Author: Schmidt, F.
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WEOBA02 Tevatron End-of-Run Beam Physics Experiments 2128
 
  • A. Valishev
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • X. Gu, R. Miyamoto, S.M. White
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • J. Qiang
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • F. Schmidt
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Fermi Research Alliance, LLC operates Fermilab under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy. This work was partially supported by the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP).
Before the Tevatron collider Run II ended in September of 2011, a two-week period was devoted to the experiments on various aspects of beam-beam interactions. The studied topics included offset collisions, coherent beam stability, effect of the bunch-length-to-beta-function ratio, and operation of AC dipole with colliding beams. In this report we summarize the results of beam experiments and supporting simulations.
 
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WEEPPB014 The Magnetic Model of the LHC during the 3.5 TeV Run 2194
 
  • E. Todesco, N. Aquilina, M. Giovannozzi, M. Lamont, F. Schmidt, R.J. Steinhagen, M. Strzelczyk, R. Tomás
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • N.J. Sammut
    University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
 
  The magnetic model of the LHC is based on a fit of the magnetic measurements through equations that model the field components (geometric, saturation, persistent) at different currents. In this paper we will review the main results related to the magnetic model during the run of the LHC in 2010-2011: with a top energy of 3.5 TeV, all components of the model but the saturation are visible. We first give an estimate of the reproducibility of the main components and multipolar errors as they can be deduced from beam measurements, i.e. orbit, tune, chromaticity, beta beating and coupling. We then review the main results relative to the decay at injection plateau, dependence on powering history, and snapback at the beginning of the ramp for both tune and chromaticity. We discuss the precision obtained in tracking the magnets during the ramp, where the persistent current components gradually disappear. We conclude by presenting the behaviour of the quadrupoles model during the squeeze. A list of the major changes implemented during the operation together with what are considered as the main open issues is given.