CERN LHC Project Document No. LHC- CH-1211 Geneva 23 Switzerland CERN Div./Group or Supplier/Contractor Document No. AB/BT the EDMS Document No. Large Hadron Collider - project Date: 2004-09-27 Functional Specification FUNCTION AND OPERATING CONDITIONS OF THE TDI BEAM ABSORBER FOR UPGRADED SPS BEAMS Abstract An adjustable, two jaw, beam absorber (TDI) is placed downstream of the MKI in each of the two LHC injection systems, for setting up with low intensity and to protect the superconducting machine elements in the event of MKI malfunctioning. The Functional Specification of the TDI is given. It includes criteria for beam dilution, circulating beam aperture, ALICE ZDC aperture, movement range, reproducibility and precision, expected beam load conditions during regular operation, during setting up and during MKI malfunction and beam induced RF heating. After the first years of LHC operation, several problems have become apparent with the present TDI design. In addition, the beam parameters required for the HL-LHC era are significantly different to those initially specified. This document updates the TDI Functional Specification in view of a system upgrade. Prepared by : Checked by : Approval Group Leader: Wolfgang BARTMANN TE/ABT Chiara BRACCO TE/ABT Brennan GODDARD TE/ABT Verena KAIN AB/CO Roberto LOSITO EN/STI Stefano REDAELLI BE/ABP O. ABERLE V. BAGLIN A. BERTARELLI A. GRUDIEV A. LECHNER A. MASSI M. MEDDAHI R. SCHMIDT J. WENNINGER Volker MERTENS TE/ABT Approval Group Members: P. Collier, D. Forkel-Wirth, D. Missiaen, M. Nonis, M. Brugger, A. Siemko, M. Zerlauth, E. Metral, M. Giovannozzi, B. Dehning, R. Jacobsson, A. Di Mauro, B. Gorini, O. Brünning, L. Rossi, S.Chemli, Y.Muttoni LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 2 of 12 History of Changes Rev. No. Date 0.1 16/05/12 Pages Description of Changes Draft version for comments LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 3 of 12 Table of Contents 1. SCOPE .....................................................................................................4 2. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................4 3. 3.1 3.2 OPERATING CONDITIONS .......................................................................5 LHC FILLING VIA THE TRANSFER LINES TI 2 AND TI 8 .................................... 5 TDI POSTIONING ....................................................................................... 5 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.3 3.5.4 DIFFERENT SETTING TYPES ................................................................................. 5 PROTECTION SETTINGS ...................................................................................... 5 TDI PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE .................................................................... 6 BEAM LOADING FOR ACTIVATION ANALYSIS ................................................. 7 THERMAL LOADING .................................................................................... 8 Direct beam load from secondary halo. ................................................................. 8 Direct beam load from bunches captured during setting-up. .................................... 8 Resistive losses. ................................................................................................. 8 Trapped RF modes.............................................................................................. 8 4. 4.1 4.2 APERTURE REQUIREMENTS AND CONSTRAINTS ......................................9 ALICE ZDC APERTURE ................................................................................. 9 CIRCULATING BEAM APERTURE.................................................................... 9 5. 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 DESIGN REQUIREMENTS AND CONSTRAINTS ..........................................9 MATERIALS ............................................................................................... 9 IMPEDANCE ............................................................................................... 9 VACUUM SYSTEM ..................................................................................... 10 BEAM SHIELDING ..................................................................................... 10 REQUIRED JAW MOVEMENT RANGE AND SETTING PRECISION ....................... 10 INTERLOCKS AND RELIABILITY .................................................................. 11 6. REFERENCES..........................................................................................11 LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 4 of 12 1. SCOPE This Functional Specification describes the TDI (Target Dump Injection) protection elements [1]. It is intended as a stand-alone document, but is based heavily on the original Functional Specification published in 2004 [2]. The TDI consists of movable absorber blocks, to limit the vertical aperture, whose essential purpose is to provide protection against malfunction during the injection process. A TDI is installed at the two injection points of the LHC: IR 2 and IR 8. The function, performance objectives and operating conditions in relation to the beam parameters requested by HL-LHC [3] will be presented. 