Dynamic simulations of the HL-LHC cryogenic system during beam operation

Abstract

This paper presents a set of dynamic simulations performed on the future High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) cryogenic system. The objectives of these simulations are to provide main pressure, temperature and flow transients over the cryogenic distribution system around the collision points 1 and 5 during the forecast beam operation. These simulations serve the different cryogenic system specifications where strong dynamic heat loads will induce significant transient modes. This dynamic model embeds the 1.9K cooling loops (inner triplets, D1-D2 magnets and crab cavities), the beam screen cooling loops between 60K and 80K or between 4.5K and 20K and the cryogenic distribution line. As result, a series of recommendations is given to mitigate sufficiently the transients such as the use of significant preloading of magnets in association with feed-forward controls.