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| TUPMR007 | Radiative Recombination Detection to Monitor Electron Cooling Conditions During Low Energy RHIC Operations | 1239 |
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Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Providing Au-Au collisions in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at energies equal or lower than 10 GeV/nucleon is of particular interest to study the location of a critical point in the QCD phase diagram. To mitigate luminosity limitations arising from intra-beam scattering at such low energies, an electron cooling system is being developed. To achieve cooling, the relative velocities of the electrons and protons need to be small with maximized transverse overlap. Recombination rates of ions with electrons in the electron cooler can provide signals that can be used to tune the energies and transverse overlap to the required conditions. In this paper we take a close look at various detection methods for recombination processes that may be used to approach cooling. |
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| THPMB041 | Optics-measurement-based BPM Calibration | 3328 |
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| The LHC beta functions (β) can be measured using the phase or the amplitude of betatron oscillations obtained with beam position monitors (BPMs). Using the amplitude information results in a β measurement affected by BPM calibration. This work aims at calibrating BPMs using optics measurements. For this, βs from amplitude and phase and normalized dispersion obtained from many different measurements in 2015 with different optics and corrections are analyzed. Simulations are also performed to support the analyses. | ||
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| THPMB044 | Limitations on Optics Measurements in the LHC | 3339 |
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| In preparation of the optics commissioning at an energy of 6.5 TeV, many improvements have been done to cope with the expected reduced signal to noise ratio due to lowered bunch intensities imposed by machine protection considerations. This included, among others, an increase of the flat top duration of the AC dipole excitations, which allowed to use more turn-by-turn data for the analysis. The longer data acquisition revealed slow drifts of the optics, which limited the increased measurement precision. Furthermore, we will present how orbit drifts influenced dispersion measurements and, as a consequence, posed another limitation for the optics correction. In this paper we will discuss the implications of these observations for the measurement and correction of the optics. | ||
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| THPMR037 | Observations of Resonance Driving Terms in the LHC during Runs I and II | 3468 |
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| Future operations of the LHC will require a good understanding of the nonlinear beam dynamics. In 2012, turn-by-turn measurements of large diagonal betatron excitations in LHC Beam 2 were taken at injection energy. Spectral analysis of these measurements shows an anomalous octupolar spectral line at frequency -Qx-2Qy in the horizontal motion. The presence of this spectral line, as well as other lines, was confirmed by measurements taken for LHC Beam 1 and Beam 2 during the commissioning in 2015. We take a close look at the various spectral lines appearing in the LHC transverse motion in order to improve the LHC nonlinear model. | ||
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| THPMR038 | Non-Linear Errors in the Experimental Insertions of the LHC | 3472 |
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| Correction of nonlinear magnetic errors in low-β insertions can be of critical significance for the operation of a collider. This is expected to be of particular relevance to LHC Run II and the HL-LHC upgrade, as well as to future colliders such as the FCC. Current correction strategies for these accelerators have assumed it will be possible to calculate optimized local corrections through the insertions using a magnetic model of the errors. To test this assumption the nonlinear errors in the LHC experimental insertions have been examined via feed-down and amplitude detuning. It will be shown that while in some cases the magnetic measurements provide a sufficient description of the errors, in others large discrepancies exist which will require beam-based correction techniques. | ||
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| THPMR039 | Commissioning of Non-linear Optics in the LHC at Injection Energy | 3476 |
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| Commissioning of the nonlinear optics at injection in the LHC was carried out for the first time in 2015 via beam-based methods. Building upon studies performed during Run I, corrections to the nonlinear chromaticity and detuning with amplitude were obtained. These corrections were observed to reduce beam-loss during measurement of linear optics. | ||
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| THPMR040 | Local Optics Corrections in the HL-LHC IR | 3480 |
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| For the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC optics correction in the interaction regions is expected to be challenged by the very low β* and the sizable expected quadrupolar errors in the triplet. This paper addresses the performance and limitations of the segment-by-segment technique to correct quadrupolar and skew quadrupolar errors in the HL-LHC IR via computer simulations. Required improvements to this technique and possible combinations with other correction approaches are also presented including experimental tests in the current LHC IR. | ||
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