The protection system for the superconducting elements of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Author

Dahlerup-Petersen, K. ; Denz, R. ; Gomez-Costa, J.L. ; Hagedorn, D. ; Proudlock, P. ; Rodrinuez-Mateos, F. ; Schmidt, R. ; Sonnemann, F.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3200

Abstract

The protection system for the superconducting elements of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), and its associated equipment are presented: quench detectors, cold diodes, quench heaters and related power supplies, extraction resistors and associated current breakers. Features such as radiation resistance, redundancy and required reliability are discussed

Keywords

accelerator magnets; diodes; overcurrent protection; power supplies to apparatus; proton accelerators; redundancy; reliability; resistors; storage rings; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; LHC; Large Hadron Collider; cold diodes; current breakers; extraction resistors; power supplies; protection system; quench detectors; quench heaters; radiation resistance; redundancy; reliability; superconducting elements; Diodes; Flexible printed circuits; Large Hadron Collider; Magnetic switching; Magnets; Power system protection; Resistors; Strips; Switches; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.792249

Filename

792249