TY  - CONF
AU  - Fraser, M.A.
AU  - Balhan, B.
AU  - Barna, D.
AU  - Bartosik, H.
AU  - Bernhard, J.
AU  - Bertone, C.
AU  - Björkman, D.
AU  - Borburgh, J.C.C.M.
AU  - Brugger, M.
AU  - Brunner, K.
AU  - Charitonidis, N.
AU  - Conan, N.
AU  - Cornelis, K.
AU  - Dutheil, Y.
AU  - Esposito, L.S.
AU  - Garcia Alia, R.
AU  - Gatignon, L.
AU  - Genton, C.M.
AU  - Goddard, B.
AU  - Heßler, C.
AU  - Kadi, Y.
AU  - Kain, V.
AU  - Mereghetti, A.
AU  - Pari, M.
AU  - Patecki, M.
AU  - Prieto, J.
AU  - Redaelli, S.
AU  - Roncarolo, F.
AU  - Rossi, R.
AU  - Scandale, W.
AU  - Solieri, N.
AU  - Spanggaard, J.
AU  - Stein, O.
AU  - Stoel, L.S.
AU  - Velotti, F.M.
AU  - Vincke, H.
ED  - Boland, Mark
ED  - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED  - Button, David
ED  - Dowd, Rohan
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Tan, Eugene
TI  - SPS Slow Extraction Losses and Activation: Update on Recent Improvements
J2  - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
T2  - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 10
LA  - english
AB  - Annual high intensity requests of over 10¹⁹ protons on target (POT) from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) Fixed Target (FT) physics program continue, with the prospect of requests for even higher, unprecedented levels in the coming decade. A concerted and multifaceted R&D effort has been launched to understand and reduce the slow extraction induced radioactivation of the SPS and to anticipate future experimental proposals, such as SHiP* at the SPS Beam Dump Facility (BDF)**, which will request an additional 4·10¹⁹ POT per year. In this contribution, we report on operational improvements and recent advances that have been made to significantly reduce the slow extraction losses, by up to a factor of 3, with the deployment of new extraction concepts, including passive and active (thin, bent crystal) diffusers and extraction on the third-integer resonance with octupoles. In light of the successful tests of the prototype extraction loss reduction schemes, an outlook and implications for future SPS FT operation will be presented.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 2391
EP  - 2394
KW  - extraction
KW  - operation
KW  - octupole
KW  - proton
KW  - alignment
DA  - 2019/06
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-95450-208-0
DO  - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPMP031
UR  - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/wepmp031.pdf
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
AU  - Weikum, M.K.
AU  - Akhter, T.
AU  - Alesini, D.
AU  - Alexandrova, A.S.
AU  - Anania, M.P.
AU  - Andreev, N.E.
AU  - Andriyash, I.A.
AU  - Aschikhin, A.
AU  - Audet, T.
AU  - Aßmann, R.W.
AU  - Bacci, A.
AU  - Barna, I.F.
AU  - Beaton, A.
AU  - Beck, A.
AU  - Beluze, A.
AU  - Bernhard, A.
AU  - Bielawski, S.
AU  - Bisesto, F.G.
AU  - Brandi, F.
AU  - Brinkmann, R.
AU  - Bründermann, E.
AU  - Bussmann, M.H.
AU  - Bussolino, G.
AU  - Büscher, M.
AU  - Chancé, A.
AU  - Chen, M.
AU  - Chiadroni, E.
AU  - Cianchi, A.
AU  - Clarke, J.A.
AU  - Cole, J.
AU  - Couprie, M.-E.
AU  - Croia, M.
AU  - Cros, B.
AU  - Crump, P.A.
AU  - Dattoli, G.
AU  - De Nicola, S.
AU  - Del Dotto, A.
AU  - Delerue, N.
AU  - Dias, J.M.
AU  - Dorda, U.
AU  - Fedele, R.
AU  - Ferran Pousa, A.
AU  - Ferrario, M.
AU  - Filippi, F.
AU  - Fiore, G.
AU  - Fonseca, R.A.
AU  - Galimberti, M.
AU  - Gallo, A.
AU  - Ghaith, A.
AU  - Giove, D.
AU  - Giribono, A.
AU  - Gizzi, L.A.
AU  - Grüner, F.J.
AU  - Habib, A.F.
AU  - Haefner, C.
AU  - Heinemann, T.
AU  - Hidding, B.
AU  - Holzer, B.J.
AU  - Hooker, S.M.
AU  - Hosokai, T.
AU  - Huebner, M.
AU  - Irman, A.
AU  - Jafarinia, F.
AU  - Jaroszynski, D.A.
AU  - Joshi, C.
AU  - Kaluza, M.
AU  - Kando, M.
AU  - Karger, O.S.
AU  - Karsch, S.
AU  - Khazanov, E.
AU  - Khikhlukha, D.
AU  - Knetsch, A.
AU  - Kocon, D.
AU  - Koester, P.
AU  - Kononenko, O.S.
AU  - Korn, G.
AU  - Kostyukov, I.
AU  - Kruchinin, K.O.
AU  - Labate, L.
AU  - Le Blanc, C.
AU  - Lechner, C.
AU  - Leemans, W.
AU  - Lehrach, A.
AU  - Li, X.
AU  - Libov, V.
AU  - Lifschitz, A.
AU  - Litvinenko, V.
AU  - Lu, W.
AU  - Lundh, O.
AU  - Maier, A.R.
