Commissioning scenarios and tests for the LHC collimation system

C Bracco - 2009 - cds.cern.ch
The physics reach of the LHC requires unprecedented luminosity and beam intensity in
proton-proton collisions. The maximum intensity in the LHC is directly coupled to the …

The UA9 experimental layout

W Scandale, G Arduini, R Assmann… - Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The UA9 experimental equipment was installed in the CERN-SPS in March'09 with the aim
of investigating crystal assisted collimation in coasting mode. Its basic layout comprises …

A technique to improve crystal channeling efficiency of charged particles

VV Tikhomirov - Journal of Instrumentation, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
It is shown that a narrow plane cut near the crystal surface considerably increases the
probability of capture into the stable channeling motion of positively charged particles …

The radiological situation in the beam-cleaning sections of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

M Brugger - 2003 - cds.cern.ch
This thesis contributes to radiological assessments of the design and operation of the Large
Hadron Collider currently under construction at CERN. In particular, the scope of this thesis …

The miscut angle influence on the future LHC crystal based collimation system

VV Tikhomirov, AI Sytov - Вопросы атомной науки и техники, 2012 - dspace.nbuv.gov.ua
The paper concerns the future LHC crystal based collimation system. The dependence of
collimation efficiency on the muscut angle characterizing nonparallelity of the channeling …

Beam collimation at hadron colliders

NV Mokhov - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Operational and accidental beam losses in hadron colliders can have a serious impact on
machine and detector performance, resulting in effects ranging from minor to catastrophic …

Powering and Machine Protection of the Superconducting LHC Accelerator

M Zerlauth - 2004 - cds.cern.ch
A very large number of magnets, both superconducting and conventional copper conductor
magnets, are installed in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) for the guidance of the two proton …

The technical challenges of the Large Hadron Collider

P Collier - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 27 km circumference hadron collider, built at CERN to
explore the energy frontier of particle physics. Approved in 1994, it was commissioned and …

A Novel Method and Error Analysis for Beam Optics Measurements and Corrections at the Large Hadron Collider

AS Langner - 2017 - cds.cern.ch
Abstract The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently the world's largest particle accelerator
with the highest center of mass energy in particle collision experiments. The control of the …

Challenges of the LHC: the accelerator challenge

L Evans - The European Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields, 2004 - Springer
It is generally considered that the starting point for the LHC was an ECFA meeting in
Lausanne in March 1984 [1], although many of us had begun work on the design of the …