Author: Giovannozzi, M.
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MOPWO026 Investigation of Numerical Precision Issues of Long Term Single Particle Tracking 942
 
  • E. McIntosh, R. De Maria, M. Giovannozzi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
Long term single particle simplectic tracking is one of the most reliable tool to study the dynamic aperture of the circular accelerators. The present computational performance allows to explore the long term behaviour for an extended number of turns. It is well known that for instance single precision floating point arithmetic introduces too much numerical noise even after a moderate number of turns. In this paper we explore the artefacts of the double precision arithmetic that may be visible when the number of turns is in the order of 106, 107.
 
 
MOPWO027 Improved TEAPOT Method and Tracking with Thick Quadrupoles for the LHC and its Upgrade 945
 
  • H. Burkhardt, R. De Maria, M. Giovannozzi, T. Risselada
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The comparison between tracking with thick and thin lens models for the LHC have been studied. A widely-used method to generate thin models is based on the TEAPOT slicing, which, in the original implementation is limited in the number of slices. In this paper an improved method is presented, which overcomes some of the limitations of the original TEAPOT. The performance is analysed and the impact on numerical simulation of the dynamic aperture is evaluated, both for the LHC and its upgrade, HL-LHC.  
 
MOPWO028 Recent Developments and Future Plans for SixTrack 948
 
  • R. De Maria, R. Bruce, R. Calaga, L. Deniau, M. Fjellstrom, M. Giovannozzi, L. Lari, Y.I. Levinsen, E. McIntosh, A. Mereghetti, D. Pastor Sinuela, S. Redaelli, H. Renshall, A. Rossi, F. Schmidt, R. Tomás, V. Vlachoudis
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • R. Appleby, D.R. Brett
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • D. Banfi, J. Barranco
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • B. Dalena
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • L. Lari
    IFIC, Valencia, Spain
  • V. Previtali
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • G. Robert-Demolaize
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
SixTrack is a symplectic 6D tracking code routinely used to simulate single particle trajectories in high energy circular machines like the LHC and RHIC. The paper presents the developments recently implemented and those foreseen for extending the physics models: exact Hamiltonian, different ions and charge states, RF multipoles, non-linear fringe fields, Taylor maps, e-lenses, ion scattering. Moreover new functionalities are also added like variable number of tracked particles, time dependent strengths, GPU computations with a refactoring of the core structure. The developments will benefit studies on the LHC and SPS, for collimation efficiency, ion operations, failure scenarios and HL-LHC design.
 
 
TUPFI016 Optimization of Triplet Quadrupoles Field Quality for the LHC High Luminosity Lattice at Collision Energy 1364
 
  • Y. Nosochkov, Y. Cai, M.-H. Wang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, E. McIntosh
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404; and by the US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
For the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC), the beta functions at two interaction points (IP) will be significantly reduced compared to the nominal LHC lattice. This will result in much higher peak beta functions in the inner triplet (IT) quadrupoles adjacent to these IPs. The consequences are a larger beam size in these quadrupoles, higher IT chromaticity, and stronger effects of the IT field errors on dynamic aperture (DA). The IT chromaticity will be compensated using the Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing scheme*. The increased IT beam size will be accommodated by installing large aperture Nb3Sn superconducting quadrupoles with 150 mm coil diameter. The field error tolerances in these magnets must satisfy the required acceptable DA while being reasonably close to realistically achievable field quality. Evaluation of the IT field errors was performed for the LHC upgrade layout version SLHCV3.01 with IT gradient of 123 T/m and IP collision beta functions of 15 cm in both planes. Dynamic aperture calculations were performed using SixTrack. Details of the optimization of the IT field errors are presented along with corrections to achieve the field quality specifications.
* S. Fartoukh, “An Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) Scheme for LHC Upgrade’’, in proceedings of IPAC11, p. 2088.
 
 
TUPFI017 Evaluation of Field Quality for Separation Dipoles and Matching Section Quadrupoles for the LHC High Luminosity Lattice at Collision Energy 1367
 
  • Y. Nosochkov, Y. Cai, M.-H. Wang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, E. McIntosh
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404; and by the US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The high luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) lattice requires new larger aperture magnets to be installed in the low-beta interaction regions (IRs). These include Nb3Sn superconducting (SC) triplet quadrupoles, Nb-Ti SC separation dipoles D1 and D2, and SC Q4 quadrupoles. The upgrade significantly reduces the beta functions at these IRs, producing higher beta functions and larger beam size in these magnets, and requiring a larger aperture. The high beta functions also increase the impact of high order field errors in these new magnets on dynamic aperture (DA). Therefore, to maintain an acceptable DA, new specifications for the magnet field quality are required. Since the IR error effects at collision are dominated by the triplets, their field quality has been studied and specified first*. As a next step, the field errors were added to the D1 and D2 dipoles and Q4 quadrupoles while maintaining the triplet errors to specifications. The impact of the errors on DA has been determined in long term tracking simulations using SixTrack. The optimized field error specifications for the D1, D2 and Q4 magnets are presented.
* Y. Nosochkov, Y. Cai, M-H. Wang, S. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, R. de Maria, E. McIntosh, “Optimization of Triplet Field Quality for the LHC High Luminosity Lattice at Collision Energy”, IPAC 2013.
 
