IPAC2017 - List of Authors (Redaelli, S.)

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MOPAB001	Status of the FCC-hh Collimation System	64
	J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe LAL, Orsay, France R. Bruce, M. Fiascaris, A.M. Krainer, S. Redaelli CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: Funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305. The future circular hadron collider (FCC-hh) will have an unprecedented proton beam energy of 50 TeV, and total stored beam energy of 8.4 GJ. We discuss current developments in the collimation system design, and methods with which the challenges faced due to the high energies involved can be mitigated. Finally simulation results of new collimation system designs are presented.
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MOPAB003	Energy Deposition in the Betatron Collimation Insertion of the 100 TeV Future Circular Collider	68
	M.I. Besana, C. Bahamonde Castro, A. Bertarelli, R. Bruce, F. Carra, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, M. Fiascaris, A. Lechner, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, E. Skordis, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The FCC proton beam is designed to carry a total energy of about 8500 MJ, a factor of 20 above the LHC. In this context, the collimation system has to deal with extremely tight requirements to prevent quenches and material damage. A first layout of the betatron cleaning insertion was conceived, adapting the present LHC collimation system to the FCC lattice. A crucial ingredient to assess its performance, in particular to estimate the robustness of the protection devices and the load on the downstream elements, is represented by the simulation of the particle shower generated at the collimators, allowing detailed energy deposition estimations. This paper presents the first results of the simulation chain starting from the proton losses generated with the Sixtrack-FLUKA coupling, as currently done for the present LHC and for its upgrade. Expectations in terms of total power, peak power density and integrated dose on the different accelerator components are presented.
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MOPAB004	Improved Protection of the Warm Magnets of the LHC Betatron Cleaning Insertion	72
	C. Bahamonde Castro, F. Cerutti, P. Fessia, A. Lechner, A. Mereghetti, D. Mirarchi, S. Redaelli, E. Skordis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland E. Skordis The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
	After the High Luminosity (HL) upgrade in 2024-2026, the LHC is anticipated to increase its integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond its original design value of 300 fb-1. In preparation for this, several improvements to the equipment will already be implemented during the next Long Shutdown (LS2) starting in 2019. In the betatron cleaning insertion, the debris leaking out of several collimators will deposit energy in the downstream warm magnets, causing long-term radiation damage. A new layout has been proposed in which the most exposed magnet of each assembly is removed, reducing the assembly from 6 to 5 magnet units and gaining 2 spare magnets. New absorbers are therefore required to enhance the shielding of the remaining magnet string. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the dose to the warm magnets for post-LS2 operation, and we quantify the achievable reduction of the long-term radiation damage for different absorber configurations. A solution for an improved magnet protection that fulfills the HL-LHC requirements is proposed.
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MOPAB005	The MultiMat Experiment at CERN HiRadMat Facility: Advanced Testing of Novel Materials and Instrumentation for HL-LHC Collimators	76
	F. Carra, A. Bertarelli, E. Berthomé, C. Fichera, J. Guardia, M. Guinchard, L.K. Mettler, S. Redaelli, O. Sacristan De Frutos CERN, Geneva, Switzerland T.R. Furness University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom M. Portelli UoM, Msida, Malta
	Funding: Part of the work described in this thesis was developed in the scope of the EuCARD-2 Project, WP11 'ColMat ' HDED', co-funded by the partners and the European Commission under Capacities 7th Framework Programme, Grant Agreement n. 312453. Research supported by the HL-LHC project. The increase of the stored beam energy in future particle accelerators, such as the HL-LHC and the FCC, calls for a radical upgrade in the design, materials and instrumentation of Beam Intercepting Devices (BID), such as collimators Following successful tests in 2015 that validated new composite materials and a novel jaw design conceived for the HL-LHC collimators, a new HiRadMat experiment, named 'HRMT36-MultiMat', is scheduled for autumn 2017. Its objective is to determine the behaviour under high intensity proton beams of a broad range of materials relevant for collimators and beam intercepting devices, thin-film coatings and advanced equipment. The test bench features 16 separate target stations, each hosting various specimens, allowing the exploration of complex phenomena such as dynamic strength, internal damping, nonlinearities due to anisotropic inelasticity and inhomogeneity, effects of energy deposition and radiation on coatings. This paper details the main technical solutions and engineering calculations for the design of the test bench and of the specimens, the candidate target materials and the instrumentation system #federico.carra@cern.ch*
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MOPAB006	Design and Prototyping of New CERN Collimators in the Framework of the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) Project and the High-Luminosity (HL-LHC) Project	80
