Since the initial development of charged particle colliders in the middle of the 20th century,
these advanced scientific instruments have been at the forefront of scientific discoveries in …

Measurement and correction of charged particle beam optics have been a major concern
since the advent of strong focusing synchrotron accelerators. Traditionally, particle colliders …

A novel optics concept, the achromatic telescopic squeezing (ATS) scheme has been
invented in the context of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) upgrade studies, and chosen as …

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to collide proton beams of
unprecedented energy, in order to extend the frontiers of high-energy particle physics …

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 …

Abstract Machine learning entails a broad range of techniques that have been widely used
in Science and Engineering since decades. High-energy physics has also profited from the …

Since 2015 the LHC has been operating at 6.5 TeV. In 2016 the β-functions at the interaction
points of ATLAS and CMS were squeezed to 0.4 m. This is below the design β*= 0.55 m at 7 …

Abstract Operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) requires strong octupolar magnetic
fields to suppress coherent beam instabilities. The amplitude detuning that is generated by …

The first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was very successful and resulted
in important physics discoveries. One way of increasing the luminosity in a collider, which …

The control of the betatron coupling is of importance for safe beam operation in the LHC. In
this article we show recent advancements in methods and algorithms to measure and …