BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
Lancaster University, Lancaster
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
LBNL, Berkeley, California
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.
CERN, Geneva
The start-up of the LHC has provided the first field test for the concept, functionality and accuracy of FiDeL, the Field Description for the LHC. FiDeL is primarily a parametric model of the transfer function of the main field integrals generated by the series of magnets in the LHC powering circuits, from main optical elements to high-order harmonic correctors, both superconducting and normal-conducting magnets. In addition, the same framework is used to predict harmonic errors of both static and dynamic nature, and forecast appropriate corrections. In this paper we give a description of the level of detail achieved in the model and the rationale adopted for the LHC start-up. Beam-based measurements have been used for an assessment of the first-shot accuracy in the prediction of the current setting for the main arc magnets*.
*The work reported has been performed by the authors and the FiDeL Team
CERN, Geneva
The CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) has been running for more than 30 years. Originally designed to accelerate particles from 50 to 800 MeV, later upgraded to an energy of 1 GeV and finally 1.4 GeV, it is steadily being pushed to its operational limits. One challenge is the permanent demand for intensity increase, in particular for CNGS and ISOLDE, but also in view of LINAC4. As it is an accelerator working with very high space charge during the low energy part of its cycle, its operational conditions have to be precisely tuned. Amongst other things resonances must be avoided, stop band crossings optimized and the machine impedance minimized. Recently, an operational intensity record was achieved with >4.25·1013 protons accelerated. An orbit correction campaign performed during the 2007/2008 shutdown was a major contributing factor to achieving this intensity. As the PSB presently has very few orbit correctors available, the orbit correction has to be achieved by displacing and/or tilting some of the defocusing quadrupoles common to all 4 PSB rings. The contributing factors used to optimize performance will be reviewed.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Various LHC injection tests were performed in August and early September 2008 in preparation for the circulating beam operation. These tests provided the first opportunity to measure with beam the available mechanical aperture in two LHC sectors (2-3 and 7-8). The aperture was probed by exciting free oscillations and local orbit bumps of the injected beam trajectories. Intensities of a few 109 protons were used to remain safely below the quench limit of superconducting magnets in case of beam losses. In this paper the methods used to measure the mechanical aperture, the available on-line tools, and beam measurements for both sectors are presented. Detailed comparisons with the expected results from the as-built aperture models are also presented. It is shown that the measurements results are in good agreement with the LHC design aperture.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
KEK, Ibaraki
Funding: This work was supported by the European Community-Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area" programme (CARE, contract number RII3-CT-2003-506395).
Modern colliders bring into collision a large number of bunches per pulse or per turn to achieve a high luminosity. The long-range beam-beam effects arising from parasitic encounters at such colliders are mitigated by introducing a crossing angle. Under these conditions, crab cavities (CC) can be used to restore effective head-on collisions and thereby to increase the geometric luminosity. In this paper, we discuss the beam dynamics issues of a single global crab cavity (GCC) for both nominal LHC optics and one upgrade LHC optics.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
KEK, Ibaraki
In 2008 beam successfully circulated in the LHC. Thanks to an excellent functioning of the BPM system and the related software, injection oscillations were recorded for the first 90 turns at all BPMs. The analysis of these data gives the unique opportunity of evaluating the periodic optics and inferring possible error sources.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
KEK, Ibaraki
For several years optics measurement and correction algorithms have been developed for the LHC. During 2008 these algorithms have been directly tested in the SPS and RHIC. The experimental results proving the readiness of the applications are presented.
CERN, Geneva
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
DESY, Hamburg
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The CLIC BDS is experiencing the careful revision from a large number of world wide experts. This was particularly enhanced by the successful CLIC'08 workshop held at CERN. Numerous new ideas, improvements and critical points are arising, establishing the path towards the Conceptual Design Report by 2010.