	F.-X. Nuiry, O. Aberle, M. Bergeret, A. Bertarelli, N. Biancacci, R. Bruce, M. Calviani, F. Carra, A. Dallocchio, L. Gentini, S.S. Gilardoni, R. Illan Fiastre, I. Lamas Garcia, A. Masi, A. Perillo-Marcone, S. Pianese, S. Redaelli, E. Rigutto, B. Salvant CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	In the framework of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Injectors Upgrade (LIU) and the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Projects at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland), collimators in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to LHC transfer lines as well as ring collimators in the LHC will undergo important upgrades in the forthcoming years, mainly focused during the Long Shutdown 2 foreseen during 2019-2020. This contribution will detail the current design of the TCDIL collimators with a particular emphasis on the engineering developments performed on the collimator jaws, aiming at getting a stringent flatness while consid-ering also the integration of thermal shock resistant materials. The prototyping phase done at CERN will be also described. The activities ongoing to prepare the series production for other LHC collimator types (TCPPM, TCSPM, TCTPM, TCLD) will be presented, describing the role that each of these collimators play on the HL-LHC Project. A focus on the series production processes, the manufacturing and assembly technologies involved and the quality and performance assurance tests will be given.
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MOPAB007	Status of Crystal Collimation Studies at the LHC	84
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	R. Rossi, O. Aberle, O.Ø. Andreassen, M.E.J. Butcher, C.A. Dionisio Barreto, I. Lamas Garcia, A. Masi, D. Mirarchi, S. Montesano, S. Redaelli, A. Rijllart, W. Scandale, P. Serrano Galvez, G. Valentino CERN, Geneva, Switzerland F. Galluccio INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
	Crystal collimation is a technique that relies on highly pure bent crystals to coherently deflect beam particles - through the channeling mechanisms - onto dedicated absorbers. Standard multi-stage collimation systems for hadron beams use amorphous materials as primary collimators and might be limited by nuclear interactions and ion fragmentation that are strongly suppressed in crystals. A crystal collimation setup was installed in the betatron cleaning insertion of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to demonstrate with LHC beams the feasibility of this concept and to compare its performance with that of the present system. Channeling was observed for the first time with 6.5 TeV beam and and plans for further crystal collimation beam tests at the LHC are discussed. Results of these first beam tests are presented.
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MOPAB009	Decomposition of Beam Losses at LHC	88
	B. Salvachua, D. Mirarchi, M. Pojer, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, G. Valentino, M. Wyszynski CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The LHC collimation system provides betatron cleaning and off-momentum cleaning in two different locations of the LHC ring. In the betatron cleaning area, three primary collimators cut the primary halo in horizontal, vertical and skew planes. The beam loss monitors located downstream each of these collimators can be used to diagnose the main plane of loss. We present here a method to identify these beam losses at the LHC and decompose them as a linear combination of loss scenarios using singular value decomposition to calculate Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of the scenario matrix. This matrix has been used to evaluate the type of beam losses in different stages of the LHC cycle.
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MOPAB010	Anomaly Detection for Beam Loss Maps in the Large Hadron Collider	92
	G. Valentino University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta R. Bruce, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, P. Theodoropoulos CERN, Geneva, Switzerland S. Jaster-Merz University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
	In the LHC, beam loss maps are used to validate collimator settings for cleaning and machine protection. This is done by monitoring the loss distribution in the ring during infrequent controlled loss map campaigns, as well as in standard operation. Due to the complexity of the system, consisting of more than 50 collimators per beam, it is difficult to identify small changes in the collimation hierarchy, which may be due to setting errors or beam orbit drifts with such methods. A technique based on Principal Component Analysis and Local Outlier Factor is presented to detect anomalies in the loss maps and therefore provide an automatic check of the collimation hierarchy.
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MOPAB012	Study of the 2015 Top Energy LHC Collimation Quench Tests Through an Advanced Simulation Chain	100
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	E. Skordis, C.P. Welsch The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, P.D. Hermes, A. Lechner, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, E. Skordis, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland C.P. Welsch Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	While the LHC has shown record-breaking perfor-mance during the 2016 run, our understanding of the behaviour of the machine must also reach new levels. The collimation system and especially the betatron cleaning insertion region (IR7), where most of the beam halo is intercepted to protect superconducting (SC) magnets from quenching, has so far met the expectations but could nonetheless pose a bottleneck for future operation at higher beam intensities for HL-LHC. A better under-standing of the collimation leakage to SC magnets is required in order to quantify potential limitations in terms of cleaning efficiency, ultimately optimising the collider capabilities. Particle tracking simulations com-bined with shower simulations represent a powerful tool for quantifying the power deposition in magnets next to the cleaning insertion. In this study, we benchmark the simulation models against beam loss monitor measure-ments from magnet quench tests (QT) with 6.5 TeV pro-ton and 6.37Z TeV Pb ion beams. In addition, we investi-gate the effect of possible imperfections on the collima-tion leakage and the power deposition in magnets.
