• K. Fuchsberger, S.D. Fartoukh, B. Goddard, O.R. Jones, V. Kain, M. Meddahi, V. Mertens, J. Wenninger
  CERN, Geneva

The 3 km long TI 8 transfer line is used to transfer 450 GeV proton and ion beams from the SPS to LHC collider. As part of a detailed optics investigation program the chromaticity of the transfer line was measured. Kick response data of the transfer line was recorded for various extraction energy offsets in the SPS. The quadrupolar and sextupolar field errors over the whole transfer line dipoles, a systematic error of the main quadrupole strengths and the initial momentum error were estimated by a fit. Using the updated model, the chromaticity of the line was then calculated.

• M. Meddahi, I.V. Agapov, K. Fuchsberger, B. Goddard, W. Herr, V. Kain, V. Mertens, D.P. Missiaen, T. Risselada, J.A. Uythoven, J. Wenninger
  CERN, Geneva
• E. Gianfelice-Wendt
  Fermilab, Batavia

Funding: Work partly supported by Fermilab, operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy

Through May to September 2008, further beam commissioning of the SPS to LHC transfer lines was performed. For the first time, optics and dispersion measurements were also taken in the last part of the lines, and into the LHC. Extensive trajectory and optics studies were conducted, in parallel with hardware checks. In particular dispersion measurements and their comparison with the beam line model were analysed in detail and led to propose the addition of a “dispersion-free” steering algorithm in the existing trajectory correction program.