CERN, Geneva
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
LAL, Orsay
KEK, Ibaraki
UMAN, Manchester
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The CLIC Final Focus System has considerably larger chromaticity than those of ILC and its scaled test machine ATF2. We propose to reduce the IP betas of ATF2 to reach a CLIC-like chromaticity. This would also allow to study the FFS tuning difficulty as function of the IP beam spot size. Both the ILC and CLIC projects will largely benefit from the ATF2 experience at these ultra-low IP betas.
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
In early LHC commissioning, linear and "higher-order" polarity checks were performed for one octant per beam, by launching suitable free betatron oscillations and then inverting a magnet-circuit polarity or strength. Circuits tested included trim quadrupoles, skew quadrupoles, lattice sextupoles, sextupole spool-pieces, Landau octupoles, and skew sextupoles. A nonzero momentum offset was introduced to enhance the measurement quality. The low-intensity single-pass measurements proved sufficiently sensitive to verify the polarity and the amplitude of (almost) all circuits under investigation, as well as the alignment of individual trim quadrupoles. A systematic polarity inversion detected by this measurement helped to pin down the origin of observed dispersion errors. Later, the periodic "ring dispersion" was reconstructed from the full first-turn trajectory of an injected off-momentum beam, by removing, at each location, the large incoming dispersion mismatch, forward-propagated via the optics model. Various combinations of inverted trim quadrupoles were considered in this model until reaching a good agreement of reconstructed dispersion and prediction.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
In the article we review the nonlinear beam dynamics from nonlinear magnetic fields in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The nonlinear magnetic fields include the magnetic field errors in the interaction regions, chromatic sextupoles, and sextupole component from arc dipoles. Their effects on the beam dynamics and long-term dynamic apertures are evaluated. The online measurement and correction methods for the IR nonlinear errors, nonlinear chromaticity, and horizontal third order resonance are reviewed. The overall strategy for the nonlinear effect correction in the RHIC is discussed.
CERN, Geneva
Funding: This work was supported by the European Community-Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area" programme (CARE, contract number RII3-CT-2003-506395).
The use of crab cavities in the LHC may not only raise the luminosity, but it could also complicate the beam dynamics, e.g. crab cavities might not only cancel synchro-betatron resonances excited by the crossing angle but they could also excite new ones. In this paper, we use weak-strong beam-beam model to study the incoherent linear tune shift of the weak beam, for the crossing collision case and crab collision case with a finite crossing angle. The tune shift is also compared among the head-on collision, crossing collision and crab collision cases, both analytically and numerically.
CERN, Geneva
In the compact linear collider (CLIC) the tolerances on dynamic imperfections are tight in the main linac. In particular the limited beam delivery system bandwidth requires very good RF phase and amplitude stability. Transverse motion of the beam line components is also of concern. The resulting tolerances are detailed in the paper.
CERN, Geneva
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The emission of Synchrotron Radiation in the CLIC BDS is one of the major limitations of the machine performance. An extensive revision of this phenomenon is presented with special emphasis on the IP solenoid.
CERN, Geneva
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
The successful correction of non-linear resonances in DIAMOND using the BPM turn-by-turn data has motivated testing this approach in SOLEIL in collaboration with CERN. We report on the first experiences towards the correction of non-linear resonances in SOLEIL.
