Proceedings of the 2014 Joint International Accelerator School: Beam Loss and Accelerator Protection (JAS 2014), Newport Beach, CA, USA, 5-14 Nov 2014

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the proceedings of a 2014 school focused on beam loss and accelerator protection, emphasizing methods to identify, mitigate, and manage risks in high-power particle accelerators.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive overview of techniques and strategies for protecting accelerators from beam-related damages, tailored for high-energy, high-power systems.

Findings

Presented methods for risk identification and mitigation.

Highlighted technologies for monitoring and managing beam losses.

Educated participants on analyzing and safeguarding accelerator facilities.

Abstract

Many particle accelerators operate with very high beam power and very high energy stored in particle beams as well as in magnet systems. In the future, the beam power in high intensity accelerators will further increase. The protection of the accelerator equipment from the consequences of uncontrolled release of the energy is essential. This was the motivation for organizing a first school on beam losses and accelerator protection (in general referred to as machine protection). During the school the methods and technologies to identify, mitigate, monitor and manage the technical risks associated with the operation of accelerators with high-power beams or subsystems with large stored energy were presented. At the completion of the school the participants should have been able to understand the physical phenomena that can damage machine subsystems or interrupt operations and to analyze an accelerator facility to produce a register of technical risks and the corresponding risk mitigation and management strategies.