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THE CLIC MACHINE PROTECTION
INTRODUCTION The proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) [1, 2] is based on a two-beam acceleration scheme. The energy of two high-intensity, low-energy drive beams is extracted and transferred to the two low-intensity, high-energy main beams. The machine protection has to cope with a wide variety of failures, from real-time failures (RF breakdowns, kicker misfiring), to slow equipment failures, to beam instabilities (caused by e.g. temperature drifts, slow ground motions). Due to the many different types of accelerator components and the beams of various characteristics throughout the entire complex, the CLIC machine protection is an extensive subject. The machine protection has the mission to protect the various machine components from damage caused by ill controlled beams. The severity of the damage is given by the financial impact of the damage and the reduction in the operational availability of the facility. The risk equivalent is given by the product of the fault rate and the impact of the fault (i.e. in statistical terms: risk is the expectation value of the fault impact). This concept is illustrated by some examples for downtime in Table 1.
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The BOM 1000 Turn Display : a Tool to Visualize the Transverse Phase-Space Topology at LEP
The LEP BOM 1000 Turn facility enables the User to acquire the position of the beam at each beam position monitor over a number of consecutive turns. By kicking the beam and acquiring the first 1000 turns after the kick, the dynamic behavior of the beam in such a condition can be studied. In particular, by selecting a position monitor and plotting the position of the beam at a given turn against the position shifted by one (or n) turn(s), the evolution of the beam in the phase-space can be observed. Fixed points in the phase-space can be put in evidence, as well as the beam behavior in their neighbourhood. Quantities like the beam damping, or the beam detuning as function of the position amplitude can also be studied in this way. Significant examples from real life will be shown.
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First trial of BOM harmonic analysis
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Betatron function measurement at LEP using the BOM 1000 turns facility
A new method for measuring the beta function around LEP is presented. The method uses phase difference measurements between three adjacent beam position monitors to obtain the value for the beta function at the monitors and in their neighbourhood, e.g. at interaction points, electrostatic separators etc. The phase differences are obtained from measuring coherent betatron oscillations for 1024 turns at the 504 beam position monitors. After a discussion of the accuracy of the method the measured values for the beta function are compared with the theoretical values for different lattices. In regular parts of the lattice (e.g. arcs) the beating of the beta function measured using this method agrees well with the beating obtained by another method using a fit of the phase over 15 monitors.<<ETX>>
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Non-linear Resonances with Stong Radiation Damping in LEP
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Determination of coupled-lattice properties using turn-by-turn data
A formalism for extracting coupled betatron parameters from multiturn, shock excited, beam position monitor data is described. The most important results are nonperturbative in that they do not rely on the underlying ideal lattice model. Except for damping, which is assumed to be exponential and small enough to be removed empirically, the description is symplectic. As well as simplifying the description, this leads to self-consistency checks that are applied to the data. The most important of these is a {open_quotes}magic ratio{close_quotes} of Fourier coefficients that is required to be a lattice invariant, the same at every beam position monitor. All formulas are applied to both real and simulated data. The real data was acquired June, 1992 at LEP as part of decoupling studies, using the LEP beam orbit measurement system. Simulated data, obtained by numerical tracking (TEAPOT) in the same (except for unknown errors) lattice, agrees well with real data when subjected to identical analysis. For both datasets, deviations between extracted and design parameters and deviations from self-consistency can be accounted for by noise and signal processing limitations. This investigation demonstrates that the LEP beam position system yields reliable local coupling measurements. It can be conservatively assumed that systems of similar design at the SSC and LHC will provide the measurements needed for local decoupling.
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Field theory and the nonrelativistic quark model: A parametrization of the meson masses.
We apply the method developed in previous papers (Phys. Rev. D 40, 2997 (1989); 40, 3111 (1989)) to write a general parametrization of the masses of the lowest meson nonets. We compare the mass formulas obtained in this way with those used currently in a nonrelativistic quark model (NRQM). As in the previous work, the aim is to separate the features specific to the NRQM from those that follow from a relativistic field theory satisfying a few rather general conditions (satisfied by QCD). For the meson masses it turns out that the formulas obtained from field theory have essentially the same structure and number of parameters as those in the NRQM. This explains the good fit that the NRQM provides in this case; the internal {ital v}/{ital c} of the {ital q{bar q}} pair is irrelevant. As a by- product, the mixing angle for the {ital I}=0 mesons (e.g., {eta} and {eta}{prime}) predicted from the masses turns out to be model independent to first order in flavor breaking. We discuss the question of the linear versus quadratic or, say, square-root mixing angles.