How to commission a machine that has the capacity to destroy itself

por Reyes Alemany (CERN)

jueves 11 oct. 2007 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

The energy stored in the LHC magnets presents a considerable challenge for commissioning event before any beam is injected. Furthermore, the energy stored in the nominal LHC beams is such that it presents serious threat to the accelerator equipment in case of uncontrolled beam loss. Consequently, a staged approach has been developed, in which the complexity and the destructive power of the LHC beams are both increased incrementally. During this seminar the overall approach is described with particular emphasis on the commissioning to first high energy collisions.