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The Software for the CERN Detector Safety System
The CERN Detector Safety System (DSS) has been developed to monitor the state of the LHC detectors and protect their components against emer gency situations which other less reliable systems could possibly fail to handle, or which were not co vered by any other system. The DSS consists of two main components: a PLC-based Front-End and a supervisor Back-End. The two parts communicate via the OPC mechanism. The Front-End is the core of the DSS, to which all the runtime safety-critical actions are delegated. These are encoded in an "Alarm-Action Matrix", that can be seen as a set of user-defined rules relating the Input Channels (analogue and digital senso rs) to the Output Channels (actuators, typically on/off interlock switches). One of the user requireme nts is the possibility of modifying these rules at any time, without stopping the system. New Input and Output Channels can also be incrementally added to the system without perturbing the prev iously existing part. To fulfil these requirements without detriment to the safety-critical part, the PLC software has been designed in a completely datadriven way. This approach allowed the PLC code to be kept as simple as possible and independent from the user-defined rules. The rules, as well as the parameteri zation for the Input and Output Channels, are stored into PLC "datablocks", whose contents drive the execution of the PLC code. The supervisor Back-End, based on the CERN-chosen PVSS SCADA system, represents both the “Configuration Interface” and the “Operator Display” for the DSS. The User is able to define and parameterize Input and Output Channels and to modify the set of rules defining the Alarm-Action Matrix. These modifications, after passing some c onsistency checks, are accepted by the Back-End, permanently stored in PVSS "datapoints", and finally mirrored into the PLC datablocks via the OPC mechanism. In addition to this, the Back-End is constantly informed, again through OPC, of any changes in the status of the monitored system . The Back-End then displays all the relevant information to the User, both via an alarm screen and via an interactive synoptic system. This paper describes in greater details some of the ideas behind the design and the implementation of this system.
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Measurement of chromatic effects in LEP
The chromaticity produced by the insertions and the lattice of LEP is corrected in the FODO lattice of the arcs which has horizontal and vertical phase advances of 90/spl deg/ and 60/spl deg/ for the LEP optics presently used. This is done with two horizontal and three vertical sextupole families. To check this correction scheme the non-linear chromaticities have been measured by observing the betatron tunes as a function of RF-frequency, i.e. of momentum deviation. The differences between the results and the expected effects of the sextupoles are interpreted in terms of octupole and decapole components in the dipole magnets. To check the distribution around the ring of the chromaticities and their corrections the betatron phase advances have been measured as a function of momentum deviation. This was done by observing an excited betatron oscillation for 1024 turns in all beam position monitors for different RF-frequencies. The results clearly show the negative chromaticity produced in the straight sections and its correction in the arcs. The parasitic sextupole components are found to be spread uniformly in the arcs within the measurement errors. Under this condition one finds that they have a negligible effect on the dynamic aperture.
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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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Do We Understand the Luminosity Imbalance
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First trial of BOM harmonic analysis
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Overview of LEP operation in 1998
After the installation of 32 additional RF cavities in the 1997-1998 shutdown LEP was operated at a beam energy of 94.5 GeV. The total integrated luminosity for the year 1998 clearly surpassed its target and reached 198 pb/sup -1/. Vertical beam-beam tuneshifts of more than 0.07 were obtained. The performance did not seem to be beam-beam limited, but the total beam current was limited by power dissipation problems to around 6 mA. A high phase advance optics (102/spl deg/, 90/spl deg/), with a smaller natural emittance, was used for regular operation in 1998. This contributed to the excellent performance of LEP, together with the further reduction of both the horizontal and vertical beta function at the interaction points. No dynamic aperture problems were encountered.
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The contribution of strange quarks to the proton magnetic moment
This paper deals with how to extract the s-s(bar) contribution to the proton magnetic moment from the experiments
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The General QCD parametrization and the hierarchy of its parameters: Why some simple models of hadrons work so well
After summarizing the basic points of the general QCD parametrization (GP) we discuss systematically its applications to the properties of the lowest families of baryons and mesons. We show how the hierarchy of the parameters in the GP emerges clearly in the properties of hadrons. Among other things, it explains why simple models can work reasonably well and clarifies the relationship between current and constituent quarks. More details on the hadron properties discussed with the GP appear from the list of secrions at the beginning of the paper.
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Demodulation and detection of correlations in a beam by a scattering detector
Abstract The demodulation and the detection of correlations in a beam using a detector that scatters the beam is discussed employing a localized wave packet description of the beam. It is shown that a simple very general formula for the spectral excitation function of the detector can be given; by spectral excitation function we mean the rate of excitation of the detector to a given level. The formula is derived without making specific assumptions on the nature of the detector. The spectral excitation function is naturally decomposed as a sum of four terms: Two of these (the B terms in what follows) depend only on the wavefunction and stochastic distribution of the incident beam; they are proportional to the square (and higher powers) of the flux and contain all the information on the self-beat, Forrester-type effects and demodulation. More precisely, one of these B terms contains the information on the demodulation and the other on the beat effects. The remaining two terms (to be called the A terms) describe the conventional inelastic scattering (proportional to the flux) and some coherent corrections to it (proportional to higher powers of the flux): These A terms behave as noise if the signal of interest is that described by the B terms. The theory is illustrated with many examples to known situations; particular attention is given to some conceptual questions involved.
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A description of the ferromagnetic levitation electrometer used in the search of quarks in matter
Abstract We describe the main features of the ferromagnetic levitation electrometer and give the basic parameters and construction data.
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Separation of kinematics and dynamics in the relativistic treatment of composite particles