CERN, Geneva
The CLIC study is exploring the scheme for an electron-positron collider with a centre-of-mass energy of 3 TeV in order to make the multi-TeV range accessible for physics. The current goal of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology by the year 2010. Recently, important progress has has been made concerning the high-gradient accelerating structure tests and the experiments with beam in the CLIC test facility, CTF3. On the organizational side, the CLIC international collaborations have significantly gained momentum considerably boosting the CLIC study.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
KEK, Ibaraki
LAL, Orsay
UMAN, Manchester
CERN, Geneva
Funding: Work supported in part by Department of Energy Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
Using a new extraction line currently being commissioned, the ATF2 experiment plans to test a novel compact final focus optics design using a local chromaticity correction scheme, such as could be used in future linear colliders*. Using a 1.3 GeV beam of ~30nm normalised vertical emittance extracted from the ATF damping ring, the primary goal is to achieve a vertical IP waist of 35nm. We discuss our planned strategy, implementation details and early experimental results for tuning the ATF2 beam to meet the primary goal. These optics require uniquely tight tolerances on some magnet strengths and positions, we discuss efforts to re-match the optics to meet these requirements using high-precision measurements of key magnet elements. We simulated in detail the tuning procedure using several algorithms and different code implementations for comparison from initial orbit establishment to final IP spot-size tuning. Through a Monte Carlo study of 100's of simulation seeds we find we can achieve a spot-size within 10% of the design optics value in at least 90% of cases. We also ran a simulation to study the long-term performance with the use of beam-based feedbacks.
*"ATF2 Proposal", ATF2 Collaboration (Boris Ivanovich Grishanov et al.)., KEK-REPORT-2005-2, Aug 23, 2005.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
Funding: This work has been partially performed under the auspices of US department of energy
Measurements of transverse impedance in the SPS to track the evolution over the last few years show discrepancies compared to the analytical estimates of the major contributors. Recent measurements to localize the major sources of the transverse impedance using intensity dependent optics are presented. Some simulations using HEADTAIL to understand the limitations of the reconstruction and related numerical aspects are also discussed.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
JAI, Oxford
KEK, Ibaraki
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
LAL, Orsay
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
ATOMKI, Debrecen
CERN, Geneva
DESY, Hamburg
Fermilab, Batavia
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
ICEPP, Tokyo
University of Tokyo, Tokyo
UCL, London
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai
UMAN, Manchester
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
ATF2 is a final-focus test beam line that attempts to focus the low-emittance beam from the ATF damping ring to a beam size of about 37 nm, and at the same time to demonstrate nm beam stability, using numerous advanced beam diagnostics and feedback tools. The construction is well advanced and beam commissioning of ATF2 has started in the second half of 2008. ATF2 is constructed and commissioned by ATF international collaborations with strong US, Asian and European participation.
CERN, Geneva
N.U, Nigde
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Tandogan/Ankara
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
KEK, Ibaraki
TOBB ETU, Ankara
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Sub-atomic physics at the energy frontier probes the structure of the fundamental quanta of the Universe. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN opens for the first time the “terascale” (TeV energy scale) to experimental scrutiny, exposing the physics of the Universe at the sub-attometric (~10-19 m, 10-10 as) scale. The LHC will also take the science of nuclear matter to hitherto unparalleled energy densities (low-x physics). The hadron beams, protons or ions, in the LHC underpin this horizon, and also offer new experimental possibilities at this energy scale. A Large Hadron electron Collider, LHeC, in which an electron (positron) beam of energy (70 to 140 GeV) is in collision with one of the LHC hadron beams, makes possible terascale lepton-hadron physics. The LHeC is presently being evaluated in the form of two options, “ring-ring” and “linac-ring”, either of which operate simultaneously with pp or ion-ion collisions in other LHC interaction regions. Each option takes advantage of recent advances in radio-frequency, in linear acceleration, and in other associated technologies, to achieve ep luminosity as large as 1033 cm-2s-1.
EPFL, Lausanne
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The upgrade of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would require a four- to fivefold increase of the single bunch intensity presently obtained in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Operating at such high single bunch intensities requires a detailed knowledge of the sources of SPS beam coupling impedance, so that longitudinal and transverse impedance reduction campaigns can be planned and performed effectively if needed. In this paper, the transverse impedance of the SPS is studied by injecting a single long bunch into the SPS, and observing its decay without RF. This particular setup enhances the resolution of the frequency analysis of the longitudinal and transverse bunch signals acquired with strip line couplers connected to a fast data acquisition. It also gives access to the frequency content of the transverse impedance. Results from measurements with short and long bunches in the SPS performed in 2008 are compared with simulations and theoretical predictions.