plans and operational scenarios in the HL-LHC era. This paper describes the performance of the upgraded LHC collimation system that has already enabled stored-beam energies larger than 400 MJ at the unprecedented beam energy of 6.8 TeV, and reviews further upgrade plans envisaged to reach 700 MJ beams at the HL-LHC.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THBP49  
About • Received ※ 03 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 09 October 2023 — Issued ※ 10 October 2023
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