TUAM8X —  Parallel Session   (05-Jul-16   12:15—12:40)
Chair: W. Fischer, BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
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TUAM8X01
 Beam-Beam Effects in the Large Hadron Collider  
 
  • T. Pieloni, X. Buffat, C. Tambasco
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • D. Banfi, J. Barranco, C. Tambasco
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • M.P. Crouch
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  
  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating at an energy of 6.5 TeV and in 25 ns bunch spacing very close to the design values. For the 2015 physics RUN beam-beam effects have been kept weak in order to gain experience with other effects (i.e. impedance, e-cloud). The 2016 physics run will perform at stronger long-range effects. Several experiments devoted to highlight the beam-beam limits have been carried out during the year in order to define possible future scenarios with the aim to maximize the integrated luminosity. In this paper the beam-beam effects observed during physics fills and devoted experiments will be presented with considerations on the possible limitations for future operation of the LHC and extrapolations to HL-LHC.  
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