Feasibility of crystal-assisted collimation in the CERN accelerator complex

W Scandale, G Arduini, R Assmann… - … Journal of Modern …, 2022 - World Scientific
Bent silicon crystals mounted on high-accuracy angular actuators were installed in the
CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and extensively tested to assess the feasibility of …

Search for an axion-like particle with forward proton scattering in association with photon pairs at ATLAS

G Aad, B Abbott, K Abeling, NJ Abicht, SH Abidi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract A search for forward proton scattering in association with light-by-light scattering
mediated by an axion-like particle is presented, using the ATLAS Forward Proton …

Observation and measurement of forward proton scattering in association with lepton pairs produced via the photon fusion mechanism at ATLAS

ATLAS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14537, 2020 - arxiv.org
The observation of forward proton scattering in association with lepton pairs ($ e^+ e^-+ p $
or $\mu^+\mu^-+ p $) produced via photon fusion is presented. The scattered proton is …

Transverse beam stability with low-impedance collimators in the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider: Status and challenges

SA Antipov, C Accettura, D Amorim, A Bertarelli… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
The High-Luminosity LHC Project aims to increase the integrated luminosity that will be
collected by the Large Hadron Collider for the needs of the high energy physics frontier by …

Collimation system

S Redaelli, R Bruce, A Lechner… - CERN Yellow Reports …, 2020 - e-publishing.cern.ch
A variety of processes can cause unavoidable beam losses during normal and abnormal
beam operation. Because of the high stored energy of about 700 MJ and the small …

Hollow electron lenses for beam collimation at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC)

S Redaelli, RB Appleby, R Bruce… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrons lenses produce a high-intensity electron beam and have a variety of applications
to circular hadron accelerators. Electron beams of different transverse cross sections and …

Observation and measurement of forward proton scattering in association with lepton pairs produced via the photon fusion mechanism at ATLAS

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The observation of forward proton scattering in association with lepton pairs (e+ e-+ p or μ+
μ-+ p) produced via photon fusion is presented. The scattered proton is detected by the …

Review of LHC RUN 2 machine configurations

R Bruce, D Mirarchi, S Redaelli, N Fuster-Martínez… - 2019 - cds.cern.ch
Abstract During LHC Run 2, the LHC machine configuration evolved significantly. Starting
from a very careful approach in 2015, with the priority on stability and ease of …

Collimation-induced experimental background studies at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

R Bruce, M Huhtinen, A Manousos, F Cerutti… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
The data produced at the particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
contain not only the signals from the collisions, but also a background component from …

Reducing beam-related background on forward physics detectors using crystal collimation at the large hadron collider

D Mirarchi, V Avati, R Bruce, M Butcher, M D'Andrea… - Physical review applied, 2020 - APS
Beam collimation in high-energy colliders is customarily carried out by means of massive
amorphous absorbers surrounding the circulating beam. Several studies were performed in …