CERN Project Document No.

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Switzerland CERN Div./Group or Supplier/Contractor Document No.

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Date: 2006-05-22

Quality Assurance Definition

EQUIPMENT NAMING CONVENTIONS

Abstract
This document defines the general conventions for naming LHC components and
locating them in the collider. It also gives the naming relationship with the drawing
codes related to these components. This document supersedes the LHC Project Report
92 on Naming Conventions for the Large Hadron Collider Project.

Prepared by : Checked by : Approved by :

Roberto Saban Quality Assurance Paul Proudlock
Working Group
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History of Changes

Rev. No. Date Pages Description of Changes

1.0 1999-09-17 First release. This document replaces the LHC Project Report
92 on Naming Conventions.

Updated responsibilities for updating the documents (chapter

1.1 2003-04-03 4).

Included machine prefix in equipment position code (chapter

5.2)
Chapter 5.4 added to define beam colours and special beam
1.2 2004-06-10 vacuum sectors in the IR
The letter O was added to the system table for the naming of
operation related documentation.

2004-07-26 All Submission for check

1.3 2004-08-20 All Submission for approval

2.0 2004-09-20 All Released Version

3.0 2005-03-02 All Naming of positions in the Dump Lines

3.1 2005-05-24 All Some comments/corrections collected following the approval

3.2 2006-05-22 9 Format of the distance from the extracted beam origin was
specified (chapter 5.2.5)
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Table of Contents
1. PURPOSE.................................................................................................4
2. POLICY....................................................................................................4
3. SCOPE .....................................................................................................4
4. RESPONSIBILITIES .................................................................................4
4.1 PROCEDURE FOR THE CREATION OF NEW CODES ....................................... 4
5. NAMING OF COLLIDER COMPONENTS .....................................................5
5.1 EQUIPMENT CODE .................................................................................. 5
5.1.1 GENERAL RULES ............................................................................................... 5
5.1.2 SPECIAL CASES ................................................................................................ 5
5.1.2.1 THE MAIN DIPOLE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5
5.1.2.2 THE SEXTUPOLES AND THE SEPTA…………………………………………………………………………………………………..6
5.1.2.3 NESTED COILS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..6
5.1.3 ASSEMBLIES .................................................................................................... 6
5.2 POSITION ............................................................................................. 6
5.2.1 CERN WIDE COORDINATION OF CODING SCHEMES ............................................... 6
5.2.2 DEFINITION OF COLLIDER PARTS........................................................................ 6
5.2.3 NAMING OF POSITIONS IN THE COLLIDER TUNNEL................................................ 7
5.2.4 NAMING OF POSITIONS IN THE INJECTION LINES ................................................. 8
5.2.5 NAMING OF POSITIONS IN THE DUMP LINES ........................................................ 9
5.2.6 NAMING OF A LAYOUT COMPONENT .................................................................... 9
5.3 FAMILY ............................................................................................... 10
5.4 BEAM NAME AND COLOUR ..................................................................... 10
5.4.1 UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM......................................................................... 10
6. IDENTIFICATION OF DRAWINGS .......................................................... 10
6.1 LAYOUTS ............................................................................................ 11
6.1.1 SCHEMATIC LAYOUTS ...................................................................................... 11
6.1.2 INSTALLATION LAYOUTS.................................................................................. 11
7. ACCESSING THE EQUIPMENT CODE DATABASE ..................................... 11
8. RELATED DOCUMENTATION .................................................................. 11
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1. PURPOSE
This document defines the general conventions for naming LHC components and
locating them in the collider. It also gives the naming relationship with the drawing
codes related to these components. This document supersedes the LHC Project Report
92 on Naming Conventions for the Large Hadron Collider Project [ 1].

2. POLICY
The increasing size and complexity of the machines has led to the naming of their
components and their location using abbreviated names. These are constructed using a
predefined number of alphanumeric characters. Rules are defined for the choice and the
meaning of each character and its position in the name. The abbreviated names are
chosen so that they reflect the nature of the equipment. These names are used as roots
to generate a drawing number related to the equipment, to build LHC Project Document
numbers for the EDMS and as identifiers in the Hardware Baseline.
Once the abbreviated name, also called equipment code, is defined, a string of
alphanumeric characters can be appended to it which gives the physical location of the
component in the collider.

