Author: Mether, L.
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MOZA1 Electron Cloud Effects at the LHC and LHC Injectors 30
 
  • G. Rumolo, H. Bartosik, E. Belli, P. Dijkstal, G. Iadarola, K.S.B. Li, L. Mether, A. Romano, M. Schenk, F. Zimmermann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • E. Belli
    University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  • P. Dijkstal
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • M. Schenk
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  Electron cloud effects are one of the main limitations of the performance of the LHC and its injectors. Enormous progress has been done in the simulation of the electron cloud build-up and of the effects on beam stability while mitigation measures have been identified and implemented (scrubbing, low secondary electron yield coatings, etc.). The above has allowed reaching nominal beam parameters in the LHC during Run 2. A review of the studies and results obtained and the strategy and expected performance for the High Luminosity operation of the LHC will be presented.  
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TUPVA019 Impact and Mitigation of Electron Cloud Effects in the Operation of the Large Hadron Collider 2085
 
  • G. Iadarola, B. Bradu, P. Dijkstal, L. Mether, G. Rumolo
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  In 2015 and in 2016 the Large Hadron Collider has been routinely operated with 25 ns bunch spacing. With this beam configuration electron clouds develop in a large fraction of the beam chambers, in spite of a very large electron dose accumulated on the surfaces. This posed several challenges to different aspects of the beam operation. In particular, the machine settings had to be optimized in order to mitigate coherent and incoherent effects of the electron cloud on the beam dynamics while a specifically designed feed-forward control had to be implemented and optimized in order to dynamically adapt the regulations of the cryogenic system to the strong heat load deposited by the electron cloud on the beam screens of the cryogenic magnets. At the same time, the data collected from the different accelerator subsystems (heat loads, vacuum pressures, evolution of the bunch by bunch beam parameters) allowed to significantly improve our models and understanding on these phenomena.  
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THPAB043 Evolution of Python Tools for the Simulation of Electron Cloud Effects 3803
 
  • G. Iadarola, E. Belli, K.S.B. Li, L. Mether, A. Romano, G. Rumolo
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  PyECLOUD was originally developed as a tool for the simulation of electron cloud build-up in particle accelerators. Over the last five years the code has become part of a wider set of modular and scriptable python tools that can be combined to study different effects of the e-cloud in increasingly complex scenarios. The Particle In Cell solver originally included in PyECLOUD later developed into a stand-alone general purpose library (PyPIC) that now includes advanced features like a refined modeling of curved boundaries and optimized resolution based on the usage of nested grids. The effects of the e-cloud on the beam dynamics can be simulated interfacing PyECLOUD with the PyHEADTAIL code. These simulations can be computationally very demanding due to the multi-scale nature of this kind of problems. Hence, a dedicated parallelization layer (PyPARIS) has been recently developed to profit of parallel computing resources in order to significantly speed-up the computation.  
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