Author: Venturini Delsolaro, W.
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MOOBA02 Status and Future Perspectives of the HIE-ISOLDE Project at CERN 34
 
  • Y. Kadi, A.P. Bernardes, Y. Blumenfeld, S. Calatroni, R. Catherall, M.A. Fraser, B. Goddard, D. Parchet, E. Siesling, W. Venturini Delsolaro, D. Voulot, L.R. Williams
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The High Intensity and Energy (HIE)-ISOLDE project aims at several important upgrades of the present ISOLDE radioactive beam facility at CERN. The main focus lies in the energy upgrade of the post-accelerated radionuclide beams from 3 MeV/u up to 10 MeV/u through the addition of superconducting cavities. This will open the possibility of many new types of experiments including transfer reactions throughout the nuclear chart. The first stage of this upgrade involves the design, construction, installation and commissioning of two high-β cryomodules downstream of REX-ISOLDE, the existing post-accelerator. Each cryomodule houses five high-β sc cavities and one sc solenoid. Prototypes of the Nb-sputtered Quarter Wave Resonators (QWRs) cavities for the new superconducting linear accelerator have been manufactured and are undergoing RF cold tests. The project also includes a design study of improved production targets to accommodate the future increase of proton intensity delivered by the new LINAC4 proton driver. The project has been approved by CERN and its implementation started in January 2010. An overview of the project and the timeline will be presented.  
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TUPPC081 First Experimental Observations from the LHC Dynamic Aperture Experiment 1362
 
  • M. Giovannozzi, M. Albert, G.E. Crockford, S.D. Fartoukh, W. Höfle, E.H. Maclean, A. Macpherson, L. Ponce, S. Redaelli, H. Renshall, F. Roncarolo, R.J. Steinhagen, E. Todesco, R. Tomás, W. Venturini Delsolaro
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • R. Miyamoto
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Following intensive numerical simulations to compute the dynamic aperture for the LHC in the design phase, the successful beam commissioning and the ensuing beam operations opened the possibility of performing beam measurements of the dynamics aperture. In this paper the experimental set-up and the first observations based on the few experimental sessions performed will be presented and discussed in detail.  
 
THPPP018 Operation of the LHC at High Luminosity and High Stored Energy 3767
 
  • J. Wenninger, R. Alemany-Fernandez, G. Arduini, R.W. Assmann, B.J. Holzer, E.B. Holzer, V. Kain, M. Lamont, A. Macpherson, G. Papotti, M. Pojer, L. Ponce, S. Redaelli, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, J.A. Uythoven, W. Venturini Delsolaro
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  In 2011 the operation of the Large Hadron Collider LHC entered its first year of high luminosity production at a beam energy of 3.5 TeV. In the first months of 2011 the number of bunches was progressively increased to 1380, followed by a reduction of the transverse emittance, an increase of the bunch population and a reduction of the betatron function at the collision points. The performance improvements steps that were accumulated in 2011 eventually brought the peak luminosity to 3.6·1033 cm-2s−1. The integrated luminosity delivered to each of the high luminosity experiments amounted to 5.6 fb-1, a factor of 5 above the initial target defined in 2010. The operational experience with high intensity and high luminosity at the LHC will be presented here, together with the issues that had to be tackled on the road to high intensity and luminosity.