 
TUPFI039 Optics Performance of the LHC During the 2012 Run 1433
 
  • P. Skowroński, T. Bach, M. Giovannozzi, A. Langner, Y.I. Levinsen, E.H. Maclean, T. Persson, S. Redaelli, T. Risselada, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, R. Tomás, G. Vanbavinckhove
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • M.J. McAteer
    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
  • R. Miyamoto
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  • T. Persson
    Chalmers University of Technology, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg, Sweden
 
  During 2012 the LHC was operating at 4TeV with beta star at ATLAS and CMS interaction points of 0.6m. During dedicated machine studies the nominal LHC optics was also setup with beta star of 0.4m. A huge effort was put into the optics commissioning leading to a record low peak beta-beating of around 7%. We describe the correction procedures and discuss the measurement results.  
 
TUPWO048 Understanding the Tune, Coupling, and Chromaticity Dependence of the LHC on Landau Octupole Powering 1976
 
  • E.H. Maclean, M. Giovannozzi, W. Herr, Y.I. Levinsen, G. Papotti, T. Persson, P. Skowroński, R. Tomás, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  During the 2012 LHC run there were several observations of unexpectedly large shifts to the tune, chromaticity, and coupling which were correlated with changes in the powering of Landau octupoles (MO). Understanding the chromaticity dependence is of particular importance given it's influence on instabilities. This paper summarizes the observations and our attempts to-date to understand the relationship between Q, Q', c- and the MO powering.  
 
WEPEA045 Specifications of the Field Quality at Injection Energy of the New Magnets for the HL-LHC Upgrade Project 2603
 
  • R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
The HL-LHC project relies on new magnet designs and technologies to achieve very small β* values. In particular, Nb3Sn magnets show large allowed multipole imperfections at low current. These field errors may have a non-negligible impact on the dynamic aperture and beam life time in the HL-LHC, also because of the smaller-than-nominal β* values foreseen IR1 and IR5 at injection energy, which aims at decreasing the dynamic range of the squeeze and therefore contributing to optimize the turn around time. The paper describes an analysis of the machine performance based on analytical estimates and tracking simulations with the goal of providing field quality specifications for the new magnets.
 
 
WEPEA046 Experimental Observations from the LHC Dynamic Aperture Machine Development Study in 2012 2606
 
  • M. Giovannozzi, S. Cettour Cave, R. De Maria, M. Ludwig, A. Macpherson, S. Redaelli, F. Roncarolo, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, W. Venturini Delsolaro
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  In view of improving the understanding of the behaviour of the dynamic aperture and to benchmark the numerical simulations performed so far, two experimental sessions have been scheduled at the LHC. The observations of the first sessions have been reported elsewhere[1], while in this paper the latest observations in terms of beam currents, blm losses and beam sizes will be described. The octupolar spool pieces have been used to artificially reduce the dynamic aperture and then induced slow beam losses. Alternating signs have been used in order to probe different configurations. Finally, scans over the strength of the decapolar spool pieces have been performed too.
[1] M. Giovannozzi et al., “First Experimental Observations from the LHC Dynamic Aperture Experiment”, in proceedings of IPAC12, p. 1362
 
 
WEPEA047 Dynamic Aperture Performance for Different Collision Optics Scenarios for the LHC Luminosity Upgrade 2609
 
  • M. Giovannozzi, R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • A. Chancé, B. Dalena, J. Payet
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • K.M. Hock, M. Korostelev, A. Wolski
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • J. Resta-López
    IFIC, Valencia, Spain
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
The ATS[1] optics solution for the HL-LHC offers the possibility of different collision optics, with a β* as small as 10 cm in both transverse planes, or with a β* aspect ratio of up to 4 pushing β* to even smaller value (5cm) in the parallel separation plane while relaxing it (20 cm) in the crossing plane. The latter configuration features two possible options for alternated orientations of the crossing plane in the two high luminosity insertions, both considered in this study. In this paper we study the impact of few selected field imperfection models of the new magnets foreseen for the upgrade through tracking simulations and scaling laws.
[1] S. Fartoukh, ‘’An Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) Scheme for LHC Upgrade’’, in proceedings of IPAC11, p. 2088.
 
 
WEPEA048 Specification of a System of Correctors for the Triplets and Separation Dipoles of the LHC Upgrade 2612
 
  • M. Giovannozzi, R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
The luminosity upgrade of the LHC aims at reducing β* from 55 cm to 15 cm or beyond. This can be achieved by the ATS* scheme and means of new large aperture superconducting triplet (IT) quadrupoles (150 mm), preferably using the Nb3Sn technology in order to keep the gradient reasonably high (140 T/m). The field quality requires careful specification in order to ensure a large enough dynamic aperture. In this context, dedicated corrector magnets are foreseen to provide semi-local corrections of specific multipole components and find the best possible compromise between the demand and what can be realistically achieved by the magnet manufacturer. In this paper the layout and main parameters of the IT corrector package are presented together with the correction strategy. Moreover, the foreseen performance is discussed in detail.
* S. Fartoukh, ‘’An Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) Scheme for LHC Upgrade’’, in proceedings of IPAC11, p. 2088.
 
