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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-MOCD3
TitleObservations and efforts to reduce sudden beam loss at SuperKEKB
Authors
  • H. Ikeda, H. Fukuma, K. Shibata, M. Shirai, Y. Suetsugu, M. Tobiyama, T. Mitsuhashi, G. Mitsuka, M. Yao, T. Ishibashi, S. Terui, K. Uno, T. Abe
    High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
AbstractThe SuperKEKB accelerator recorded a peak luminosity more than twice that of the KEKB accelerator, but there are various challenges in updating the luminosity beyond that. One of the challenges is to eliminate sudden beam loss (SBL), in which a significant part of the circulating beam is lost in a few short turns. SBLs of the positron ring were investigated and found that the SBLs are characterized by vacuum pressure bursts at specific locations in the ring and an increase in beam size. From these measurements, it can be inferred that some phenomenon occurred at the location where the pressure burst was occurring, causing the beam size to increase and the beam to be lost in the narrow aperture of the ring. We performed knocker tests to artificially cause SBL and looked for possible sources of SBL. Based on several assumptions, we performed several works, including swapping the chamber up and down, cleaning the inside of the chamber, and knocking the chamber before operation. Of these works, the cleaning inside the chamber was found to be likely to be effective. This paper summarizes the measurement of SBL when it occurred and the countermeasures that contributed to its reduction.
Paperdownload: MOCD3.pdf
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Conference16th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Series
LocationTaipei, Taiwan
Date01-06 Jun 2025
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board* Ming-Chyuan Lin - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * Yoichi Sato - KEK * Jui-Che Huang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * David Button - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation * Ping-Shun Chuang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Online ISBN978-3-95450-248-6
Online ISSN2673-5490
Received28 May 2025
Revised04 June 2025
Accepted05 June 2025
Issued05 November 2025
DOI10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-MOCD3
Pages57-60