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MOPIK048	Experimental Results of Crystal-Assisted Slow Extraction at the SPS	623
	M.A. Fraser, S.S. Gilardoni, B. Goddard, V. Kain, D. Mirarchi, S. Montesano, S. Petrucci, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, W. Scandale, L.S. Stoel, F.M. Velotti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland F.M. Addesa, G. Cavoto, F. Iacoangeli INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy F. Galluccio INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy F. Murtas INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	The possibility of extracting highly energetic particles from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) by means of silicon bent crystals has been explored since the 1990's. The channelling effect of a bent crystal can be used to strongly deflect primary protons and eject them from the synchrotron. Many studies and experiments have been carried out to investigate crystal channelling effects. The extraction of 120 and 270 GeV proton beams has already been demonstrated in the SPS with dedicated experiments located in the ring. Presently in the SPS, the UA9 experiment is performing studies to evaluate the possibility to use bent silicon crystals to steer particle beams in high energy accelerators. Recent studies on the feasibility of extraction from the SPS have been made using the UA9 infrastructure with a longer-term view of using crystals to help mitigate slow extraction induced activation of the SPS. In this paper, the possibility to eject particles into the extraction channel in LSS2 using the bent crystals already installed in the SPS is presented. Details of the concept, simulations and measurements carried out with beam are presented, before the outlook for the future is discussed.
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TUPVA025	Observations of Beam Losses at the LHC During Reduction of Crossing Angle	2105
	B. Salvachua, X. Buffat, A.A. Gorzawski, T. Pieloni, S. Redaelli, C. Tambasco, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Barranco García, A.A. Gorzawski EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland M.P. Crouch UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
	Several machine development studies have been performed in 2016 at the LHC in order to evaluate the effects of reducing the crossing angles in favor of defining the maximum achievable luminosity in the ATLAS and CMS experiments. At the end of the LHC proton-proton run at 6.5TeV the reduction of the crossing angle from 185urad to 140urad was operationally implemented. The observation of beam losses and lifetimes during this process are analysed and discussed.
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TUPVA115	Progress with Long-Range Beam-Beam Compensation Studies for High Luminosity LHC	2358
	A. Rossi, O. Aberle, J. Albertone, A. Bertarelli, C.B. Boccard, F. Carra, G. Cattenoz, Y. Delaup, S.D. Fartoukh, G. Gobbi, J. Lendaro, Y. Papaphilippou, D. Perini, S. Redaelli, H. Schmickler, C. Zanoni CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A.M. Barnyakov, A.E. Levichev, D.A. Nikiforov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia M. Fitterer, A.S. Patapenka, G. Stancari, A. Valishev Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Long-range beam-beam (LRBB) interactions can be a source of emittance growth and beam losses in the LHC during physics and will become even more relevant with the smaller '* and higher bunch intensities foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade (HL-LHC), in particular if operated without crab cavities. Both beam losses and emittance growth could be mitigated by compensat-ing the non-linear LRBB kick with a correctly placed current carrying wire. Such a compensation scheme is currently being studied in the LHC through a demonstration test using current-bearing wires embedded into col-limator jaws, installed either side of the high luminosity interaction regions. For HL-LHC two options are considered, a current-bearing wire as for the demonstrator, or electron lenses, as the ideal distance between the particle beam and compensating current may be too small to allow the use of solid materials. This paper reports on the ongoing activities for both options, covering the progress of the wire-in-jaw collimators, the foreseen LRBB experiments at the LHC, and first considerations for the design of the electron lenses to ultimately replace material wires for HL-LHC.
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WEOBA1	A Comparison of Interaction Physics for Proton Collimation Systems in Current Simulation Tools	2478
	J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe LAL, Orsay, France R.B. Appleby, S.C. Tygier UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom R.J. Barlow IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland H. Rafique University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Y. Zou IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	Funding: The European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider Study (EuroCirCol) project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305. High performance collimation systems are required for current and proposed high energy hadron accelerators in order to protect superconducting magnets and experiments. In order to ensure that the collimation system designs are sufficient and will operate as expected, precision simulation tools are required. This paper discusses the current status of existing collimation system tools, and performs a comparison between codes in order to ensure that the simulated interaction physics between a proton and a collimator jaw is accurate.
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WEOBA2	Hollow Electron Beam Collimation for HL-LHC - Effects on the Beam Core	2482
	M. Fitterer, G. Stancari, A. Valishev Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA R. Bruce, G. Papotti, S. Redaelli, D. Valuch, C. Xu CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Valentino University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
	Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy. Collimation with hollow electron beams is currently one of the most promising concepts for active halo control in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). To ensure the successful operation of the hollow beam collimator the unwanted effects on the beam core, which might arise from the operation with a pulsed electron beam, must be minimized. This paper gives a summary of the effect of hollow electron lenses on the beam core in terms of sources, provides estimates for HL-LHC and discusses the possible mitigation methods.
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WEPIK030	Experimental Validation of the Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing Scheme at the LHC	2992
	S.D. Fartoukh, R. Bruce, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, A. Garcia-Tabares, E.H. Maclean, L. Malina, A. Mereghetti, D. Mirarchi, T. Persson, M. Pojer, L. Ponce, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, P.K. Skowroński, M. Solfaroli, R. Tomás, D. Valuch, A. Wegscheider, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) [1] scheme offers new techniques to deliver unprecedentedly small beam spot size at the interaction points of the ATLAS and CMS experiments of the LHC, while perfectly controlling the chromatic properties of the corresponding optics (linear and non-linear chromaticities, off-momentum beta-beating, spurious dispersion induced by the crossing bumps). The first series of beam tests with ATS optics were achieved during the LHC Run I (2011/2012) for a first validation of the basics of the scheme at small intensity. In 2016, a new generation of more performing ATS optics was developed and more extensively tested in the machine, still with probe beams for optics measurement and correction at β^=10 cm, but also with a few nominal bunches to establish first collisions at nominal β^ (40 cm) and beyond (33 cm), and to analysis the robustness of these optics in terms of collimation and machine protection. The paper will highlight the most relevant and conclusive results which were obtained during this second series of ATS tests. [1] S. Fartoukh , Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 16, 111002
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WEPVA113	Thermo-Physical and Mechanical Characterisation of Novel Materials under Development for HL-LHC Beam Intercepting Devices	3536
	O. Sacristan De Frutos, A. Bertarelli, L. Bianchi, F. Carra, J. Guardia, M. Guinchard, S. Redaelli CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures project EuCARD-2, grant agreement no.312453 The collimation system for high energy particle accelerators as HL-LHC, must be designed to withstand the close interaction with intense and energetic particle beams, safely operating over an extended range of temperatures in extreme conditions (pressure, strain-rate, radiation), which are to become more demanding with the High Luminosity LHC. In order to withstand such conditions, the candidate materials must possess among other properties outstanding thermal shock resistance and high thermal and electrical conductivity, condition only met by advanced or novel materials. Therefore, an extensive R&D program has been launched to develop novel materials capable of replacing or complementing materials used for present collimators. So far, Molybdenum Carbide - Graphite and Copper-Diamond composites have been identified as the most promising materials. Literature data are scarce or non-existing for these materials. For this reason the successive characterisation campaigns constitute a linchpin of the R&D program. This paper reviews the experimental program followed for the thermo-physical and mechanical characterisation of the materials, and discusses the most relevant results.
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THPAB041	Implementation of Hollow Electron Lenses in SixTrack and First Simulation Results for the HL-LHC	3795
	M. Fitterer, R. De Maria, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, J.F. Wagner CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Stancari, A. Valishev Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy. Electron lenses have found a wide range of applications for hadron colliders, where the main applications are machine protection and beam-beam compensation. This paper summarizes the status of the current electron lens implementation in SixTrack with the focus on hollow electron beams for beam collimation and shows some first simulation results of the High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC).
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THPAB046	SixTrack for Cleaning Studies: 2017 Updates	3811
	A. Mereghetti, R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, R. De Maria, A. Ferrari, M. Fiascaris, P.D. Hermes, D. Mirarchi, P.G. Ortega, D. Pastor Sinuela, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Molson LAL, Orsay, France Y. Zou IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	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) for predicting dynamic aperture and cleaning inefficiency in large circular machines like the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The code is under continuous development, to both extend its physics models, and enhance performance. The present work gives an overview of developments, specifically aimed at extending the code capabilities for cleaning studies. They mainly involve: the online aperture check; the possibility to perform simulations coupled to advanced Monte Carlo codes like Fluka or using the scattering event generator of the Merlin code; the generalisation of tracking maps to ion species; the implementation of composite materials of relevance for the future upgrades of the LHC collimators; the physics of interactions with bent crystals. Plans to merge these functionalities into a single version of the SixTrack code will be outlined.
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Status of the FCC-hh Collimation System