3. SCOPE
The naming conventions described in the present document apply to equipment and
assemblies installed in
– the collider tunnel,
– its injection lines from TT60, TCC6 and TI2 and from TT40 and TI8, as well as
– the external beam dumps.
Schematic and installation layouts also follow the naming conventions described in the
present document.
Naming of buildings and civil engineering works are the object of another document [
2].

4. RESPONSIBILITIES
Any change or revision of the naming conventions must be endorsed first by the
Technical Coordination Committee. The revised version must then be approved by the
Project Leader or by his Deputy for Quality Assurance.

4.1 PROCEDURE FOR THE CREATION OF NEW CODES

Each Project Engineer has the right and the duty to propose the new equipment codes
related to his equipment. Newly created codes must then be checked within the group
to ensure consistency with rules internal to the system to which the equipment belongs.
The proposal for these new codes is then submitted to the Coordinator for Equipment
Codes 1 who verifies the compliance with the rules at the project level and ensures the
creation of the code in the equipment code database.

1
This function is presently fulfilled by R.Saban.
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5. NAMING OF COLLIDER COMPONENTS

A collider component is identified by a string of characters composed of three fields. The
definition of these fields is given in the sections below.

5.1 EQUIPMENT CODE

The abbreviated name denoting a type of collider component is called an equipment
code and is made of up to five letters.
S the first letter indicates the system to which the equipment belongs and
must be chosen from to the list of systems given in Annex 1.
F the second letter defines the family of the equipment within a given
system.
TTT the last three letters defines the type within a family, the model for a
given type and lastly the variant.
The equipment code is also a part of the identifier used for manufactured physical
components [ 3].

5.1.1 GENERAL RULES

The following general rules apply:
1. An equipment code must start with a letter and contain at least two letters
which define the system to which the equipment belongs and its family.
2. Numbers must be avoided in equipment codes. When used, they refer to
either the interaction point or the octant around it. Also, they must always
be followed by a letter.
3. Equipment codes must be unique within a given accelerator.
4. The meaning of each letter is a function of its position in the equipment code
and of the preceding letter(s). It may change from one system to another.
5. Identical equipment must have the same equipment code, and similar but
different equipment must have different equipment codes.
6. Identical components assembled on different composite collider elements
must retain the same equipment code.
7. The letter used to differentiate between variants must be attributed in
alphabetical order, i.e. A for the first variant, B for the second, etc.
Differentiating variants of an equipment with letters like N for new or for
normal, S for standard, F for final must be avoided.

5.1.2 SPECIAL CASES

5.1.2.1 THE MAIN DIPOLE

The magnet system is denoted by the letter M. The main dipole magnets have been
assigned the letter B. The third character in the equipment code for the main dipoles,
MB is reserved to denote the type:
A for dipoles containing both a sextupoles and combined octupole decapole
spool piece.
B for dipoles containing only a sextupole spool piece
The fourth character is used to identify the diode connection scheme which depends on
the sector where the magnet is going to be installed.
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5.1.2.2 THE SEXTUPOLES AND THE SEPTA

The letter S has been traditionally used to denote septum magnets. The injection and
dump septa, which are elements of the LHC ring and not of the injection and dump
lines, are called MSI and MSD respectively.
The letter S in the second position is also been used to for the sextupoles. The
sextupoles for correcting the machine chromaticity are combined with orbit correction
dipoles. The latter apply a correction to horizontal plane on one beam and a vertical
correction on the other. The equipment code for such a combined corrector will then be
MSCBA (B, C or D). The four letters differentiate the type of combined corrector
depending on the plane of correction and the presence of a skew or a normal sextupole.
The small sextupole correctors in the dipole cold-mass, also called spool pieces or
multipole correctors, are called MCS.

5.1.2.3 NESTED COILS

For magnets assembled using nested coils, the order of the letters identifying each coil
polarity reflects the order with which the coils have been assembled when moving from
the beam outwards.

5.1.3 ASSEMBLIES
Those components of the collider which are made of sub-components originating in
different groups and the assembly of which constitutes a task in itself, are named
assemblies. There are two types of assemblies: the cold mass assemblies and the
cryomagnet assemblies. The former are helium vessels – commonly called cold mass
- containing several magnets, their busbars, etc while the latter are the cold mass
assembled in its cryostat, fully equipped with diodes, super-insulation, vacuum beam
pipes and beam screens ready for installation in the tunnel
The assemblies are denoted with equipment codes starting with the letter L. The second
letter indicates the main component included in the assembly.
e.g. LB will be used for an assembly of a dipole in its cryostat, equipped with diodes,
super-insulation, vacuum beam pipes and beam screens, as it will be installed in the
machine ring. LQ will be used for a short straight section assembly, whose main
element is the lattice quadrupole MQ.

