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| MOPGW069 | Recent Beam Performance Achievements with the Pb-Ion Beam in the SPS for LHC Physics Runs | 250 |
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| In the SPS, which is the last accelerator in the LHC ion injector chain, multiple injections of the Pb-ion beam have to be accumulated. On this injection plateau the beam suffers from considerable degradation such as emittance growth and losses. This paper summarises the achievements on improving the beam parameters and maximising the performance of the Pb-ion beam for the LHC physics run in 2018. The results are discussed in view of the target beam parameters of the LHC injectors upgrade project, which is being deployed during the presently ongoing long shutdown. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPGW069 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 12 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 17 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| MOPGW091 | Capture and Flat-Bottom Losses in the CERN SPS | 327 |
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| Particle losses on the flat bottom of the SPS, the last accelerator in the injector chain of the LHC at CERN, are a strong limitation for reaching the high intensities required by the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC. Two contributions to these losses are investigated in this paper. The first losses occur during the PS-to-SPS bunch-to-bucket transfer, since the bunch rotation in the PS creates halo particles and the bunch does not completely fit into the SPS RF-bucket. The effect of longitudinal shaving in the PS on the beam transmission was recently tested. At high intensities, further capture losses are caused by beam loading in the traveling wave RF system of the SPS, which is partially compensated by the LLRF system, in particular by one-turn delay feedback. While the feedforward system reduces the capture losses, it also increases the losses along the flat bottom due to the RF noise. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPGW091 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 09 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 19 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| MOPGW094 | First Machine Developments Result with HL-LHC Crab Cavities in the SPS | 338 |
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| Crab cavities are a critical component within the High Luminosity upgrade project for the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). It is foreseen to use crab cavities in order to compensate the geometric luminosity reduction factor (reduction of the luminous region at the Interaction Point [IP]) due to the beam crossing angle (required for minimizing the impact of the long range beam-beam effects on the single particle beam dynamics) and increase the number of collisions per bunch crossing. In 2018 the first beam tests of crab cavities with protons were performed in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. Two vertical superconducting cavities of the Double Quarter Wave (DQW) type were fabricated and installed in the SPS to verify some key components of the cavity design and operation. This paper will present some of the first results relating to the proton beam dynamics in the presence of crab cavities. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPGW094 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 25 April 2019 paper accepted ※ 20 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| MOPMP031 | Operation and Performance of the Cern Large Hadron Collider During Proton Run 2 | 504 |
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| Run 2 of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was successfully completed on 10th December 2018, achieving largely all goals set in terms of luminosity production. Following the first two-year long shutdown and the re-commissioning in 2015 at 6.5 TeV, the beam performance was increased to reach a peak luminosity of more than twice the design value and a colliding beam time ratio of 50%. This was accomplished thanks to the increased beam brightness from the injector chain, the high machine availability and the performance enhancements made in the LHC for which some methods and tools, foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) were tested and deployed operationally. This contribution provides an overview of the operational aspects, main limitations and achievements for the proton Run 2. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPMP031 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 13 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 17 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| MOPMP036 | Machine Protection Experience from Beam Tests with Crab Cavity Prototypes in the CERN SPS | 520 |
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Funding: Work supported by the High Luminosity LHC project. Crab cavities (CCs) constitute a key component of the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project. In case of a failure, they can induce significant transverse beam offsets within tens of microseconds, necessitating a fast removal of the circulating beam to avoid damage to accelerator components due to losses from the displaced beam halo. In preparation for the final design to be employed in the LHC, a series of tests were conducted on prototype crab cavities installed in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. This paper summarizes the machine protection requirements and observations during the first tests of crab cavities with proton beams in the SPS. In addition, the machine protection implications for future SPS tests and for the use of such equipment in the HL-LHC are discussed. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPMP036 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 01 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 18 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| MOPRB055 | First Partially Stripped Ions in the LHC (208Pb81+) | 689 |
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| The Gamma Factory initiative proposes to use partially stripped ion (PSI) beams as drivers of a new type of high intensity photon source. As part of the ongoing Physics Beyond Collider studies, initial beam tests with PSI beams have been executed at CERN. On 25 July 2018 lead ions with one remaining electron (208Pb81+) were injected and accelerated in the LHC for the first time. After establishing the injection and circulation of a few 208Pb81+ bunches, beam lifetimes of about 50 hours could be established at 6.5 TeV proton equivalent energy. This paper describes the setup of the beam tests and observations made. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-MOPRB055 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 29 April 2019 paper accepted ※ 20 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| WEPTS039 | Momentum Slip-Stacking in CERN SPS for the Ion Beams | 3184 |
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| The LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project at CERN aims at doubling the total intensity of the lead ion beam for the High-Luminosity (HL) LHC. Achieving this goal requires using momentum slip-stacking in the SPS, the LHC injector. Slip-stacking will be applied on an intermediate energy plateau to interleave two batches, reducing the bunch spacing from 100 ns to 50 ns and thus increasing the total number of bunches injected into the LHC. Realistic macro-particle simulations, with the present SPS impedance model are used to study and design this complicated beam manipulation. Slip-stacking can be tested experimentally only after the upgrade of the SPS 200 MHz RF system, in 2021. Preliminary, slip-stacking related beam measurements were performed at the end of 2018. In this paper both macro-particle simulations and beam measurements are reported with emphasis given on optimisation of the process, crucial to achieve the required HL-LHC parameters (bunch lengths, beam losses). | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPTS039 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 15 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 23 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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| WEPTS049 | Flat-Bottom Instabilities in the CERN SPS | 3224 |
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| At beam intensities of 2.6·1011 protons per bunch, required at SPS injection for the High Luminosity LHC beam, longitudinal instabilities can degrade the beam quality delivered by the SPS, the LHC injector at CERN. In this paper, we concentrate on beam instability at flat bottom. The dependence of the instability threshold on longitudinal emittance and LLRF system settings was measured, to help identify the impedance driving this instability. While reducing the longitudinal emittance reduces the losses at injection, it can drive the beam unstable. The LLRF system of the SPS (partially) compensates beam loading, but also affects the instability. The effect of the different LLRF systems (feedback, feedforward, phase loop and longitudinal damper) and fourth harmonic RF system on the instability was investigated. The measurements are compared with simulations performed with the longitudinal tracking code BLonD. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPTS049 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 10 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 19 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019 | |
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