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J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe
LAL, Orsay, France
R. Bruce, M. Fiascaris, A.M. Krainer, S. Redaelli
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: Funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305.
The future circular hadron collider (FCC-hh) will have an unprecedented proton beam energy of 50 TeV, and total stored beam energy of 8.4 GJ. We discuss current developments in the collimation system design, and methods with which the challenges faced due to the high energies involved can be mitigated. Finally simulation results of new collimation system designs are presented.

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MOPAB003

Energy Deposition in the Betatron Collimation Insertion of the 100 TeV Future Circular Collider

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M.I. Besana, C. Bahamonde Castro, A. Bertarelli, R. Bruce, F. Carra, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, M. Fiascaris, A. Lechner, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, E. Skordis, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The FCC proton beam is designed to carry a total energy of about 8500 MJ, a factor of 20 above the LHC. In this context, the collimation system has to deal with extremely tight requirements to prevent quenches and material damage. A first layout of the betatron cleaning insertion was conceived, adapting the present LHC collimation system to the FCC lattice. A crucial ingredient to assess its performance, in particular to estimate the robustness of the protection devices and the load on the downstream elements, is represented by the simulation of the particle shower generated at the collimators, allowing detailed energy deposition estimations. This paper presents the first results of the simulation chain starting from the proton losses generated with the Sixtrack-FLUKA coupling, as currently done for the present LHC and for its upgrade. Expectations in terms of total power, peak power density and integrated dose on the different accelerator components are presented.

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MOPAB004

Improved Protection of the Warm Magnets of the LHC Betatron Cleaning Insertion

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C. Bahamonde Castro, F. Cerutti, P. Fessia, A. Lechner, A. Mereghetti, D. Mirarchi, S. Redaelli, E. Skordis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
E. Skordis
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

After the High Luminosity (HL) upgrade in 2024-2026, the LHC is anticipated to increase its integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond its original design value of 300 fb-1. In preparation for this, several improvements to the equipment will already be implemented during the next Long Shutdown (LS2) starting in 2019. In the betatron cleaning insertion, the debris leaking out of several collimators will deposit energy in the downstream warm magnets, causing long-term radiation damage. A new layout has been proposed in which the most exposed magnet of each assembly is removed, reducing the assembly from 6 to 5 magnet units and gaining 2 spare magnets. New absorbers are therefore required to enhance the shielding of the remaining magnet string. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the dose to the warm magnets for post-LS2 operation, and we quantify the achievable reduction of the long-term radiation damage for different absorber configurations. A solution for an improved magnet protection that fulfills the HL-LHC requirements is proposed.

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MOPAB005

The MultiMat Experiment at CERN HiRadMat Facility: Advanced Testing of Novel Materials and Instrumentation for HL-LHC Collimators

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F. Carra, A. Bertarelli, E. Berthomé, C. Fichera, J. Guardia, M. Guinchard, L.K. Mettler, S. Redaelli, O. Sacristan De Frutos
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
T.R. Furness
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
M. Portelli
UoM, Msida, Malta

Funding: *Part of the work described in this thesis was developed in the scope of the EuCARD-2 Project, WP11 'ColMat ' HDED', co-funded by the partners and the European Commission under Capacities 7th Framework Programme, Grant Agreement n. 312453. Research supported by the HL-LHC project.
The increase of the stored beam energy in future particle accelerators, such as the HL-LHC and the FCC, calls for a radical upgrade in the design, materials and instrumentation of Beam Intercepting Devices (BID), such as collimators Following successful tests in 2015 that validated new composite materials and a novel jaw design conceived for the HL-LHC collimators, a new HiRadMat experiment, named 'HRMT36-MultiMat', is scheduled for autumn 2017. Its objective is to determine the behaviour under high intensity proton beams of a broad range of materials relevant for collimators and beam intercepting devices, thin-film coatings and advanced equipment. The test bench features 16 separate target stations, each hosting various specimens, allowing the exploration of complex phenomena such as dynamic strength, internal damping, nonlinearities due to anisotropic inelasticity and inhomogeneity, effects of energy deposition and radiation on coatings. This paper details the main technical solutions and engineering calculations for the design of the test bench and of the specimens, the candidate target materials and the instrumentation system
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MOPAB006

Design and Prototyping of New CERN Collimators in the Framework of the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) Project and the High-Luminosity (HL-LHC) Project