2. INTRODUCTION The transfer of 450 GeV protons from SPS to LHC is made through the two beam transfer lines TI 2 and TI 8 [4]. The beam is injected into the LHC in IR 2 and IR 8 (see Figures 1 and 2). The beam to be injected passes through 5 horizontally deflecting steel septum magnets MSI with a total deflection of 12 mrad, and a vertically deflecting kicker MKI, consisting of 4 modules, with a nominal total kick strength of 0.85 mrad [5]. Uncontrolled beam loss resulting from errors (missing, partial or wrong kick strength) in the MKI could result in serious damage of the equipment in the LHC injection regions (in particular the superconducting separation dipole D1), the triplet magnets near the ALICE or LHCb experiments, or in the arcs of the LHC machine itself. A movable 2-sided absorber TDI is installed about 70 m from the MKI, at a 90˚ phase advance, in order to protect the LHC equipment. In addition, the TDI is occasionally used during setting up and commissioning, and for some filling schemes where pilot intensity bunches are steered onto the jaws when already circulating beam is over-injected with a new bunch or batch. Each TDI consists of two absorber jaws. The upper jaw intercepts injected beam which is not (or not sufficiently) deflected by the injection kickers. The lower jaw intercepts the deflected circulating beam in the event of a kicker mistiming. Other failure scenarios have been explored in depth [7, 14] – the most critical is a flashover, or breakdown, in the kicker tank which could lead to a grazing incidence beam. TDI Figure 1- View of the LHC injection regions in IR 2. TDI Figure 2- View of the LHC injection regions in IR 8. LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 5 of 12 3. OPERATING CONDITIONS 3.1 LHC FILLING VIA THE TRANSFER LINES TI 2 AND TI 8 The LHC injection sequence can include the following stages: 1. Setting up of the injection process (commissioning). The TDI may be closed and the injection kickers inhibited allowing pilot bunches to directly impact the TDI. This will allow steering of the end of the injection lines and the septa channel. The upper jaw catches injected beam not or not sufficiently deflected by injection kickers. 2. Injection with pilot in ‘relaxed’ settings (commissioning). The TDI is initially set at some ‘relaxed’ settings for injection of a pilot or nominal bunch, to allow the reference orbit to be established. 3. Setting up of TDI (commissioning). The TDI is adjusted with respect to the injected beam, by adjusting the position and/or angle to intercept the beam, and recording the beam loss. Automatic sequences can now be used for this, and positioning accuracy and reproducibility are important. 4. Normal injection sequence: a. TDI is set to ‘protection’ settings of about ±7 . b. Injection with pilot bunch. c. Injection of intermediate beam (12 or 24 bunches). d. Injection of nominal batches, of up to 288 bunches. During this process the pilot bunch is overinjected and dumped onto the lower TDI jaw. The TDIs must be interlocked during the injection of intensity about 1012 p+. e. At the end of the injection process and before the ramp the TDI is retracted to the ‘high energy’ position, which may be the same as the parking position. During the injection process it is required to first have a pilot bunch circulating in the LHC. Higher intensity beam will systematically be over-injected which will mean the pilot beam being dumped regularly on the TDI. In the case of a problem, it is also possible that full intensity bunches or full batches could impact the TDI. The TDI jaws are assumed to be moved in near to the beam only for the setting up of the injection and for the injection process, and to be retracted otherwise. 3.2 TDI POSTIONING 3.2.1 DIFFERENT SETTING TYPES The settings of the TDI jaws will have to cover: Fully closed, at around ±1 mm for injection optimisation and possibly protection of ALICE and LHCb during injection optimisation, with pilot bunches only. Partially retracted (typically ±10 mm) when establish circulating beam etc. Retracted to ‘high energy’ settings. Parking position, usually during the preparation for injection. Gap across zero to block aperture (typically -/+5 mm) 3.2.2 PROTECTION SETTINGS The TDI is positioned with respect to the circulating beam. At IP2 and IP8 at injection there are crossing and separation bumps, which produce a closed orbit at the TDI with both an offset and angle with respect to the unperturbed orbit (see Table 1). Point 2: beam 1 injected, vertical crossing, horizontal separation LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 