Author: Le Godec, G.
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TUPPR093 Sources and Solutions for LHC Transfer Line Stability Issues 2047
 
  • L.N. Drosdal, W. Bartmann, C. Bracco, B. Goddard, V. Kain, G. Le Godec, M. Meddahi, J.A. Uythoven
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The LHC is filled through two 3km transfer lines from the last pre-injector, the SPS. Safe injection into the LHC requires stable trajectories in the transfer lines. During the LHC proton operations 2011 instabilities were observed. In particular shot-by-shot and bunch-by-bunch variations cause difficulties for steering of the beam and can potentially cause high beam losses at injection. The causes of these instabilities have been studied and will be presented in this paper. Based on the studies solutions will be proposed and finally the effects of the solutions will be studied.