Performance issues, downtime recovery and tuning in the Next Linear Collider (NLC)
- and others
The Next Linear Collider (NLC) consists of several large subsystems, each of which must be operational and tuned in order to deliver luminosity. Considering specific examples, we study how the different subsystems respond to various perturbations such as ground motion, temperature changes, drifts of beam-position monitors etc., and we estimate the overall time requirements for tuning and downtime recovery of each subsystem. The succession of subsystem failures and recoveries as well as other performance degradations can be modeled as a Markov process, where each subsystem is characterized, e.g., by its failure rate and recovery time. Such a model allows the prediction of the overall NLC availability. Our mathematical description of a linear collider is benchmarked against the known performance of the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC).
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515; FG02-92ER40715
- OSTI ID:
- 489615
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-7455; CONF-970503-10; ON: DE97006478; TRN: 97:012514
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. IEEE particle accelerator conference, Vancouver (Canada), 12-16 May 1997; Other Information: PBD: May 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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