6 of 12 Point 8: beam 2 injected, horizontal crossing, vertical separation Further, the position of the jaws should also take into account the beam divergence (orbit ANGLE AND ALIGNEMNT ERRORS). Orbit distortions with respect to the central beam axis will also be present. There will also be alignment errors, and mechanical tolerances on the angle. Finally, setup measurements with deliberately applied angles are used to check the actual alignment with respect to the beam [5 CB IPAC12] To cater for these requirements a maximum angle of the jaws with respect to the central axis of around 2 mrad should be allowed. An asymmetric offset of the two jaws is clearly needed and in the limit an individual jaw position will need to cross nominal beam axis. Appropriate interlocks on jaw positioning during the filling process should be anticipated to ensure the jaw positions and gap. Table 1. Nominal vertical beam positions and angles at TDI in IR2 and IR8. To update (or delate!) IR2 – beam 1 IR8 – beam 2 Nominal y [mm] 3.7 -1.0 Nominal y’ [mm] 0.05 -0.03 y -0.45 0.45 Nominal upper jaw [mm] 7.7 3.0 Nominal lower jaw [mm] -0.3 -5.0 3.3 TDI PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Protection of LHC equipment from damage A fault on the MKI could result in the whole injected batch being mis-steered [ref]. Wrongly injected beams with large excursions before they arrive at the collimation insertions in the LHC, which is in any case not designed to provide phase coverage for single pass failures. The damage level for LHC equipment for fast and localised losses is estimated to be around 20 J/g [5] Secondary and scattered particles must not cause damage to local equipment, in particular D1 [6]. During such events the TDI should not itself be damaged, either in terms of the jaw material, coating, vacuum system, positioning system or in other functional ways like integrity of the impedance shielding. Detailed energy deposition simulations are therefore required with the new beam parameters and any proposed new TDI design, to evaluate the energy deposition Quench protection The quench level for fast and localised losses is estimated to be about four orders of magnitude lower than the damage level, at around 5 mJ/g [8] for 450 GeV. For the expected load cases during routine injection, the D1 and downstream magnets must not quench. This includes impact of pilot bunches on the TDI, plus the load from uncaptured beam kicked onto the TDI, and also must cover the continuous load from the secondary beam halo when the lifetime is low (limit about 6 1010 p+ / s). For a DC load, at 450 GeV the quench limit is taken to be 40 mW/g [8]. Anway given by retraction and collimation setup. Quenches can be permitted for rare failures, e.g. MKI flashover at grazing incidence, or MKI sweep due a timing error. The load cases and design objective are shown in Table 2. LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 7 of 12 Table 2. Summary of load cases and required performance objectives. Note that these are all at 450 GeV; after the injection process the MKI must be interlocked “off”. Load Case MKI Kick [%] protons on TDI [Upper/Lower jaw] Minimum objective Setting-up pilot 0 (inj, beam) 1010 [U] No quench 0.5% uncaptured beam 100 (circ. beam) 3.6 x 10 11 Halo during low lifetime 0 (circ. beam) 6 x 10 / s [U and L] Timing error (1) 100 (circ.) 288 x 1.7 1011 [L] No damage 0 (inj.) 288 x 1.7 10 No damage 0-100 (circ.) (MKI rise during gap) Timing error (2) 10 [L] No quench 11 [U] No quench <288 x 1.7 10 11 [L] No damage 100-0 (inj) <288 x 1.7 10 11 [U] No damage 1 MKI module off 75 (inj) 1 MKI module flashover 75-125 (inj) (MKI rise during beam) 288 x 1.7 10 11 [U] No damage 288 x 1.7 10 11 [U or L] No damage 3.4 BEAM LOADING FOR ACTIVATION ANALYSIS For the TDI load, 200 days of LHC physics per year and 4 LHC fills per day at 450 GeV are assumed. Three types of losses at the TDI are considered: 1) Regular losses from halo load The TDI is set at about ±7 σ. A worst-case assumption is made that the average beam lifetime during the injection process is 25 hours, and that each injection lasts 30 minutes. The average intensity is assumed to be 50% of the peak. Set at 7 σ the TDI can intercept 20% of lost particles [9] – on average this is assumed to be 10%, as the LHC intensity increases from zero to the maximum over the injection period. The total number of particles lost per year at the TDI is then: 200 x 4 x 2808 x 2.5 x 1011 x 0.5 x (1-exp[-0.5/15]) x 0.1 = 9.2 x 1014 p+ / y 2) Regular losses from ‘setting up’ From setting up with pilot bunches it is assumed that 2 pilot bunches impact each TDI for every fill. The total per year is then : 200 x 4 x 2 x 1010 = 1.6 x 1013 p+ / y 3) Occasional losses from failures LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 8 of 12 During LHC filling of the order of a few serious failures per year with the full beam of 7.22·1013 protons are expected to be the upper limit for the transfer lines. Assuming 10 such failures as an upper limit, including problems with abort gap keeper etc., the total on the TDI is then: 10 x 288 x 2.5 x 1011 = 7.2 x 1014 p+ / y Based on the above, 1.7 x 1015 protons/year per TDI is taken as a safe estimate for the upper limit for regular losses spread through the year from scraping, setting up and accidents. 