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Damage mechanisms in superconductors due to the impact of high energy proton beams and radiation tolerance of cryogenic diodes used in particle accelerator magnet systems

Will, Andreas

Abstract (englisch):

High energy hadron accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and its planned upgrade to achieve higher luminosity, the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), require superconducting magnets to provide strong magnetic fields, needed to steer and focus the particle beams at these high energies. During operation the superconducting magnets and their components are exposed to radiation resulting from primary and secondary particles from two main sources of beam losses.
During normal operation, steady state losses resulting from interaction of the particle beams with residual gas molecules or from particle debris in interaction points affect the accelerator magnets and their components along the machine. In case of failures, significant parts of the beam can be lost in a short time, resulting in localized damage due to heating from energy deposition, which in turn causes thermo-mechanical stresses and strains.
In the HL-LHC, novel focusing superconducting quadrupole magnets will be installed, based on Nb$_3$Sn and located close to the interaction points. Furthermore, the beam intensity will be doubled. Both, steady state losses and the severity of losses due to fast failures scale with the beam intensity. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000134497
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Laboratorium für Applikationen der Synchrotronstrahlung (LAS)
Publikationstyp Hochschulschrift
Publikationsdatum 02.07.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000134497
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang IV, 144 S.
Art der Arbeit Dissertation
Fakultät Fakultät für Physik (PHYSIK)
Institut Laboratorium für Applikationen der Synchrotronstrahlung (LAS)
Prüfungsdatum 23.04.2021
Schlagwörter CERN, LHC, HL-LHC, particle accelerator, superconductor, superconducting magnets, radiation damage, magnet protection
Referent/Betreuer Müller, A.-S.
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