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Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is affected by the electron cloud (EC) phenomenon that can provoke beam instabilities, detrimental heat loads and pressure increases in the vacuum system. An innovative dedicated system called vacuum pilot sector (VPS) provides a continuous monitoring of the electron...
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.114802 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2746086 |
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author | Buratin, Elena Baglin, Vincent Henrist, Bernard Chiggiato, Paolo Fasoli, Ambrogio |
author_facet | Buratin, Elena Baglin, Vincent Henrist, Bernard Chiggiato, Paolo Fasoli, Ambrogio |
author_sort | Buratin, Elena |
collection | CERN |
description | The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is affected by the electron cloud (EC) phenomenon that can provoke beam instabilities, detrimental heat loads and pressure increases in the vacuum system. An innovative dedicated system called vacuum pilot sector (VPS) provides a continuous monitoring of the electron flux and of the pressure signals thanks to electron pickup and vacuum gauges. The VPS system is installed in a room temperature, field-free part of the LHC storage ring. Several technical surfaces, such as ex situ nonevaporable getter (NEG), amorphous carbon coating and copper, are simultaneously tested. The main outcomes of this study show that the EC signals have: (1) a linear dependence upon the number of bunches and upon the bunch population in the multipacting regime, (2) a multipacting threshold at a given bunch population, (3) a reduction under beam conditioning, (4) a strong dependence on the filling pattern and beam energy. The comparison between different surfaces shows that amorphous carbon coating reduces drastically the EC buildup, thanks to its low secondary electron yield (SEY) and photoelectron yield (PY), while copper and ex situ NEG coated surfaces suffer of EC multipacting, even after several months of operation. The multipacting rate coefficients are higher for copper than for ex situ NEG, as predicted from the SEY estimation. Other detailed experimental observations are discussed in this paper. |
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publishDate | 2020 |
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spelling | oai-inspirehep.net-18322972020-12-11T13:33:16Zdoi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.114802http://cds.cern.ch/record/2746086engBuratin, ElenaBaglin, VincentHenrist, BernardChiggiato, PaoloFasoli, AmbrogioElectron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe propertiesAccelerators and Storage RingsThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is affected by the electron cloud (EC) phenomenon that can provoke beam instabilities, detrimental heat loads and pressure increases in the vacuum system. An innovative dedicated system called vacuum pilot sector (VPS) provides a continuous monitoring of the electron flux and of the pressure signals thanks to electron pickup and vacuum gauges. The VPS system is installed in a room temperature, field-free part of the LHC storage ring. Several technical surfaces, such as ex situ nonevaporable getter (NEG), amorphous carbon coating and copper, are simultaneously tested. The main outcomes of this study show that the EC signals have: (1) a linear dependence upon the number of bunches and upon the bunch population in the multipacting regime, (2) a multipacting threshold at a given bunch population, (3) a reduction under beam conditioning, (4) a strong dependence on the filling pattern and beam energy. The comparison between different surfaces shows that amorphous carbon coating reduces drastically the EC buildup, thanks to its low secondary electron yield (SEY) and photoelectron yield (PY), while copper and ex situ NEG coated surfaces suffer of EC multipacting, even after several months of operation. The multipacting rate coefficients are higher for copper than for ex situ NEG, as predicted from the SEY estimation. Other detailed experimental observations are discussed in this paper.oai:inspirehep.net:18322972020 |
spellingShingle | Accelerators and Storage Rings Buratin, Elena Baglin, Vincent Henrist, Bernard Chiggiato, Paolo Fasoli, Ambrogio Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
title | Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
title_full | Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
title_fullStr | Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
title_full_unstemmed | Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
title_short | Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
title_sort | electron flux and pressure dynamic in the lhc vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties |
topic | Accelerators and Storage Rings |
url | https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.114802 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2746086 |
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