7.2 x 1013 protons (one full batch of 288 bunches) should be taken as the figure to calculate cooling times for an instantaneous accidental loss following a failure. 3.5 THERMAL LOADING There will be a thermal load from direct beam impact, and also from RF heating from the circulating beam. The impedance of the TDI absorber has to be taken into account, as do the losses from trapped RF modes in the TDI tank. The TDI performance (vacuum, time in beam) should not be limited by the expected heating effects. 3.5.1 Direct beam load from secondary halo. The TDI is set at ±7 σ. A worst-case assumption is made that the average beam lifetime during the injection process is 5 hours, and that each injection lasts 30 minutes. The average intensity is assumed to be 50% of the peak. Set at 7 σ the TDI can intercept 20% of lost particles – on average this is assumed to be 10%. The average direct beam load per second per TDI jaw during filling is then : 2808 x 2.5 x 1011 x 0.5 x (1-exp[-1/5 x 60 x 60]) x 0.1 = 1.9 x 109 p+ / s If all the energy is deposited in the TDI (very unlikely), the heat load is then 280 W (140 W per jaw), and the total energy deposited in 30 minutes is 500 kJ. 3.5.2 Direct beam load from bunches captured during setting-up. During setting-up low-intensity bunches may be repeatedly directed onto the TDI. Assuming as a worst case bunches of pilot intensity, the average direct beam load per second for the upper jaw during filling for a 20 s period between injections is then : 1010 x 0.05 = 5 x 108 p+ / s If all the energy is deposited in the upper TDI jaw, the heat load is then 37 W. 3.5.3 Resistive losses. With the present design the resistive heat load for the jaws in the injection position with the half gap of 4.56 mm is estimated to be about 900 W per jaw for 25 ns beam case (2808x2.2e11) and 1150 W per jaw for the 50 ns case (1404x3.5e11). For the retracted position with half gap of 55 mm the loss is much lower: 95 W and 120 W for the 25 ns and 50 ns cases, respectively [10]. The loss can be significantly reduced in the new design if adequate coating of the absorber blocks with 10 um of Cu or 100 um of Ti is implemented as specified in [15]. This needs careful checking in simulation, including also sensitivity analysis e.g. for surface coating degradation, impact damage etc. Adequate cooling of the absorber block is mandatory. 3.5.4 Trapped RF modes. The heat load from trapped RF modes in the TDI tank must be taken into account. The heat load depends on the mechanical design and beam structure. In the present design with the LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 9 of 12 half gap set to 8 mm it is estimated to be of about 1 kW for the case of two 25 ns beams (2 x 2808 x 2.2e11) circulating in TDI. It is about 40% lower for the case of two 50 ns beams [17]. It is much lower for the retracted position of the jaws. 50 % of this is lost in the jaws and 40 % on the Cu beam screen. Detailed simulations must be made to estimate the loads for a particular design, and in addition adequate margins based on experience to date taken into account in the cooling and mechanical design. 4. APERTURE REQUIREMENTS AND CONSTRAINTS 4.1 ALICE ZDC APERTURE The ALICE ZDC in IR2 requires an enlarged aperture towards the inside of the ring, for spectator protons deflected in D1. The aperture of any intervening vacuum element between D1 and the ZDC, like the TDI, should provide an opening of at least 6 mrad measured from the centre of the D1 magnet, towards the inside of the ring only. At the extreme TDI location this means an opening of around 120 mm must be ensured from the beam axis, when the absorber block is retracted in the ‘high energy’ or parking position. 4.2 CIRCULATING BEAM APERTURE The TDI design must provide sufficient opening for the non-injected circulating beam. According to the normal LHC aperture conventions [11], the n1 at the TDI should be greater than 7.0. For these calculations the separation and crossing bumps are also to be included. 5. DESIGN REQUIREMENTS AND CONSTRAINTS 5.1 MATERIALS The choice of all materials for the mechanical design must fulfil the general constraints of thermal, mechanical, vacuum, radiological and environmental specifications for the LHC. A list of the chemical composition of all component parts must be established to enable activity prediction and tracking of potentially radioactive parts. Materials shall be chosen to minimise induced activity, and approved by RP experts. 