Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (Dec 2019)

Design, construction, and beam tests of a rotatable collimator prototype for high-intensity and high-energy hadron accelerators

  • T. Markiewicz,
  • E. Bong,
  • L. Keller,
  • J. Smith,
  • O. Aberle,
  • C. Accettura,
  • A. Bertarelli,
  • E. Berthome,
  • N. Biancacci,
  • M. Butcher,
  • F. Carra,
  • P. Gander,
  • P. Gradassi,
  • M. Guinchard,
  • L. Lacny,
  • A. Lafuente,
  • J. Lendaro,
  • M. Pasquali,
  • S. Redaelli,
  • G. Valentino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.123002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 12
p. 123002

Abstract

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A rotatable-jaw collimator design was conceived as a solution to recover from catastrophic beam impacts which would damage a collimator at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or its High-Luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC). One such rotatable collimator prototype was designed and built at SLAC and delivered to CERN for tests with LHC-type circulating beams in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). This was followed by destructive tests at the dedicated High Radiation to Materials (HiRadMat) facility to validate the design and rotation functionality. An overview of the collimator design, together with results from tests without and with beam are presented.