U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Beam Loss and Machine Protection
Sponsoring University:
University of California, Davis
Course Name:
Beam Loss and Machine Protection
Instructors:
Rudiger Schmidt and Jorg Wenninger, CERN; Doug Curry, Oak Ridge National Lab; William Barletta, USPAS/Fermilab/MIT; Maxim Marchevsky, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; John Seeman, SLAC
Purpose and Audience
This course is intended for physicists and engineers who are or may be engaged in the design and /or operation of accelerators with high-power beams or accelerator systems with very large stored energy. At the completion of the course participants should be able to understand the physical phenomena that can damage machine subsystems or interrupt operations and to analyze an accelerator facility to produce a register of technical risks and the corresponding risk mitigation and management strategies.
Prerequisites
Upper division undergraduate courses in electromagnetism (at the level of "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by David J. Griffiths) and the USPAS course "Fundamentals of Accelerators" or "Accelerator Physics".
It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they meet the course prerequisites or have equivalent experience.
Objectives
Many particle accelerators operate with very high beam power and very high energy stored in particle beams as well as in magnet systems. In the future, stored energy in high-intensity accelerators is likely to increase. Protecting the accelerator equipment from the consequences of uncontrolled release of the energy is essential. This course will explore the methods and technologies to manage the technical risks associated with accelerators with high-power beams or large stored energy.
Instructional Method
The course consists of lectures in both morning (3 hrs. per class day), and afternoon sessions (2 hrs. per class day). In addition, the afternoon sessions will include case studies of protecting accelerator systems with large stored energy and very high-power beams.
Course Content
During this course the methods and technologies to identify, mitigate, monitor and manage the technical risks associated with the operation of accelerators with high-power beams or subsystems with large stored energy will be presented. Themes for the lectures 1) What can go wrong? 2) What are the consequences? 3) Mitigation, 4) Controls and operation, and 5) Safety engineering. Specific topics will cover beam dynamics and beam losses, beam material interaction, heating, activation, beam loss induced damage mechanisms and their calculation, beam transfer and fast kickers, detection of failures, beam cleaning and collimation, protection of superconducting magnets and other hardware, case studies in machine protection, and machine protection and operation.
Reading Requirements
(to be provided by the USPAS) "Proceedings of the 2014 Joint International Accelerator School: Beam Loss and Accelerator Protection" Vol 2, CERN Yellow Paper (2016), edited by Rudiger Schmidt.
Credit Requirements
Students will be evaluated based on homework (30%) and case study assignments (70%).
UC Davis course number: 163EDN671 Advanced Topics
Indiana University course number: Physics 671, Advanced Topics in Accelerator Physics
Michigan State University course number: PHY 963, U.S. Particle Accelerator School
MIT course number: 8.790, Accelerator Physics