Title :
RHIC power supplies-failure statistics for runs 4, 5 and 6
Author :
Bruno, D. ; Ganetis, G. ; Heppner, G. ; Louie, W. ; Sandberg, J. ; Schultheiss, C.
Author_Institution :
Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton
Abstract :
The two rings in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) require a total of 933 power supplies to supply current to highly inductive superconducting magnets. Failure statistics for the RHIC power supplies will be presented for the last three RHIC runs. The failures of the power supplies will be analyzed. The statistics associated with the power supply failures will be presented. Comparisons of the failure statistics for the last three RHIC runs will be shown. Improvements that have increased power supply availability will be discussed. Further improvements to increase the availability of the power supplies will also be discussed.
Keywords :
failure analysis; ion accelerators; power supplies to apparatus; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; RHIC; failure statistics; inductive superconducting magnets; ion accelerator; power supplies; Assembly; Current supplies; Equations; Failure analysis; Laboratories; Magnetic analysis; Power supplies; Protection; Statistics; Superconducting magnets;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0916-7
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2007.4440305
