• D. Wollmann, O. Aberle, G. Arnau-Izquierdo, R.W. Assmann, J.-P. Bacher, V. Baglin, G. Bellodi, A. Bertarelli, A.P. Bouzoud, C. Bracco, R. Bruce, M. Brugger, S. Calatroni, F. Caspers, F. Cerutti, R. Chamizo, A. Cherif, E. Chiaveri, P. Chiggiato, A. Dallocchio, R. De Morais Amaral, B. Dehning, M. Donze, A. Ferrari, R. Folch, P. Francon, P. Gander, J.-M. Geisser, A. Grudiev, E.B. Holzer, D. Jacquet, J.B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, M. Jonker, J.M. Jowett, Y. Kadi, K. Kershaw, L. Lari, J. Lendaro, F. Loprete, R. Losito, M. Magistris, M. Malabaila, A. Marsili, A. Masi, S.J. Mathot, M. Mayer, C.C. Mitifiot, N. Mounet, E. Métral, A. Nordt, R. Perret, S. Perrollaz, C. Rathjen, S. Redaelli, G. Robert-Demolaize, S. Roesler, A. Rossi, B. Salvant, M. Santana-Leitner, I. Sexton, P. Sievers, T. Tardy, M.A. Timmins, E. Tsoulou, E. Veyrunes, H. Vincke, V. Vlachoudis, V. Vuillemin, Th. Weiler, F. Zimmermann
  CERN, Geneva
• I. Baishev, I.A. Kurochkin
  IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
• D. Kaltchev
  TRIUMF, Vancouver

The LHC has two dedicated cleaning insertions: IR3 for momentum cleaning and IR7 for betatron cleaning. The collimation system has been specified and built with tight mechanical tolerances (e.g. jaw flatness ~ 40 μm) and is designed to achieve a high accuracy and reproducibility of the jaw positions. The practically achievable cleaning efficiency of the present Phase-I system depends on the precision of the jaw centering around the beam, the accuracy of the gap size and the jaw parallelism against the beam. The reproducibility and stability of the system is important to avoid the frequent repetition of beam based alignment which is currently a lengthy procedure. Within this paper we describe the method used for the beam based alignment of the LHC collimation system, its achieved accuracy and stability and its performance at 450GeV.

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• R. Chamizo, J. Borburgh, B. Goddard, A. Mereghetti, R. Versaci, W.J.M. Weterings
  CERN, Geneva

Linac4 is the new H^- linear accelerator under construction at CERN aiming to double the brightness of the beam injected to the CERN PS Booster (PSB) for delivering proton beams to experiments or further CERN accelerators, down to the LHC. The injection system in the PSB is based on the H^- charge exchange where the 160 MeV H^- beam is converted into an H⁺ beam by stripping the electrons with a carbon foil. A beam dump located inside a pulsed magnet for the injection bump will intercept the unstripped ions (H0 and H-) and measure the collected charge to detect the relative efficiency and degradation of the stripping foil. The challenge of the dump design is to meet the requirements of a beam dump providing a current measurement and at the same time minimizing the perturbation of the magnetic field of the surrounding pulsed magnet. This paper describes all phases of the dump design and the main issues related to its integration in the line.