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Linac4 is a 160 MeV H− ion linear accelerator, presently under construction, which will replace the 50 MeV Linac2 as injector of the CERN proton complex. Linac4 is a 90 m long normal-conducting Linac made of a 3 MeV Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) followed by a 50 MeV Drift Tube Linac (DTL), a 100 MeV Cell-Coupled Drift Tube Linac (CCDTL) and a Pi-Mode Structure (PIMS). Starting in 2013, five commissioning stages, interlaced with installation periods, are foreseen at the energies of 3, 12, 50, 100 and 160 MeV. In addition to the diagnostics permanently installed in the Linac, temporary measurement benches will be located at the end of each structure and will be used for beam commissioning. Comprehensive beam dynamics simulations were carried out through the Linac and the diagnostic benches to define a commissioning procedure, which is summarised in this paper. In particular, we will present a method for emittance reconstruction from profile measurements which keeps into account the effects of space charge and finite diagnostics resolution.
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