• R. Calaga, R. De Maria
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• R.W. Assmann, J. Barranco, F. Caspers, E. Ciapala, T.P.R. Linnecar, E. Métral, Y. Sun, R. Tomás, J. Tuckmantel, Th. Weiler, F. Zimmermann
  CERN, Geneva
• G. Burt
  Lancaster University, Lancaster
• Y. Funakoshi, A. Morita, Y. Morita, K. Nakanishi, Y. Ohnishi
  KEK, Ibaraki
• Z. Li, A. Seryi, L. Xiao
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• P.A. McIntosh
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• J. Qiang
  LBNL, Berkeley, California
• N. Solyak, V.P. Yakovlev
  Fermilab, Batavia

Funding: This work was partially performed under the auspices of the US DOE and the European Community-Research Infrastructure, FP6 programme (CARE, contract number RII3-CT-2003-506395)}

The LHC crab cavity program is advancing rapidly towards a first prototype which is anticipated to be tested during the early stages of the LHC phase I upgrade and commissioning. Some aspects related to crab optics, collimation, aperture constraints, impedances, noise effects, beam transparency and machine protection critical for a safe and robust operation of LHC beams with crab cavities are addressed here.

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