5.2 POSITION

5.2.1 CERN WIDE COORDINATION OF CODING SCHEMES

The coding scheme defined for part identification includes a two-character prefix
defining a CERN machine or installation, e.g. an accelerator, an experiment, a transfer
line [3]. The same scheme is applicable to position coding schemes. It ensures that
codes are unique throughout CERN while providing flexibility in adapting schemes to
machine and installation characteristics.
The machine prefix used for LHC position codes is HC.

5.2.2 DEFINITION OF COLLIDER PARTS

An LHC sector is defined as the part of the machine between two insertion points.
There are four even sectors, labelled S12, S34, S56, S78, and four odd sectors S23,
S45, S67, S81. The naming is always clockwise.
An octant starts from the middle of an arc and ends in the middle of the following arc.
Octants are numbered following the number of the point which they include.
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The arc is the part of the ring occupied by 23 identical FODO cells. A cell is in turn
subdivided into two half-cells each composed of three dipoles and one quadrupole (Q12
to Q34). The half-cells are numbered following the number of the lattice quadrupole
they contain: there are 34 half-cells per half-octant. The dispersion suppressor is
made of four special half-cells with two dipoles and one quadrupole (Q8 to Q11) which
are situated on either side of an arc but do not belong to the arc
An insertion is the part of the ring between two arcs. It consists of one dispersion
suppressor, one long straight section and a second dispersion suppressor. The exact
layout of the long straight section depends on the specific use of the insertion: physics,
injection, beam dumping, beam cleaning. The long straight section always starts and
ends with a matching section.
In addition, the long straight section around the experimental insertions at Points 1, 2,
5 and 8 include the inner triplet (Q1 to Q3) on either side of the interaction points. In
the other long straight sections, Q1 to Q3 are missing and the numbering starts with Q4
so that the mid-arc quadrupole is always numbered 34.
Insertion

Long Straight Section

Mid-Arc Mid-Arc

IPi-1 IPi IPi+1

Arc Arc
Dispersion Suppressors Dispersion Suppressors
Matching Sections Matching Sections
Inner Triplets * Inner Triplets *
Ri-1 Li Ri Li+1
Octanti
Sector(i-1,i) Sector(i,i+1)
* Inner Triplet only present in Towards the centre of LHC
insertions 1,2,5 and 8
Figure 1 : LHC Layout

5.2.3 NAMING OF POSITIONS IN THE COLLIDER TUNNEL

The position of a half-cell along the circumference of the collider is uniquely described
by three parameters:
i the octant number where it belongs (i= 1..8)
L or R whether it is situated in the left or in the right half-octant with
respect to the IP when looking outwards from the centre of the
collider and,
j its sequence number along the line starting from the insertion point
and ending in the mid-arc. For the octants 1, 2, 5 and 8, with
experimental insertions, j=1..34. While for octants 3, 4, 6 and 7,
j=4..34
In the layouts (see Section 6.1) the convention CjLi or CjRi is used to identify the half-
cells.
Every collider component is always situated inside a half-cell. Therefore, the position of
a collider component is first identified by the position of the half-cell. If more than one
element of the same type exists in a given half-cell, a letter is used to discern between
them. The letters are placed before the index j.
Typically the letters A, B and C are used to differentiate the three locations occupied by
the three dipole assemblies of a half-cell in the arc.
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34 C B A 33 C B A 32 C B A ... 12 C B A 11 B A 10 B A 9 B A 8 B A 7 6 5 4 D2 D1 3 2 1 x
34Li 33Li 32Li 12Li 11Li 10Li 9Li 8Li 7Li .. 4Li
DS Li MS Li IT Li IP i

Fig 2 : Numbering of the half-cells left of an experimental insertion

x 1 2 3 D1 D2 4 5 6 7 A B 8 A B 9 A B 10 A B 11 A B C 12 ... A B C 32 A B C 33 A B C 34
7Ri .. 4Ri 8Ri 9Ri 10Ri 11Ri 12Ri 32Ri 33Ri 34Ri

IP i IT Ri MS Ri DS Ri
Fig 3 : Numbering of the half-cells right of an experimental insertion

Q2 is always made of two identical quadrupoles powered in series.

