7–11 Sept 2025
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Robotic Solution for BLM Detector Maintenance in High Radiation Areas

MOPMO09
8 Sept 2025, 16:00
2h
Mountford Hall, Liverpool Guild of Students

Mountford Hall, Liverpool Guild of Students

University of Liverpool
Poster Presentation MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection MOPMO

Speaker

Ewald Effinger (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

CERN’s Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is essential for the protection of machine elements against energy deposition due to beam losses. The protection function relies on approximately 5000 ionisation chamber type detectors installed along all of CERN's accelerators. Some of the areas where the detectors are installed have a high background dose (above 2mSv/h). Installation and maintenance times must be minimised to ensure person-nel safety. For this reason, a new solution was designed that allows the manipulation of detectors and their sup-ports by robotic action. Every aspect of the solution has been designed to reduce intervention time, using a rapid locking mechanism and the possibility of transporting the material by robot. The paper presents the design, prototype characterisation results, identified issues, and mitigation methods developed for the automated manipulation of these detectors.

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Author

William Vigano' (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Co-authors

Christos Zamantzas (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Ewald Effinger (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Frantisek Sanda (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Jannis Piehl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Mario Di Castro (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Mohammad Sta (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Sergio Di Giovannantonio (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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