AU  - Malka, V.
AU  - Manahan, G.G.
AU  - Mangles, S.P.D.
AU  - Marchetti, B.
AU  - Martinez de la Ossa, A.
AU  - Martins, J.L.
AU  - Mason, P.D.
AU  - Massimo, F.
AU  - Mathieu, F.
AU  - Maynard, G.
AU  - Mazzotta, Z.
AU  - Molodozhentsev, A.Y.
AU  - Mostacci, A.
AU  - Murphy, C.D.
AU  - Müller, A.-S.
AU  - Najmudin, Z.
AU  - Nghiem, P.A.P.
AU  - Nguyen, F.
AU  - Niknejadi, P.
AU  - Osterhoff, J.
AU  - Oumbarek Espinos, D.
AU  - Papadopoulos, D.N.
AU  - Patrizi, B.
AU  - Pattathil, R.
AU  - Petrillo, V.
AU  - Pocsai, M.A.
AU  - Poder, K.
AU  - Pompili, R.
AU  - Pribyl, L.
AU  - Pugacheva, D.
AU  - Romeo, S.
AU  - Rossetti Conti, M.
AU  - Rossi, A.R.
AU  - Rossmanith, R.
AU  - Roussel, E.
AU  - Sahai, A.A.
AU  - Sarri, G.
AU  - Schaper, L.
AU  - Scherkl, P.
AU  - Schramm, U.
AU  - Schroeder, C.B.
AU  - Scifo, J.
AU  - Serafini, L.
AU  - Sheng, Z.M.
AU  - Siders, C.
AU  - Silva, L.O.
AU  - Silva, T.
AU  - Simon, C.
AU  - Sinha, U.
AU  - Specka, A.
AU  - Streeter, M.J.V.
AU  - Svystun, E.N.
AU  - Symes, D.
AU  - Szwaj, C.
AU  - Tauscher, G.E.
AU  - Terzani, D.
AU  - Thompson, N.
AU  - Toci, G.
AU  - Tomassini, P.
AU  - Torres, R.
AU  - Ullmann, D.
AU  - Vaccarezza, C.
AU  - Vannini, M.
AU  - Vieira, J.M.
AU  - Villa, F.
AU  - Wahlstrom, C.-G.
AU  - Walczak, R.
AU  - Walker, P.A.
AU  - Wang, K.
AU  - Welsch, C.P.
AU  - Wiggins, S.M.
AU  - Wolfenden, J.
AU  - Xia, G.X.
AU  - Yabashi, M.
AU  - Zhu, J.
AU  - Zigler, A.
ED  - Boland, Mark
ED  - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED  - Button, David
ED  - Dowd, Rohan
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Tan, Eugene
TI  - Status of the Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Study
J2  - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
T2  - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 10
LA  - english
AB  - The Horizon 2020 Project EuPRAXIA (European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications) is producing a conceptual design report for a highly compact and cost-effective European facility with multi-GeV electron beams accelerated using plasmas. EuPRAXIA will be set up as a distributed Open Innovation platform with two construction sites, one with a focus on beam-driven plasma acceleration (PWFA) and another site with a focus on laser-driven plasma acceleration (LWFA). User areas at both sites will provide access to FEL pilot experiments, positron generation and acceleration, compact radiation sources, and test beams for HEP detector development. Support centres in four different countries will complement the pan-European implementation of this infrastructure.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 3638
EP  - 3642
KW  - plasma
KW  - laser
KW  - electron
KW  - acceleration
KW  - site
DA  - 2019/06
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-95450-208-0
DO  - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPGW026
UR  - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thpgw026.pdf
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
AU  - Hirlaender, S.
AU  - Fraser, M.A.
AU  - Goddard, B.
AU  - Kain, V.
AU  - Prieto, J.
AU  - Stoel, L.S.
AU  - Szakaly, M.
AU  - Velotti, F.M.
ED  - Boland, Mark
ED  - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED  - Button, David
ED  - Dowd, Rohan
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Tan, Eugene
TI  - Automatisation of the SPS ElectroStatic Septa Alignment
J2  - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
T2  - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 10
LA  - english
AB  - An electrostatic septum composed of 5 separate tanks is used to slow-extract the 400 GeV proton beam resonantly on the third integer resonance from the CERN SPS. The septa are all mounted on a single support structure that can move the ensemble coherently and, in addition, the internal anode and cathode of each tank can be moved independently. The septum is aligned to the beam by measuring and minimising the induced beam loss signals in the extraction region following an alignment procedure that is usually carried out manually at the beginning of each year. The large number of positional degrees of freedom complicates the procedure and until recently each tank was aligned one after the other semi-manually, typically requiring 8 hours. It is not uncommon that the septum has to be re-aligned later in the run taking time away from physics programme. To tackle this issue, a simplified beam dynamics and scattering simulation routine was developed to permit error studies with a large number of seeds to be carried out in a reasonable computation time. In this contribution, the simulation model will be described before the results of its exploitation to understand the efficacy of alignment procedures based on different optimization algorithms are discussed and compared to the present operational procedure. The effort culminated with the implementation of an automated alignment procedure based on a Powell optimisation algorithm that reduced the time needed to align the septum by over an order of magnitude.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 4001
EP  - 4004
KW  - alignment
KW  - simulation
KW  - extraction
KW  - operation
KW  - septum
DA  - 2019/06
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-95450-208-0
DO  - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPRB080
UR  - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thprb080.pdf
ER  -