Machine protection for the experiments of the LHC

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Title	Machine protection for the experiments of the LHC
Contributors	RB Appleby (Cockcroft Inst. and Manchester U.), D Macina (CERN)
Abstract	The LHC stored beam contains 362 MJ of energy at the top beam energy of 7 TeV/c, presenting a significant risk to the components of the machine and the detectors. In response to this threat, a sophisticated system of machine protection has been developed to minimize the danger, and detect potentially dangerous situations. In this paper, the protection of the experiments in the LHC from the machine is considered, focusing on pilot beam strikes on the experiments during injection and on the dynamics of hardware failure with a circulating beam, with detailed time-domain calculations performed for LHC ring power converter failures and magnet quenches. The prospects for further integration of the machine protection and experimental protection systems are considered, along with the risk to near-beam detectors from closed local bumps.
Organisation	CI , STFC
Keywords	Physics , LHC , Particle Accelerator Conference , Machine Protection , LHC experiments
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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).		WE4GRC05.pdf	2009