Validation of energy deposition simulations for proton and heavy ion losses in the CERN Large Hadron Collider

A Lechner, B Auchmann, T Baer… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
Monte Carlo shower simulations are essential for understanding and predicting the
consequences of beam losses in high-energy proton and ion colliders. Shower simulations …

Simulations of heavy-ion halo collimation at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Benchmark with measurements and cleaning performance evaluation

N Fuster-Martínez, R Bruce, F Cerutti, R De Maria… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
Protons and heavy-ion beams at unprecedented energies are brought into collisions in the
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for high-energy experiments. The LHC multistage …

Power deposition studies for standard and crystal-assisted heavy ion collimation in the CERN Large Hadron Collider

JB Potoine, R Bruce, R Cai, F Cerutti, M D'andrea… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
The LHC heavy-ion program with Pb 208 82+ beams will benefit from a significant increase
of the beam intensity when entering its high-luminosity era in Run 3 (2023). The stored …

[PDF][PDF] SixTrack for cleaning studies: 2017 updates

A Mereghetti, R Bruce, F Cerutti, R De Maria… - … Conference (14-19 …, 2017 - s3.cern.ch
SixTrack is a single particle tracking code for simulating beam dynamics in ultra-relativistic
accelerators. It is widely used at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) …

Impact of betatron collimation losses in the High-Energy Large Hadron Collider

M Varasteh, R Bruce, F Cerutti, M Crouch… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2021 - APS
In response to recommendations in the 2013 update of the European Strategy for Particle
Physics, a conceptual design effort for an energy upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider …

Power Deposition in Superconducting Dispersion Suppressor Magnets Downstream of the Betatron Cleaning Insertion for HL-LHC

A Waets, M Sabaté-Gilarte, E Belli, R Bruce, S Redaelli… - 2021 - cds.cern.ch
The power deposited in dispersion suppressor magnets downstream of the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) betatron cleaning insertion is governed by off-momentum particles scattered …

[PDF][PDF] A comparison of interaction physics for proton collimation systems in current simulation tools

J Molson, R Appleby, R Barlow… - 8th Int. Particle …, 2017 - accelconf.web.cern.ch
Subsequently adapted to run with the LHC lattice and has been used to simulate the LHC
and FCC collimation systems. Interaction physics is based off K2, but with a number of …

Power deposition studies for standard and crystal-assisted heavy ion collimation inthe CERN Large Hadron Collider

JB Potoine, R Bruce, R Cai, F Cerutti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The LHC heavy-ion program with $^{208} $ Pb $^{82+} $ beams will benefit from a
significant increase of the beam intensity when entering its High-Luminosity era in Run~ 3 …

Benchmarks of Energy Deposition Studies for Heavy-Ion Collimation Losses at the LHC

JB Potoine, A Waets, F Wrobel, R Bruce, R Cai… - JACoW IPAC, 2022 - cds.cern.ch
During some periods in its second physics run (2015-2018), the LHC has been operated
with 208Pb⁸²⁺ ion beams at an energy of 6.37 ZTeV. The LHC is equipped with a betatron …

Simulation tools for heavy-ion tracking and collimation

PD Hermes, D Mirarchi, E Skordis, A Lechner… - 2018 - cds.cern.ch
The LHC collimation system, which protects the LHC hardware from undesired beam loss, is
less efficient with heavy-ion beams than with proton beams due to fragmentation into other …