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MOAC1	Awake: the Proof-of-principle R&D Experiment at CERN	34
	P. Muggli MPI, Muenchen, Germany M. Bernardini, T. Bohl, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, S. Cipiccia, H. Damerau, S. Döbert, V. Fedosseev, E. Feldbaumer, E. Gschwendtner, W. Höfle, A. Pardons, A.V. Petrenko, J.S. Schmidt, M. Turner, H. Vincke CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is a proof-of-principle R&D experiment at CERN. It is the world’s first proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment, using a high-energy proton bunch to drive a plasma wakefield for electron beam acceleration. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the former CNGS facility and uses the 400 GeV proton beam bunches from the SPS, which will be sent to a plasma source. An electron beam will be injected into the plasma cell to probe the accelerating wakefield. Challenging modifications in the area and new installations are required for AWAKE. First proton beam to the experiment is expected late 2016. The accelerating electron physics will start late 2017. This paper gives an overview of the project from a physics and engineering point of view, it describes the main activities, the milestones, the organizational set-up for the project management and coordination.
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TUPTY039	LHC Transfer Lines and Injection Tests for Run 2	2098
	C. Bracco, J.L. Abelleira, R. Alemany-Fernández, M.J. Barnes, W. Bartmann, E. Carlier, L.N. Drøsdal, M.A. Fraser, K. Fuchsberger, B. Goddard, J. Jentzsch, V. Kain, N. Magnin, M. Meddahi, J.S. Schmidt, L.S. Stoel, J.A. Uythoven, F.M. Velotti, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The transfer lines for both rings of the LHC were successfully re-commissioned with beam in preparation for the start-up of Run 2. This paper presents an overview of the transfer line and sector tests performed to bring the LHC back into operation after a two-year period of shutdown for consolidation and upgrade. The tests enabled the debugging of critical software and hardware systems and validated changes made to the transfer and injection systems. The beam-based measurements carried out to validate the optics and machine configuration are summarised along with the performance of the hardware systems.
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TUPTY048	Changes to the Transfer Line Collimation System for the High-Luminosity LHC Beams	2124
	V. Kain, O. Aberle, C. Bracco, M.A. Fraser, F. Galleazzi, A. Kosmicki, F.L. Maciariello, M. Meddahi, F.-X. Nuiry, G.E. Steele, F.M. Velotti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland E. Gianfelice-Wendt Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	The current LHC transfer line collimation system will not be able to provide enough protection for the high brightness beams in the high-luminosity LHC era. The new collimation system will have to attenuate more and be more robust than its predecessor. The active jaw length of the new transfer line collimators will therefore be 2.1 m instead of currently 1.2 m. The transfer line optics will have to be adjusted for the new collimator locations and larger beta functions at the collimators for absorber robustness reasons. In this paper the new design of the transfer line collimation system will be presented with its implications on transfer line optics and powering, maintainability, protection of transfer line magnets in case of beam loss on a collimator and protection of the LHC aperture
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TUPTY049	Protection of Superconducting Magnets in Case of Accidental Beam Losses during HL-LHC Injection	2128
	A. Lechner, M.J. Barnes, C. Bracco, B. Goddard, F.L. Maciariello, A. Perillo Marcone, N.V. Shetty, G.E. Steele, J.A. Uythoven, F.M. Velotti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland F.M. Velotti EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
	Funding: Research supported by the High Luminosity LHC project. The LHC injection regions accommodate a system of beam-intercepting devices which protect superconducting magnets and other accelerator components in case of mis-steered injected beam or accidentally kicked stored beam, e.g. due to injection kicker or timing malfunctions. The brightness and intensity increase required by the High Luminosity (HL) upgrade of the LHC necessitates a redesign of some devices to improve their robustness and to reduce the leakage of secondary particle showers to downstream magnets. In this paper, we review possible failure scenarios and we quantify the energy deposition in superconducting coils by means of FLUKA shower calculations. Conceptual design studies for the new protection system are presented, with the main focus on the primary injection protection absorber (TDI) and the adjacent mask (TCDD).
