Beam Induced Power Loss Estimation of a Movable Synchrotron Light Extraction Mirror for the LHC

Beam instruments based on synchrotron light are an important part of the beam monitoring diagnostics suite in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In frame of the high luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC) additional synchrotron light diagnostics are demanded, too many to be covered by the present Beam Synchrotron-light Radiation Telescope (BSRT), which utilizes a fixed light extraction mirror. Therefore, an additional synchrotron light diagnostics setup is under development, now with a movable mirror to extract the synchrotron light emitted solely by a superconducting LHC dipole magnet. With higher bunch intensities anticipated in the HL-LHC, the beam induced power losses, and therefore local heat dissipation, play a critical role in the design of the extraction mirror. This paper summarizes the estimation of the bunched-beam induced power losses based on numerical simulations and RF measurements on a prototype light extraction mirror.