Author: Valentino, G.
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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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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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