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Title	Amorphous Carbon Coating in SPS
Related title	AMOURPHOUS CARBON COATING IN SPS
Author(s)	Vollenberg, Wil (CERN) ; Chiggiato, Paolo (CERN) ; Costa Pinto, Pedro (CERN) ; Cruikshank, Paul (CERN) ; Moreno, Harold (CERN) ; Pasquino, Chiara (CERN) ; Perez Espinos, Jaime (CERN) ; Taborelli, Mauro (CERN)
Publication	Geneva : JACoW, 2021
Number of pages	4
In:	JACoW IPAC 2021 (2021) 3475-3478
In:	12th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2021), Online, 24 - 28 May 2021, pp.3475-3478
DOI	10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB338 (publication)
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	Within the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) project, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) needs to be upgraded to inject into the LHC higher intensity and brighter 25-ns bunch spaced beams. To mitigate the Electron Multipacting (E.M.) phenomenon, a well-known limiting factor for high-intensity positively charged beams, CERN developed carbon coatings with a low Secondary Electron Yield (SEY). During the 2016 & 2017 year-end technical stops, such coatings were deposited on the inner wall of the vacuum chambers of some SPS quadrupole and dipole magnets by a dedicated in-situ setup. A much larger scale deployment was implemented during the Long Shutdown 2 (2019-2020) to coat all beam pipes of focussing quadrupoles (QF) and their adjacent short straight sections. In this contribution, we remind the motivation of the project, and present the results and the quality control of the carbon coating campaign during the latter phase of implementation.
Copyright/License	publication: © 2021 (License: CC-BY-3.0)

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