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F.-X. Nuiry, O. Aberle, M. Bergeret, A. Bertarelli, N. Biancacci, R. Bruce, M. Calviani, F. Carra, A. Dallocchio, L. Gentini, S.S. Gilardoni, R. Illan Fiastre, I. Lamas Garcia, A. Masi, A. Perillo-Marcone, S. Pianese, S. Redaelli, E. Rigutto, B. Salvant
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In the framework of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Injectors Upgrade (LIU) and the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Projects at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland), collimators in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to LHC transfer lines as well as ring collimators in the LHC will undergo important upgrades in the forthcoming years, mainly focused during the Long Shutdown 2 foreseen during 2019-2020. This contribution will detail the current design of the TCDIL collimators with a particular emphasis on the engineering developments performed on the collimator jaws, aiming at getting a stringent flatness while consid-ering also the integration of thermal shock resistant materials. The prototyping phase done at CERN will be also described. The activities ongoing to prepare the series production for other LHC collimator types (TCPPM, TCSPM, TCTPM, TCLD) will be presented, describing the role that each of these collimators play on the HL-LHC Project. A focus on the series production processes, the manufacturing and assembly technologies involved and the quality and performance assurance tests will be given.

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MOPAB007

Status of Crystal Collimation Studies at the LHC

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R. Rossi, O. Aberle, O.Ø. Andreassen, M.E.J. Butcher, C.A. Dionisio Barreto, I. Lamas Garcia, A. Masi, D. Mirarchi, S. Montesano, S. Redaelli, A. Rijllart, W. Scandale, P. Serrano Galvez, G. Valentino
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
F. Galluccio
INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Crystal collimation is a technique that relies on highly pure bent crystals to coherently deflect beam particles - through the channeling mechanisms - onto dedicated absorbers. Standard multi-stage collimation systems for hadron beams use amorphous materials as primary collimators and might be limited by nuclear interactions and ion fragmentation that are strongly suppressed in crystals. A crystal collimation setup was installed in the betatron cleaning insertion of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to demonstrate with LHC beams the feasibility of this concept and to compare its performance with that of the present system. Channeling was observed for the first time with 6.5 TeV beam and and plans for further crystal collimation beam tests at the LHC are discussed. Results of these first beam tests are presented.

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MOPAB009

Decomposition of Beam Losses at LHC

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B. Salvachua, D. Mirarchi, M. Pojer, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, G. Valentino, M. Wyszynski
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The LHC collimation system provides betatron cleaning and off-momentum cleaning in two different locations of the LHC ring. In the betatron cleaning area, three primary collimators cut the primary halo in horizontal, vertical and skew planes. The beam loss monitors located downstream each of these collimators can be used to diagnose the main plane of loss. We present here a method to identify these beam losses at the LHC and decompose them as a linear combination of loss scenarios using singular value decomposition to calculate Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of the scenario matrix. This matrix has been used to evaluate the type of beam losses in different stages of the LHC cycle.

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MOPAB010

Anomaly Detection for Beam Loss Maps in the Large Hadron Collider

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G. Valentino
University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
R. Bruce, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, P. Theodoropoulos
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
S. Jaster-Merz
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

In the LHC, beam loss maps are used to validate collimator settings for cleaning and machine protection. This is done by monitoring the loss distribution in the ring during infrequent controlled loss map campaigns, as well as in standard operation. Due to the complexity of the system, consisting of more than 50 collimators per beam, it is difficult to identify small changes in the collimation hierarchy, which may be due to setting errors or beam orbit drifts with such methods. A technique based on Principal Component Analysis and Local Outlier Factor is presented to detect anomalies in the loss maps and therefore provide an automatic check of the collimation hierarchy.

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MOPAB012

Study of the 2015 Top Energy LHC Collimation Quench Tests Through an Advanced Simulation Chain

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E. Skordis, C.P. Welsch
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, P.D. Hermes, A. Lechner, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, E. Skordis, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
C.P. Welsch
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

While the LHC has shown record-breaking perfor-mance during the 2016 run, our understanding of the behaviour of the machine must also reach new levels. The collimation system and especially the betatron cleaning insertion region (IR7), where most of the beam halo is intercepted to protect superconducting (SC) magnets from quenching, has so far met the expectations but could nonetheless pose a bottleneck for future operation at higher beam intensities for HL-LHC. A better under-standing of the collimation leakage to SC magnets is required in order to quantify potential limitations in terms of cleaning efficiency, ultimately optimising the collider capabilities. Particle tracking simulations com-bined with shower simulations represent a powerful tool for quantifying the power deposition in magnets next to the cleaning insertion. In this study, we benchmark the simulation models against beam loss monitor measure-ments from magnet quench tests (QT) with 6.5 TeV pro-ton and 6.37Z TeV Pb ion beams. In addition, we investi-gate the effect of possible imperfections on the collima-tion leakage and the power deposition in magnets.