 
WEPEA049 Analysis of the Non-linear Fringe Effects of Large Aperture Triplets for the HL LHC Project 2615
 
  • A.V. Bogomyagkov, E.B. Levichev, P.A. Piminov
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • A. Chancé, B. Dalena, J. Payet
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
The HL-LHC project relies on large aperture quadrupoles which are compatible with the very large beam sizes in the inner triplets resulting from the strong reduction of β*. As a result the beam is much more sensitive to non-linear perturbations in this region, such as those induced by the fringe fields of the low-beta quadrupoles. The spatial extension of these fringe fields increases as well more or less linearly with the coil aperture, which is an additional motivation to analyse this aspect in detail in the framework of the High Luminosity LHC design study. This paper will quantify this effect both by direct analytical estimates using first order Hamiltonian perturbation theory, and via numerical studies thanks to the dedicated implementation of a fringe field symplectic integrator in SixTrack.
 
 
WEPEA050 Analysis of Possible Functional Forms of the Scaling Law for Dynamic Aperture as a Function of Time 2618
 
  • M. Giovannozzi, R. De Maria, F. Lang
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
In recent studies, the evolution of the dynamic aperture with time has been fitted with a simple scaling law based on a limited number of free parameters. In this paper, different approaches to improve the numerical stability of the fit are presented, together with a new functional form. The results are discussed in details and applied to a set of numerical simulations for the LHC.
 
 
WEPEA054 CERN PS Optical Properties Measured with Turn-by-turn Orbit Data 2627
 
  • C. Hernalsteens, T. Bach, S.S. Gilardoni, M. Giovannozzi, A. Lachaize, G. Sterbini, R. Tomás, R. Wasef
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The performance of the PS has been constantly increasing over the years both in terms of beam parameters (intensity and brightness) and beam manipulations (transverse and longitudinal splitting). This implies a very good knowledge of the linear and non-linear model of the ring. In this paper we report on a detailed campaign of beam measurements based on turn-by-turn orbit data aimed at measuring the optics in several conditions as well as the resonance driving terms. The goal of this study is to assess whether any specific correction system should be envisaged to achieve the required future performance.  
 
WEPEA055 Quantitative Evaluation of Trapping and Overall Efficiency for Simple Models in One-degree of Freedom 2630
 
  • C. Hernalsteens, C. Frye, M. Giovannozzi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • A. Bazzani
    Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
 
  A key ingredient for the Multi-Turn Extraction at the CERN Proton Synchrotron is the beam trapping in stable islands of transverse phase space. The control of the trapping process is essential for the quality of the final beam in terms of intensity sharing and emittance. In this paper, a method allowing an analytical estimation of the fraction of beam trapped into stable islands as a function of the Hamiltonian parameters is presented for a very simple model of the dynamics (pendulum) and is extended to the case of the interpolating Hamiltonian of the Hénon model, the latter being a good 2D model of the MTE dynamics. The analytical results are compared with numerical simulations. Additional numerical simulations are presented for the minimum trapping amplitude and a fitted model is proposed. Results are discussed in detail.  
 
WEPEA056 Design and Beam Measurements of Modified Fast Extraction Schemes in the CERN PS for Installing a Dummy Septum to Mitigate Ring Irradiation 2633
 
  • C. Hernalsteens, H. Bartosik, L.N. Drøsdal, S.S. Gilardoni, M. Giovannozzi, A. Lachaize, Y. Papaphilippou, A. Ulsroed
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The proposed Multi-Turn Extraction (MTE) for the CERN PS allows to reduce the overall extraction losses for high intensity beams. The required longitudinal structure of the proton beam induces unavoidable beam losses at the magnetic extraction septum. The installation of a dummy septum with an appropriate shielding has been proposed to localise losses and to shadow the magnetic septum. Such a device, located in the extraction region, imposes tight constraints on the available beam aperture. Modified extraction schemes have been proposed and in this paper they will be presented and discussed in detail together with the measured performance.  
 
WEPEA057 Numerical Simulations to Evaluate the Performance of CERN PS Dummy Septum to Reduce Irradiation for the Multi-Turn Extraction 2636
 
  • C. Hernalsteens, S. Damjanovic, S.S. Gilardoni, M. Giovannozzi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The losses created by the proposed Multi-Turn Extraction (MTE) at the CERN PS induces high activation of the magnetic extraction septum due to the de-bunched longitudinal beam structure requested to transfer the beam to the SPS. A mitigation measure is under study aiming at localizing losses in a well-shielded area by shadowing the magnetic extraction septum thanks to septum-like passive device. Such a solution is based on a so-called dummy septum, a blade which absorbs particles during the rise time of the extraction kickers for MTE beams. The efficiency of the scheme is presented in this paper. The quantitative estimate is based on detailed simulations that analyse the beam-matter interaction and provide a determination of the shadowing effect of the dummy septum.