Author: Lindstrom, B.    [Lindström, B.]
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TUC4C2 Mitigating Collimation Impedance and Improving Halo Cleaning with New Optics and Settings Strategy of the HL-LHC Betatron Collimation System 183
 
  • B. Lindström, R. Bruce, X. Buffat, R. De Maria, L. Giacomel, P.D. Hermes, D. Mirarchi, N. Mounet, T.H.B. Persson, S. Redaelli, R. Tomás García, F.F. Van der Veken, A. Wegscheider
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the HL-LHC project
With High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) beam intensities, there are concerns that the beam losses in the dispersion suppressors around the betatron cleaning insertion might exceed the quench limits. Furthermore, to maximize the beam lifetime it is important to reduce the impedance as much as possible. The collimators constitute one of the main sources of impedance in HL-LHC, given the need to operate with small collimator gaps. To improve this, a new optics was developed which increases the beta function in the collimation area, as well as the single pass dispersion from the primary collimators to the downstream shower absorbers. Other possible improvements from orbit bumps, to further enhance the locally generated dispersion, and from asymmetric collimator settings were also studied. The new solutions were partially tested with 6.8 TeV beams at the LHC in a dedicated machine experiment in 2022. In this paper, the new performance is reviewed and prospects for future operational deployment are discussed.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-TUC4C2  
About • Received ※ 01 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 October 2023 — Issued ※ 28 October 2023
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WEC3C3 Simulations and Measurements of Betatron and Off-momentum Cleaning Performance in the Energy Ramp at the LHC 279
 
  • N. Triantafyllou, R. Bruce, M. D’Andrea, K.A. Dewhurst, B. Lindström, D. Mirarchi, S. Redaelli, F.F. Van der Veken
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is equipped with a multistage collimation system that protects the machine against unavoidable beam losses at large betatron and energy offsets at all stages of operation. Dedicated validations and an understanding in simulations of the collimation performance are crucial for the energy ramp from 450 GeV to 6.8 TeV because complex changes of optics and orbit take place in this phase. Indeed, the betatron functions are reduced in all experiments for an efficient setup of the collisions at top energy. In this paper, simulations of the betatron and off-momentum cleaning during the energy ramp are presented. A particular focus is given to the off-momentum losses at the start of the ramp. The simulation results are benchmarked against experimental data, demonstrating the accuracy of the newly developed tools used for the simulations.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-WEC3C3  
About • Received ※ 29 September 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 10 October 2023 — Issued ※ 19 October 2023
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THA1C1 High Intensity Beam Dynamics Challenges for HL-LHC 344
 
  • N. Mounet, H. Bartosik, P. Baudrenghien, R. Bruce, X. Buffat, R. Calaga, R. De Maria, C.N. Droin, L. Giacomel, M. Giovannozzi, G. Iadarola, S. Kostoglou, B. Lindström, L. Mether, E. Métral, Y. Papaphilippou, K. Paraschou, S. Redaelli, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, G. Sterbini, R. Tomás García
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  The High Luminosity (HL-LHC) project aims to increase the integrated luminosity of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by an order of magnitude compared to its initial design. This requires a large increase in bunch intensity and beam brightness compared to the first LHC runs, and hence poses serious collective-effects challenges, related in particular to electron cloud, instabilities from beam-coupling impedance, and beam-beam effects. Here we present the associated constraints and the proposed mitigation measures to achieve the baseline performance of the upgraded LHC machine. We also discuss the interplay of these mitigation measures with other aspects of the accelerator, such as the physical and dynamic aperture, machine protection, magnet imperfections, optics, and the collimation system.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THA1C1  
About • Received ※ 01 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 12 October 2023 — Issued ※ 15 October 2023
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THBP13 Recent Developments with the New Tools for Collimation Simulations in Xsuite 474
 
  • F.F. Van der Veken, A. Abramov, G. Broggi, F. Cerutti, M. D’Andrea, D. Demetriadou, L.S. Esposito, G. Hugo, G. Iadarola, B. Lindström, S. Redaelli, V. Rodin, N. Triantafyllou
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  Simulations of single-particle tracking involving collimation systems need dedicated tools to perform the different tasks needed. These include the accurate description of particle-matter interactions when a tracked particle impacts a collimator jaw; a detailed aperture model to identify the longitudinal location of losses; and others. One such tool is the K2 code in SixTrack, which describes the scattering of high-energy protons in matter. This code has recently been ported into the Xsuite tracking code that is being developed at CERN. Another approach is to couple the tracking with existing tools, such as FLUKA or Geant4, that offer better descriptions of particle-matter interactions and can treat lepton and ion beams. This includes the generation of secondary particles and fragmentation when tracking ions. In addition to the development of coupling with Geant4, the SixTrack-FLUKA coupling has recently been translated and integrated into the Xsuite environment as well. In this paper, we present the ongoing development of these tools. A thorough testing of the new implementation was performed, using as case studies various collimation layout configurations for the LHC Run 3.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THBP13  
About • Received ※ 29 September 2023 — Revised ※ 06 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 23 October 2023
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THBP49 Collimation of 400 MJ Beams at the LHC: The First Step Towards the HL-LHC Era 603
 
  • S. Redaelli, A. Abramov, D.B. Baillard, R. Bruce, R. Cai, F. Carra, M. D’Andrea, M. Di Castro, L. Giacomel, P.D. Hermes, B. Lindström, D. Mirarchi, N. Mounet, F.-X. Nuiry, A. Perillo Marcone, F.F. Van der Veken
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • R. Cai
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • A. Vella
    University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
 
  Funding: Work supported by the HL-LHC project.
An important upgrade programme is planned for the collimation system of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in order to meet the challenges of the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project. A first stage of the HL-LHC upgrade was already deployed during the last LHC Long Shutdown, offering important improvements of the collimation cleaning, a significant reduction of the impedance contribution and better cleaning of collisional debris, in particular for ion-ion collisions. This upgrade provides a critical opportunity to explore the LHC intensity limits during the LHC Run 3 and can provide crucial feedback to refine upgrade plans and operational scenarios in the HL-LHC era. This paper describes the performance of the upgraded LHC collimation system that has already enabled stored-beam energies larger than 400 MJ at the unprecedented beam energy of 6.8 TeV, and reviews further upgrade plans envisaged to reach 700 MJ beams at the HL-LHC.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THBP49  
About • Received ※ 03 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 09 October 2023 — Issued ※ 10 October 2023
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