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TUPTY051	Injection Protection Upgrade for the HL-LHC	2136
	J.A. Uythoven, N. Biancacci, C. Bracco, L. Gentini, B. Goddard, A. Lechner, F.L. Maciariello, A. Perillo Marcone, B. Salvant, N.V. Shetty, G.E. Steele, F.M. Velotti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland O. Frasciello, M. Zobov INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	The injector complex of the LHC is undergoing important changes in the light of the LIU project to provide brighter beams to the LHC. For this reason and as part of the High Luminosity LHC project the injection protection system of the LHC will be upgraded in the Long Shutdown 2 (2018 - 2019) to be able to protect downstream elements against injection failures with the high brightness, high intensity HL-LHC beams. The upgraded LHC injection protection system will consist of a segmented injection protection absorber TDIS, and auxiliary collimators and masks. The layout modifications are described, and the machine element protection and absorber jaw robustness studies are presented for the new systems.
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WEPWA003	Simulations of Electron-Proton Beam Interaction before Plasma in the AWAKE Experiment	2492
	U. Dorda, R.W. Aßmann, J. Grebenyuk DESY, Hamburg, Germany C. Bracco, A.V. Petrenko, J.S. Schmidt CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The on-axis injection of electron bunches in the proton-driven plasma wake at the AWAKE experiment at CERN implies co-propagation of a low-energy electron beam with the long high-energy proton beam in a common beam pipe over several meters upstream of the plasma chamber. The possible effects of the proton-induced wakefields on the electron bunch phase space in the common beam pipe region may have crucial implications for subsequent electron trapping and acceleration in plasma. We present the CST Studio simulations of the tentative common beam pipe setup and the two beam co-propagating in it. Simulated effects of the proton wakefields on electrons are analysed and compared to analytical predictions.
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WEPWA039	The AWAKE Electron Primary Beam Line	2584
	J.S. Schmidt, J. Bauche, B. Biskup, C. Bracco, E. Bravin, S. Döbert, M.A. Fraser, B. Goddard, E. Gschwendtner, L.K. Jensen, O.R. Jones, S. Mazzoni, M. Meddahi, A.V. Petrenko, F.M. Velotti, A.S. Vorozhtsov CERN, Geneva, Switzerland U. Dorda DESY, Hamburg, Germany L. Merminga, V.A. Verzilov TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada P. Muggli MPI, Muenchen, Germany
	The AWAKE project at CERN is planned to study proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration. The proton beam from the SPS will be used in order to drive wakefields in a 10 m long Rb plasma cell. In the first phase of this experiment, scheduled in 2016, the self-modulation of the proton beam in the plasma will be studied in detail, while in the second phase an external electron beam will be injected into the plasma wakefield to probe the acceleration process. The installation of AWAKE in the former CNGS experimental area and the required optics flexibility define the tight boundary conditions to be fulfilled by the electron beam line design. The transport of low energy (10-20 MeV) bunches of 1.25·10⁹ electrons and the synchronous copropagation with much higher intensity proton bunches (3E11) determines several technological and operational challenges for the magnets and the beam diagnostics. The current status of the electron line layout and the associated equipments are presented in this paper.
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WEPMN067	Upgrade of the TCDQ Diluters for the LHC Beam Dump System	3079
	M.G. Atanasov, W. Bartmann, J. Borburgh, C. Boucly, C. Bracco, L. Gentini, B. Moles, W.J.M. Weterings CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The TCDQ diluters are installed as part of the LHC beam dump system to protect the Q4 quadrupole and other downstream elements during a beam dump that is not synchronised with the abort gap, or in case of erratic firing of the extraction kickers. These diluter elements installed during Run 1 were compatible with beam up to 60 % of the nominal intensity, which was insufficient for the second run of the LHC. This paper describes the requirements for the upgrade done during the First Long Shutdown (LS1), to make the TCDQ compatible with the full 7 TeV LHC beam at intensities required for the future runs of the machine. Subsequently the mechanical design changes, implementation and commissioning of the TCDQ are reported.