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MOPIK048

Experimental Results of Crystal-Assisted Slow Extraction at the SPS

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M.A. Fraser, S.S. Gilardoni, B. Goddard, V. Kain, D. Mirarchi, S. Montesano, S. Petrucci, S. Redaelli, R. Rossi, W. Scandale, L.S. Stoel, F.M. Velotti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
F.M. Addesa, G. Cavoto, F. Iacoangeli
INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy
F. Galluccio
INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
F. Murtas
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy

The possibility of extracting highly energetic particles from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) by means of silicon bent crystals has been explored since the 1990's. The channelling effect of a bent crystal can be used to strongly deflect primary protons and eject them from the synchrotron. Many studies and experiments have been carried out to investigate crystal channelling effects. The extraction of 120 and 270 GeV proton beams has already been demonstrated in the SPS with dedicated experiments located in the ring. Presently in the SPS, the UA9 experiment is performing studies to evaluate the possibility to use bent silicon crystals to steer particle beams in high energy accelerators. Recent studies on the feasibility of extraction from the SPS have been made using the UA9 infrastructure with a longer-term view of using crystals to help mitigate slow extraction induced activation of the SPS. In this paper, the possibility to eject particles into the extraction channel in LSS2 using the bent crystals already installed in the SPS is presented. Details of the concept, simulations and measurements carried out with beam are presented, before the outlook for the future is discussed.

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TUPVA025

Observations of Beam Losses at the LHC During Reduction of Crossing Angle

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B. Salvachua, X. Buffat, A.A. Gorzawski, T. Pieloni, S. Redaelli, C. Tambasco, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Barranco García, A.A. Gorzawski
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
M.P. Crouch
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom

Several machine development studies have been performed in 2016 at the LHC in order to evaluate the effects of reducing the crossing angles in favor of defining the maximum achievable luminosity in the ATLAS and CMS experiments. At the end of the LHC proton-proton run at 6.5TeV the reduction of the crossing angle from 185urad to 140urad was operationally implemented. The observation of beam losses and lifetimes during this process are analysed and discussed.

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TUPVA115

Progress with Long-Range Beam-Beam Compensation Studies for High Luminosity LHC

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A. Rossi, O. Aberle, J. Albertone, A. Bertarelli, C.B. Boccard, F. Carra, G. Cattenoz, Y. Delaup, S.D. Fartoukh, G. Gobbi, J. Lendaro, Y. Papaphilippou, D. Perini, S. Redaelli, H. Schmickler, C. Zanoni
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A.M. Barnyakov, A.E. Levichev, D.A. Nikiforov
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
M. Fitterer, A.S. Patapenka, G. Stancari, A. Valishev
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Long-range beam-beam (LRBB) interactions can be a source of emittance growth and beam losses in the LHC during physics and will become even more relevant with the smaller '* and higher bunch intensities foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade (HL-LHC), in particular if operated without crab cavities. Both beam losses and emittance growth could be mitigated by compensat-ing the non-linear LRBB kick with a correctly placed current carrying wire. Such a compensation scheme is currently being studied in the LHC through a demonstration test using current-bearing wires embedded into col-limator jaws, installed either side of the high luminosity interaction regions. For HL-LHC two options are considered, a current-bearing wire as for the demonstrator, or electron lenses, as the ideal distance between the particle beam and compensating current may be too small to allow the use of solid materials. This paper reports on the ongoing activities for both options, covering the progress of the wire-in-jaw collimators, the foreseen LRBB experiments at the LHC, and first considerations for the design of the electron lenses to ultimately replace material wires for HL-LHC.

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WEOBA1

A Comparison of Interaction Physics for Proton Collimation Systems in Current Simulation Tools

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J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe
LAL, Orsay, France
R.B. Appleby, S.C. Tygier
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
R.J. Barlow
IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
H. Rafique
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Y. Zou
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Funding: The European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider Study (EuroCirCol) project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305.
High performance collimation systems are required for current and proposed high energy hadron accelerators in order to protect superconducting magnets and experiments. In order to ensure that the collimation system designs are sufficient and will operate as expected, precision simulation tools are required. This paper discusses the current status of existing collimation system tools, and performs a comparison between codes in order to ensure that the simulated interaction physics between a proton and a collimator jaw is accurate.