Half cells 34R i and 34L i+1 are special as they share the same lattice quadrupole.

A B C 32 A B C 33 A B C 34 C B A 33 C B A 32 C B A
32Ri 33Ri 34Ri 34L i+1 33L i+1 32L i+1

Mid-arc

Fig 4 : Numbering of the half-cells at mid-arc

5.2.4 NAMING OF POSITIONS IN THE INJECTION LINES

The injection lines also use a FODO structure with a half cell length of 30.3 m. The
installations names are composed of up to five letters given by the device type (e.g.
MBI), and five numbers, where the first identifies the line (i.e. 2 or 8 for TI 2 or TI 8).
The following two digits give the number of the preceding quadrupole or, in case of a
quadrupole, the number of that quadrupole. These numbers run from 01 to 95 for TI 2
and 01 to 81 for TI 8. The last two digits give the number of the slot, counted from the
beginning of the preceding quadrupole, in which the device starts. Slots are 0.5 m long
and counting starts with 01. Quadrupoles themselves carry the slot number 00 except
in case of a quadrupole multiplet where the consecutive quadrupoles of a series carry
slot numbers different from 00 like other devices.
Typically the position of the 65th quadrupole in TI8 is given as 86500, while the position
of the bending magnets is 86506, 86520, 86534 and 86547. The position of the beam
position monitor between the quadrupole and the first dipole is defined as 86504. It
indicates that the equipment is located in the fourth 0.5 m segment after the beginning
of the quadrupole.
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5.2.5 NAMING OF POSITIONS IN THE DUMP LINES

The convention for the location is inspired from the naming convention for the injection
lines described above:
<line><distance from the extracted beam origin in dm>
The <line> parameter is either 62 or 68 and the origin of the extracted beam is
defined at the magnetic centre of the Q5 magnet for each beam. This is a 4 digit
fixed length number.

Figure 5: The origin of extracted B2 in Q5 right of Point 6

Therefore a beam loss monitor situated in TD62 between 435 m and 435.1 m from the
extracted beam origin will be named BLM.624350. The number refers to the position of
the first face the beam sees when entering the equipment concerned. An additional
family field B2 can be added if necessary (BLM.624350.B2).

5.2.6 NAMING OF A LAYOUT COMPONENT

A layout component of the collider is identified as follows:
<machine prefix> • <equipment code> • <position>
Typically, a main quadrupole will be identified by H C • M Q • j L i, if situated in half-cell j
left of insertion point I and by H C • M Q • j R i , if situated in half-cell j right of insertion
point i. The separator •, which is mandatory, allows the identification of the equipment
code and the position.
All the half cells in the left half-octant have their quadrupole to the left of the dipoles
(when looking outwards from the centre of the collider) and all the half cells in the right
half-octant have their quadrupole to the right of the dipoles. Therefore, the three
dipoles of a half-cell in the left half-octant will be identified as H C • M B • C j L i ,
H C • M B • B j L i, H C • M B • A j L i , rotating clockwise. While, the three dipoles of a half-
cell in the right half-octant will be identified as H C • M B • A j R i , H C • M B • B j R i ,
H C • M B • C j R i , rotating clockwise. Figures 2 and 3 above illustrate this convention.
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5.3 FAMILY
When the position along the machine is not sufficient to uniquely identify a component
or when equipment are grouped following a position independent scheme, a further
level of qualification is given using the family field.
< machine prefix> • <equipment code> • <position> • <family>
The separator •, which is mandatory, allows the identification of the equipment code,
the position and the family.
Typical examples are
– the equipment which is installed on one of the beam tubes such as beam position
monitors or,
– equipment performing the same optical function and connected to the same power
converter such as a family of lattice correctors.
– Beam Type and Colour

5.4 BEAM NAME AND COLOUR

Beam 1 and Beam 2 refer to the two LHC beams. Beam 1 circulates clockwise in Ring 1
and Beam 2 circulates counter clockwise in Ring 2. Their relative positions change as
shown in the table below:

Beam 1 Beam 2
Sector 12 External Internal
Sector 23 Internal External
Sector 34 Internal External
Sector 45 Internal External
Sector 56 External Internal
Sector 67 External Internal
Sector 78 External Internal
Sector 81 Internal External
If colours are used to identify equipment acting or installed on a particular beam, blue
should be used for Beam1 and marked B, and red for Beam 2 and marked R.
When equipment (e.g. magnets, vacuum chamber) is acting or installed on both beams
(e.g. recombination/separation vacuum sector) the letter C is used to denote the beam
type. In the experimental areas where both beams traverse the same tube, the letter X
is used.

