Movable collimator system for SuperKEKB
Open Access
- 13 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
- Vol. 23 (5), 053501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.053501
Abstract
Movable collimators for the SuperKEKB main ring, which is a two-ring collider consisting of a 4 GeV positron and 7 GeV electron storage ring, were designed to fit an antechamber scheme in the beam pipes, to suppress background noise in a particle detector complex named Belle II, and to avoid quenches, derived from stray particles, in the superconducting final focusing magnets. We developed horizontal and vertical collimators having a pair of horizontally or vertically opposed movable jaws with radiofrequency shields. The collimators have a large structure that protrudes into the circulating beam and a large impedance. Therefore, we estimated the impedance using an electromagnetic field simulator, and the impedance of the newly developed collimators is lower compared with that of our conventional ones because a part of each movable jaw is placed inside the antechamber structure. Ten horizontal collimators and three vertical collimators were installed in total, and we installed them in the rings taking the phase advance to the final focusing magnets into consideration. The system generally functioned, as expected, at a stored beam current of up to approximately 1 A. In high-current operations at 500 mA or above, the jaws were occasionally damaged by hitting abnormal beams, and we estimated the temperature rise for the collimator's materials using a Monte Carlo simulation code. In order to avoid damage to the jaw, we have started developing a collimator with low atomic number materials.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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