[HTML][HTML] Reaching record-low β* at the CERN Large Hadron Collider using a novel scheme of collimator settings and optics

R Bruce, C Bracco, R De Maria, M Giovannozzi… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is built to collide intense proton beams
with an unprecedented energy of 7 TeV. The design stored energy per beam of 362 MJ …

LHC Run 2: Results and challenges

R Bruce, B Salvant, T Pieloni, KSB Li, E Metral, J Jowett… - 2016 - cds.cern.ch
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 …

6L2: Operation, Observations and Physics Aspects

L Mether, D Mirarchi, G Rumolo, G Arduini, A Lechner… - 2019 - cds.cern.ch
Events linked to fast losses in the LHC half-cell 16L2 have plagued a large part of the 2017
run. While a detailed analysis of what happened is treated at the LHC Performance …

JACOW: Electron Cloud Effects in the CERN Accelerators in Run 3

L Mether, E de la Fuente, C Zannini, S Johannesson… - JACoW HB, 2024 - cds.cern.ch
Several of the machines in the CERN accelerator complex, in particular the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) and the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), are prone to the build-up of …

Linearized method for the study of transverse instabilities driven by electron clouds

G Iadarola, L Mether, N Mounet, L Sabato - Physical Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
We present a linearized method to study transverse instabilities due to electron clouds. It is
based on an accurate and compact characterization of the cloud dipolar and quadrupolar …

Non-monotonic dependence of heat loads induced by electron cloud on bunch population at the LHC

G Skripka, G Iadarola, L Mether… - The European Physical …, 2022 - epjplus.epj.org
Electron cloud effects are among the main performance limitations for the operation of the
Large Hadron Collider with 25 ns bunch spacing. Electrons impacting on the beam screens …

Current status of instability threshold measurements in the LHC at 6.5 TeV

L Carver, B Salvant, T Pieloni, J Barranco, T Lefèvre… - 2016 - cds.cern.ch
Throughout 2015, many measurements of the minimum stabilizing octupole current required
to prevent coherent transverse instabilities have been performed. These measurements …

Instabilities and beam induced heating in 2015

LR Carver, G Arduini, T Pieloni, C Tambasco, K Li… - 2016 - cds.cern.ch
Instabilities were observed during operation at injection, flat top and during the betatron
squeeze. This resulted in high chromaticities and octupole currents in all stages of the …

[PDF][PDF] Incoherent electron cloud effects in the Large Hadron Collider

K Paraschou, G Iadarola - Proc. ICFA mini-Workshop on Mitigation of …, 2020 - inspirehep.net
During the operation of the Large Hadron Collider in 2018, the majority of physics data was
collected with a beam energy of 6.5 TeV, a bunch spacing of 25 ns and with V-functions in …

Topical Problems of Beam Dynamics in the NICA Collider

OS Kozlov, SA Kostromin, SA Melnikov… - Physics of Particles and …, 2022 - Springer
The NICA project is under development at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna,
Russia). The accelerator complex is at the stage of step-wise assembly and commissioning …