Detection of Equipment Faults Before Beam Loss
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https://doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2016-002.253Keywords:
Beam-loss, high-power, high-intensity, proton, accelerator, machineprotection, equipment-failure.Abstract
High-power hadron accelerators have strict limits on fractional beam loss. In principle, once a high-quality beam is set up in an acceptable state, beam loss should remain steady. However, in practice, there are many trips in operational machines, owing to excessive beam loss. This paper deals with monitoring equipment health to identify precursor signals that indicate an issue with equipment that will lead to unacceptable beam loss. To this end, avariety of equipment and beam signal measurements are described. In particular, several operational examples from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) of deteriorating equipment functionality leading to beam loss are reported.
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2016-01-29
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