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Title: Dealing with abort kicker prefire in the Superconducting Super Collider

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OSTI ID:10162353

The Superconducting Super Collider uses a single-turn extraction abort system to divert the circulating beam to a massive graphite absorber at normal termination of the operating cycle or in case of any of a number of predefined fault modes. The Collider rings must be designed to be tolerant to abort extraction kicker prefires and misfires because of the large circulating beam energy. We have studied the consequences of beam loss in the accelerator due to such prefires and misfires in terms of material heating and radiation generation using full scale machine simulations and Monte-Carlo energy deposition calculations. Some results from these calculations as well as possible protective measures for minimizing the damaging effects of kicker prefire and misfire are discussed in this paper.

Research Organization:
Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC35-89ER40486
OSTI ID:
10162353
Report Number(s):
SSCL-Preprint-329; CONF-930511-61; ON: DE93014083; TRN: 93:015254
Resource Relation:
Conference: PAC `93: international particle accelerator conference,Washington, DC (United States),17-20 May 1993; Other Information: PBD: May 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English