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Höfle, W.

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MOPLT019 Experience Gained in the SPS for the Future LHC Abort Gap Cleaning 575
 
  • W. Höfle
    CERN, Geneva
 
  Abort gap cleaning using a transverse damper (feedback) has been previously shown in the RHIC accelerator. We report on experimental results in the SPS, where the transverse damper was used to excite transverse oscillations on part of an LHC test beam, and by the induced losses, creating a practically particle free zone. It is proposed to use the same principle for abort gap cleaning in the LHC. For the LHC abort gap cleaning may be required at injection energy, during the ramp and at top energy. It is shown how the transverse excitation can be optimized taking into account the actual bandwidth of the damper systems and the possibility to fully modulate their input signal to match the beam batatron tune distribution. The cleaning efficiency and speed is estimated considering the porcesses involved, the cleaning (with damper) and the filling of the abort gap.  
MOPLT037 Simulation of Transient Beam-feedback Interaction with Application to the Extraction of the CNGS Beam from the SPS 626
 
  • E. Vogel, W. Höfle
    CERN, Geneva
 
  For actual and future high energy proton accelerators, such as the LHC, transverse feedback systems play an essential role in supplying the physics experiments with high intensity beams at low emittances. We developed a simulation model to study the interaction between beam and transverse feedback system in detail, bunch-by-bunch and turn-by-turn, considering the real technical implementation of the latter. A numerical model is used as the nonlinear behavior (saturation) and limited bandwidth of the feedback system, as well as the transient nature at injection and extraction, complicates the analysis. The model is applied to the practical case of the CNGS beam in the SPS accelerator. This beam will be ejected from the SPS in two batches causing residual oscillations by kicker ripples on the second batch. This second batch continues to circulate for some 1000 turns after the first batch has been extracted and oscillations are planned to be damped by the feedback system. It is shown how the model can be extended to the case of transients at injection (LHC), and to include coupled bunch instability effects.