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WEOBA2

Hollow Electron Beam Collimation for HL-LHC - Effects on the Beam Core

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M. Fitterer, G. Stancari, A. Valishev
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
R. Bruce, G. Papotti, S. Redaelli, D. Valuch, C. Xu
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. Valentino
University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta

Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy.
Collimation with hollow electron beams is currently one of the most promising concepts for active halo control in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). To ensure the successful operation of the hollow beam collimator the unwanted effects on the beam core, which might arise from the operation with a pulsed electron beam, must be minimized. This paper gives a summary of the effect of hollow electron lenses on the beam core in terms of sources, provides estimates for HL-LHC and discusses the possible mitigation methods.

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WEPIK030

Experimental Validation of the Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing Scheme at the LHC

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S.D. Fartoukh, R. Bruce, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, A. Garcia-Tabares, E.H. Maclean, L. Malina, A. Mereghetti, D. Mirarchi, T. Persson, M. Pojer, L. Ponce, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, P.K. Skowroński, M. Solfaroli, R. Tomás, D. Valuch, A. Wegscheider, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) [1] scheme offers new techniques to deliver unprecedentedly small beam spot size at the interaction points of the ATLAS and CMS experiments of the LHC, while perfectly controlling the chromatic properties of the corresponding optics (linear and non-linear chromaticities, off-momentum beta-beating, spurious dispersion induced by the crossing bumps). The first series of beam tests with ATS optics were achieved during the LHC Run I (2011/2012) for a first validation of the basics of the scheme at small intensity. In 2016, a new generation of more performing ATS optics was developed and more extensively tested in the machine, still with probe beams for optics measurement and correction at β^*=10 cm, but also with a few nominal bunches to establish first collisions at nominal β^* (40 cm) and beyond (33 cm), and to analysis the robustness of these optics in terms of collimation and machine protection. The paper will highlight the most relevant and conclusive results which were obtained during this second series of ATS tests.
[1] S. Fartoukh , Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 16, 111002

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WEPVA113

Thermo-Physical and Mechanical Characterisation of Novel Materials under Development for HL-LHC Beam Intercepting Devices

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O. Sacristan De Frutos, A. Bertarelli, L. Bianchi, F. Carra, J. Guardia, M. Guinchard, S. Redaelli
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures project EuCARD-2, grant agreement no.312453
The collimation system for high energy particle accelerators as HL-LHC, must be designed to withstand the close interaction with intense and energetic particle beams, safely operating over an extended range of temperatures in extreme conditions (pressure, strain-rate, radiation), which are to become more demanding with the High Luminosity LHC. In order to withstand such conditions, the candidate materials must possess among other properties outstanding thermal shock resistance and high thermal and electrical conductivity, condition only met by advanced or novel materials. Therefore, an extensive R&D program has been launched to develop novel materials capable of replacing or complementing materials used for present collimators. So far, Molybdenum Carbide - Graphite and Copper-Diamond composites have been identified as the most promising materials. Literature data are scarce or non-existing for these materials. For this reason the successive characterisation campaigns constitute a linchpin of the R&D program. This paper reviews the experimental program followed for the thermo-physical and mechanical characterisation of the materials, and discusses the most relevant results.

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THPAB041

Implementation of Hollow Electron Lenses in SixTrack and First Simulation Results for the HL-LHC

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M. Fitterer, R. De Maria, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, J.F. Wagner
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. Stancari, A. Valishev
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy.
Electron lenses have found a wide range of applications for hadron colliders, where the main applications are machine protection and beam-beam compensation. This paper summarizes the status of the current electron lens implementation in SixTrack with the focus on hollow electron beams for beam collimation and shows some first simulation results of the High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC).

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THPAB046

SixTrack for Cleaning Studies: 2017 Updates

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A. Mereghetti, R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, R. De Maria, A. Ferrari, M. Fiascaris, P.D. Hermes, D. Mirarchi, P.G. Ortega, D. Pastor Sinuela, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Molson
LAL, Orsay, France
Y. Zou
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

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) for predicting dynamic aperture and cleaning inefficiency in large circular machines like the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The code is under continuous development, to both extend its physics models, and enhance performance. The present work gives an overview of developments, specifically aimed at extending the code capabilities for cleaning studies. They mainly involve: the online aperture check; the possibility to perform simulations coupled to advanced Monte Carlo codes like Fluka or using the scattering event generator of the Merlin code; the generalisation of tracking maps to ion species; the implementation of composite materials of relevance for the future upgrades of the LHC collimators; the physics of interactions with bent crystals. Plans to merge these functionalities into a single version of the SixTrack code will be outlined.

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