Author: Skowronski, P.K.     [Skowroński, P.K.]
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MOPAB115 Transverse Beam Phase-Space Measurement Experience at CTF3 393
 
  • D. Gamba, B. Constance, R. Corsini, S. Döbert, L. Malina, T. Persson, J. Roberts, A.P. Rollings, P.K. Skowroński, F. Tecker
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • L. Martin
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • A.L. Peirson Serratosa
    Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  One of the objective of the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) at CERN is to demonstrate the CLIC Drive Beam Recombination concept. An accurate control of the transverse beam parameters is necessary in order to succeed in preserving the beam quality after the recombination. During the activity of the facility we improved our tools and technique for characterising the transverse phase space of the beam before and after recombination. The common quadrupole scan technique was improved by performing constant-beam-size measurement and it was enriched by a tomographic reconstruction of the phase-space. Moreover studies have been performed in order to estimate and subtract the impact of dispersion on such a measurements. An overview of these techniques will be presented with actual measurements performed over the last year of operations of the facility.  
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MOPAB130 Cross-Calibration of the LHC Transverse Beam-Profile Monitors 437
 
  • R. Alemany-Fernández, F. Alessio, A. Alexopoulos, C. Barschel, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, M. Ferro-Luzzi, A. Garcia-Tabares, M. Hostettler, O. Karacheban, E.H. Maclean, R. Matev, T. Persson, P.K. Skowroński, R. Tomás, G. Trad, S. Vlachos, B. Würkner
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • G.R. Coombs
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • T.B. Hadavizadeh
    Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • M. Hofer
    TU Vienna, Wien, Austria
  • L. van Riesen-Haupt
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
  Calibration of a transverse beam profile monitor is of fundamental importance to guarantee the best possible accuracy and reliability of the instrument over time. In LHC the calibration standard for transverse-profile measurements are the wire scanners. Other profile monitors such as beam synchrotron light telescopes and interferometers are calibrated with respect to them. Additional information about single-bunch sizes can be obtained from beam-gas imaging in the LHCb vertex detector, from the transverse convolved beam sizes extracted from luminosity scans at the collision points, and from the evolution of the luminous-region parameters as reconstructed by ATLAS and CMS inner tracker detectors during such scans. For the first time in LHC, a dedicated cross-calibration of all the above-mentioned systems was carried out with beam in 2016. Additionally, dedicated optics measurements were also performed in order to determine with the highest possible accuracy the amplitude function at the interaction points and at the position of the profile monitors. Results of these measurements are presented in this paper.  
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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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WEPIK093 New Methods for Measurement of Nonlinear Errors in LHC Experimental IRs and Their Application in the HL-LHC 3155
 
  • E.H. Maclean, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, A. Garcia-Tabares, M. Giovannozzi, L. Malina, T. Persson, P.K. Skowroński, R. Tomás
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Studies of nonlinear errors in LHC experimental insertions (IRs) during Run 1 were based upon feed-down to tune and coupling from the crossing angle orbit bumps. Useful for validating the magnetic model, this method alone is of limited use to understand discrepancies between magnetic and beam-based measurement. Feed-down from high-order multipoles is also difficult to observe. During Run 2 several alternative methods were tested in the LHC. This paper summarizes the results of these tests, and comments on their potential application to the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.  
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