5.4.1 UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM

Always related to the direction of one of the two beams. If no beam is specified Beam 1
is taken as the default. This implies that stating a position as being ’upstream’ without
indicating any beam is equivalent to stating that the position is to the left.

6. IDENTIFICATION OF DRAWINGS
A general drawing numbering system [5], [6], already in use since 1990, has been
defined for all mechanical and installation engineering drawings. A drawing number,
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which uniquely identifies the drawing, incorporates the machine code and the
equipment code, followed by a sequentially attributed drawing number.

L HCVS SB_ 0 0 1 4
Machine Equipment Code Sequential Number

This label identifies the 14th drawing for the screen part of a dipole beam-screen for
LHC. Because the equipment code VSSB, contained less than five characters, one
underscore was added. The drawing code is therefore the equipment code padded to
five characters with underscores followed by an ordinal number and preceded by the
project name. The number is sequentially attributed as the requests are made to CDD.

6.1 LAYOUTS
Layouts are drawings showing how the collider components are installed in the machine
on its actual site. This either follows the structural properties of the system (e.g.
vacuum, magnet, electrical distribution) which it illustrates (schematic layouts) or, show
the real shape and physical sizes of the equipment belonging to a particular system
(installation or equipment specific layouts).

6.1.1 SCHEMATIC LAYOUTS

The schematic layouts define the positions and the lengths of the elements of the
collider (magnetic or physical). Drawing codes for schematic layouts always start with
LS. The following letter indicates which part of the machine or which system the layout
in question is concerned with. The fourth digit may be a number which indicates the
octant of the machine. In this case, the last digit is either an underscore or a letter.
Examples:
LSAO_ denotes the drawings showing the schematic layout of an odd cell in an
arc.
LSD denotes the drawings showing the DC electrical distribution.

6.1.2 INSTALLATION LAYOUTS

These layouts show the installation of equipment in the actual tunnel shape and are
identified with a drawing code starting with LJ. The third digit gives the LHC octant
number and the fourth indicates which part or system of the machine is concerned.
Examples:
LJ___ denotes the drawings showing the general installation layout in the tunnel,
LJ1UQ denotes the drawings associated to the layout of the cryogenics in the
underground around Point 1.

7. ACCESSING THE EQUIPMENT CODE DATABASE

The equipment code database is accessible via the LHC Project Web Pages in the LHC
Design section under Naming & Conventions.

8. RELATED DOCUMENTATION
[ 1 ] Naming Conventions for the Large Hadron Collider Project, P.Faugeras, P.Lefèvre,
LHC Project Note 92, March 1997.
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[ 2] Building Naming Conventions, LHC-PM-QA-207, October 1999

[ 3 ] CERN Equipment Identification, LHC-PM-QA-208, 100243, version 2.2, August
2004
[ 4 ] LHC Part Identification, LHC-PM-QA-206, September 1999
[ 5 ] Drawing Management and Control, LHC-PM-QA-305, June 1998
[ 6 ] CDD, the CERN Drawing Directory, User Manual, by C. Delamare, I. Fernandez,
F. Jeanin, S. Petit, CERN, EST 98-01 (ISS), 15 May 1996 see also the CDD
information page on WWW at http://wwwlhc01.cern.ch/cdd
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Annex 1 :LIST OF SYSTEMS

Letter System Definition Comments

A Acceleration All RF equipment, incl.

Dampers
B Beam Instrumentation
C Controls, Communications
D DC Electrical Distribution Busbars, quench protection
E Electricity Electrical equipment
F Fluids
G Survey and Geodesy Girders for the SPS
H Mechanics, Supports Including handling
I Injection All transfer lines
J Infrastructure Including in the machine
pits
K Civil Engineering
L Layouts and assemblies Lenses in SPS codes
M Magnetic Elements
N Particle Sources
O Operation
P Personnel safety Including radiation
protection
Q Cryogenic equipment,
cryostats and interconnects
R Power converters (Redresseurs)
S General Safety Supply for SPS
T Targets and Dumps Including collimators
U Ventilation Including. air conditioning
V Vacuum
W NOT USED
X Experimental and test areas
Y Access system
Z Electrostatic systems Separators and septa