Availability Modeling Approach for Future Circular Colliders Based on the LHC Operation Experience
Niemi A, Apollonio A, Gutleber J, Sollander P, CERN
Penttinen J-P, Ramentor Oy
Virtanen S, Tampere University of Technology
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 19, 121003
27 December, 2016
“Reaching the challenging integrated luminosity production goals of a future circular hadron collider (FCC-hh) and high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) requires a thorough understanding of today’s most powerful high energy physics research infrastructure, the LHC accelerator complex at CERN. This paper introduces the FCC reliability and availability study, which takes a fresh new look at assessing and modeling reliability and availability of particle accelerator infrastructures. ELMAS version 4.8, used for this study, permits specifying production functions, semi-Markov chain transition logic and conditional operation schedule specifications with user-specific Java snippets.”