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THPF083	Painting Schemes for CERN PS Booster H⁻ Injection	3879
	J.L. Abelleira, W. Bartmann, E. Benedetto, C. Bracco, G.P. Di Giovanni, V. Forte, M. Kowalska, M. Meddahi, B. Mikulec, G. Rumolo CERN, Geneva, Switzerland V. Forte Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France M. Kowalska EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
	The present 50-MeV proton injection into the PS Booster will be replaced by a H⁻ charge exchange injection at 160 MeV to be provided by Linac 4. The higher energy will allow producing beams at higher brightness. A set of kicker magnets (KSW) will move the beam across the stripping foil to perform phase space painting in the horizontal plane to reduce space charge effects. The PSB must satisfy the different users with very different beams in terms of emittance and intensity. Therefore, the KSW waveforms must be adapted for each case to meet the beam characteristics while minimizing beam losses. Here we present the results of the simulations performed to optimise the injection system. A detailed analysis of the different painting schemes is discussed, including the effect of the working point on the painted beam, and variations in the offset of the injected beam.
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THPF086	A New Hardware Design for PSB Kicker Magnets (KSW) for the 35 mm Transverse Painting in the Horizontal Plane	3890
	L.M.C. Feliciano, C. Bracco, L. Ducimetière, T. Fowler, G. Gräwer, R. Noulibos, L. Sermeus, W.J.M. Weterings, C. Zannini CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The changeover from Linac2 to Linac4 in CERN’s injector chain will allow increasing the injection energy into the PS Booster from 50 MeV to 160 MeV. Transverse phase space painting will be performed in the horizontal plane, by means of four stacks of four KSW kicker magnets. The KSW magnets are located outside the injection region and will produce a 35 mm closed orbit bump, with falling amplitude during the injection to accomplish transverse phase space painting to the required emittance. New magnets with two different types of coils are being built using the existing design. The magnets are made of two halves, which are assembled together around a vacuum ceramic chamber. In order to reduce the beam impedance, the ceramic chamber is internally coated by a thin titanium layer. A new multiple-linear waveform generator has been developed to provide the high flexibility in the KSW kicker magnets current decay to fulfil the requirements of all the different users (LHC, nTOF, ISOLDE, CNGS, etc.).
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THPF088	CERN PS Booster Upgrade and LHC Beams Emittance	3897
	E. Benedetto, J.L. Abelleira, C. Bracco, V. Forte, B. Mikulec, G. Rumolo CERN, Geneva, Switzerland V. Forte Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
	By increasing the CERN PS Booster injection energy from 50 MeV to 160 MeV, the LHC Injector Upgrade Project aims at producing twice as brighter beams for the LHC. Previous measurements showed a linear dependence of the transverse emittance with the beam intensity and space-charge simulations confirmed the linear scaling. This paper is discussing in detail the dependence on the longitudinal emittance and on the choice of the working point, with a special attention to the H⁻ injection process and to the beam dynamics in the first 5 ms, during the fall of the injection chicane bump.
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THPF090	Status and Plans for the Upgrade of the CERN PS Booster	3905
	K. Hanke, D. Aguglia, M.E. Angoletta, W. Bartmann, C. Bedel, E. Benedetto, S. Bertolasi, C. Bertone, J. Betz, T.W. Birtwistle, A. Blas, J. Borburgh, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, E. Carlier, S. Chemli, P. Dahlen, A. Dallocchio, G.P. Di Giovanni, T. Dobers, A. Findlay, R. Froeschl, A. Funken, S. Gabourin, J.L. Grenard, D. Grenier, J. Hansen, D. Hay, J.-M. Lacroix, P. Le Roux, L.A. Lopez Hernandez, C. Martin, A. Masi, B. Mikulec, Y. Muttoni, A. Newborough, D. Nisbet, M.R. Obrecht, M.M. Paoluzzi, S. Pittet, B. Puccio, J. Tan, J. Vollaire, W.J.M. Weterings CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	CERN’s Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) is undergoing a major upgrade program in the frame of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project. During the first long LHC shutdown (LS1) some parts of the upgrade have already been implemented, and the machine has been successfully re-commissioned. More work is planned for the upcoming end-of-year technical stops, notably in 2016/17, while most of the upgrade is planned to take place during the second long LHC shutdown (LS2). We report on the upgrade items already completed and commissioned, the first Run 2 beam performance and give a status of the ongoing design and integration work.
