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| MOAM5P50 | LHC Run 2: Results and Challenges | 1 |
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| The first proton run of the LHC was very successful and resulted in important physics discoveries. It was followed by a two-year shutdown where a large number of improvements were carried out. In 2015, the LHC was restarted and this second run aims at further exploring the physics of the standard model and beyond at an increased beam energy. This article gives a review of the performance achieved so far and the limitations encountered, as well as the future challenges for the CERN accelerators to maximize the data delivered to the LHC experiments in Run 2. Furthermore, the status of the 2016 LHC run and commissioning is discussed. | ||
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Results From First Crystal Collimation Tests at the Large Hadron Collider | |
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| Crystal collimation is a technique that relies on highly pure bent crystals to coherently deflect beam halo particles - through the channeling mechanisms - onto dedicated absorbers. Standard multi-stage collimation systems for hadron beams use amorphous materials as primary collimators and might be limited by nuclear interactions and ion fragmentation that are strongly suppressed in crystals. A crystal collimation setup was installed in the betatron cleaning insertion of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to demonstrate with LHC beams the feasibility of this concept and to compare its performance with that of the present system. The channeling was observed for the first time and the halo cleaning efficiency could be measured. Results of these first beam tests are presented. | ||
| WEAM5X01 | Beam-dynamics Issues in the FCC | 1 |
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Funding: European Commission under the Capacities 7th Framework Programme project EuCARD-2, grant agreement 312453, and the HORIZON 2020 project EuroCirCol, grant agreement 654305. Also by the German BMBF. The international Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is designing hadron, lepton and lepton-hadron colliders based on a new 100 km tunnel in the Geneva region. The main focus and ultimate goal of the study are high-luminosity proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 100 TeV, using 16 T Nb3Sn dipole magnets. Specific FCC beam dynamics issues are related to the large circumference, the high brightness - made available by radiation damping -, the small geometric emittance, unprecedented collision energy and luminosity, the huge amount of energy stored in the beam, large synchrotron radiation power, plus the injection scenarios. In addition to the FCC-hh proper, also a High-Energy LHC (HE-LHC) is being explored, using the FCC-hh magnet technology in the existing LHC tunnel, which can yield a centre-of-mass energy around 25 TeV. |
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LHC Collimation for the Run Ii and Beyond | |
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| The LHC achieved in 2015 record stored beam energies of about 280MJ with 6.5TeV proton beams, surpassing by about 2 orders of magnitudes achieved in previous superconducting colliders. The LHC collimation system played a key role in this achievement, ensuring a safe operation well below quench limits of superconducting magnets. In this paper, the collimation system for the LHC Run II is presented. Accelerator physics and operational challenges for controlling LHC beam losses are discussed and the collimation performance is reviewed. Limitations of the system and requirements for operating the LHC beyond Run II are also reviewed. | ||
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Slides WEPM5X01 [5.670 MB] | |