5.2 BEAM COUPLING IMPEDANCE The vacuum elements must have a low electrical resistivity in order to have low transverse machine impedance. The surface resistance Rs of the material used for the beam pipes and the beam shielding and surrounding the LHC circulating beam should be smaller than 3.9 10-11●d3 , where d (mm) is the chamber inner diameter or smallest dimension [16]. This scaling is to be applied for the distance from the surface to the circulating beam: d/2 > 40 mm. For smaller distances in particular for the absorber blocks dedicated simulation of impedance is mandatory taking into account geometry and materials of the blocks and the coatings. A good electrical contact between the absorber blocks with metallic coating, beam screens, beam pipes and the tank should be envisaged to allow a smooth conduction of the beam image currents. For the same reason, the number of gaps between absorber blocks for thermal expansion must be minimized, in ideal case down to zero. The new design must be submitted to the impedance team for approval, at the design phase. LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 10 of 12 5.3 VACUUM SYSTEM 5.4 The design of the beam vacuum must be compatible with the ultra high vacuum system of the LHC ring, as described in [12]. Particular attention must be paid to the choice of material and cleanliness. The TDIs must be in-situ bakeable to at least 250 deg, and better to 300 deg during 24h. The TDIs are in experimental insertions which means that sector valves at the extremities of the tanks need to be foreseen, and possibly between any segmented tanks. The TDIs are subjected to electron cloud, particularly during the LHC commissioning phases. Being inside experimental insertions, an anti-multipacting coating of the blocks and of the beam shielding must be foreseen to minimise electron stimulated gas desorption. Appropriate pumping speed must be made available to guarantee a reduced background level to the experiments. 5.5 After accidental high intensity beam impact, the vacuum pressure should return to normal in a reasonable time (of the order of 1 hour), such that the operational efficiency of the LHC is not affected, and that the pressure in the adjacent sectors, in particular the experiments, does not degrade. In the case of impact by a pilot bunch, the vacuum pressure rise must be small enough that no interlocks are triggered. 5.6 BEAM SHIELDING The vacuum chamber or beam-shield (beam screen) geometry for the LHC circulating beam should be smooth to minimise beam–induced geometrical wake-fields. General guidelines should be the following: all cavities, however short, should be shielded whenever feasible and the angle of transition between different chamber cross-sections should not exceed 15º. This tapering angle should also be applied to the extremities of the jaws. The cross-section of the beam pipes and beam shielding should be kept as small as possible however not going closer than 50 mm to the circulating beams (adequate material choice should be made according to scaling in section 5.2). Pumping slots with a surface area of up to 20% of the pumping shields are acceptable in terms of longitudinal and transverse impedance provided the slots have rounded corners and their major axis is in the beam direction. The slots should be located as far from the beams as possible. Bellows, required for thermal expansion compensation and alignment, must be shielded with an impedance of 0.1 m. The electrical resistance of the contacts if any should be < 100 . Adequate cooling of the beam shielding should be implemented taking into account the beam induced heat load described in section 3.5. Finally, beam shields should not interfere with the aperture requirements. 5.7 REQUIRED JAW MOVEMENT RANGE AND SETTING PRECISION The following values are based on the ~0.5 mm vertical beam sigma at the TDI location and a setting of ±7 , and do NOT include the aperture requirements from the ALICE ZDC. Table 3. Summary of jaw movement ranges and precisions. Value (mm) Nominal opening between jaws (±7 ) 8.0 Minimum opening between jaws 2.0 LHC Project Document No. LHCPage 11 of 12 Maximum opening between jaws 60 Nominal individual jaw positions (no bumps) ±4.0 Maximum individual jaw positions Minimum individual jaw positions (across axis) ±30 * 4.0 Surface flatness ±0.10 Single jaw position knowledge precision ±0.10 Single jaw setting reproducibility ±0.05 The upper (+) jaw must move to a position -4 mm below the axis; the lower (-) jaw to a position +4 mm above the axis. * 5.8 INTERLOCKS AND RELIABILITY The TDI is a critical safety element for the LHC and must be fully integrated into the machine protection system, with appropriate interlocks for its positioning as a function of machine mode. The positioning and interlocking must be done with high reliability; a separate specification concerning the interlocking of the injection protection elements will detail this information. 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