Expected performance of TOTEM BLMS at the LHC

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Title	Expected performance of TOTEM BLMS at the LHC
Contributors	RB Appleby (Cockcroft Inst. and Manchester U.) (Pr.Au.), D Macina (CERN), R Hall-Wilton (CERN and Wisconsin U.), V Talanov (CERN)
Abstract	The TOTEM experiment at the LHC will operate down to 10$\sigma$ from the beam in the forward region of the CMS experiment. The associated beam loss monitors (BLMs) are crucial to monitor the position of the detectors and to provide a rapid identification of abnormal beam conditions for machine protection purposes. In this paper, the response of the TOTEM BLMs is considered for nominal machine operation and the protection thresholds are defined, with calculations made of the expected signal from protons grazing the TOTEM pot as a function of pot distance from the beam, and the BLM signal from proton collisions at the CMS beam interaction point.
Organisation	CI , STFC
Keywords	Physics , LHC , Particle Accelerator Conference , TOTEM , BLM
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Language	English (EN)

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Paper In Conference Proceedings	In 2009 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC09), Vancouver, Canada, CI Preprints, CI-09-xx (2009).		TH5RFP031.pdf	2009