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THPF097	Feasibility Study of a New SPS Beam Dump System	3930
	F.M. Velotti, J.L. Abelleira, M.J. Barnes, C. Bracco, E. Carlier, F. Cerutti, K. Cornelis, R. Folch, B. Goddard, V. Kain, M. Meddahi, R.F. Morton, J.A. Osborne, F. Pasdeloup, V. Senaj, G.E. Steele, J.A. Uythoven, H. Vincke CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) presently uses an internal beam dump system with two separate blocks to cleanly dispose of low and high energy beams. In view of the increased beam power and brightness needed for the LHC Injector Upgrade project for High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the performance of this internal beam dump system has been reviewed for future operation. Different possible upgrades of the beam dumping system have been investigated. The initially considered solution for the SPS Beam Dump System is to design a new, dedicated external system, with a dump block in a shielded cavern separated from the machine ring. Unfortunately this solution is not feasible with the present technology. In this paper, the design requirements and the possible solutions are investigated, including considering a new internal beam dump in the Long Straight Section 5 (LSS5).
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THPF098	SPS-to-LHC Transfer Lines Loss Map Generation Using PyCollimate	3934
	F.M. Velotti EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland W. Bartmann, C. Bracco, M.A. Fraser, B. Goddard, V. Kain, M. Meddahi, F.M. Velotti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Transfer Lines (TL) linking the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are both equipped with a complete collimation system to protect the LHC against mis-steered beams. During the setting up of these collimators, their gaps are positioned to nominal values and the phase-space coverage of the whole system is checked using a manual validation procedure. In order to perform this setting-up more efficiently and more reliably, the simulated loss maps of the TLs will be used to validate the collimator positions and settings. In this paper, the simulation procedure for the generation of TL loss maps is described, and a detailed overview of the new scattering routine (pycollimate) is given. Finally, the results of simulations benchmark with another scattering routine are presented.
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Awake: the Proof-of-principle R&D Experiment at CERN

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P. Muggli
MPI, Muenchen, Germany
M. Bernardini, T. Bohl, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, S. Cipiccia, H. Damerau, S. Döbert, V. Fedosseev, E. Feldbaumer, E. Gschwendtner, W. Höfle, A. Pardons, A.V. Petrenko, J.S. Schmidt, M. Turner, H. Vincke
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is a proof-of-principle R&D experiment at CERN. It is the world’s first proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment, using a high-energy proton bunch to drive a plasma wakefield for electron beam acceleration. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the former CNGS facility and uses the 400 GeV proton beam bunches from the SPS, which will be sent to a plasma source. An electron beam will be injected into the plasma cell to probe the accelerating wakefield. Challenging modifications in the area and new installations are required for AWAKE. First proton beam to the experiment is expected late 2016. The accelerating electron physics will start late 2017. This paper gives an overview of the project from a physics and engineering point of view, it describes the main activities, the milestones, the organizational set-up for the project management and coordination.

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TUPTY039

LHC Transfer Lines and Injection Tests for Run 2

2098

C. Bracco, J.L. Abelleira, R. Alemany-Fernández, M.J. Barnes, W. Bartmann, E. Carlier, L.N. Drøsdal, M.A. Fraser, K. Fuchsberger, B. Goddard, J. Jentzsch, V. Kain, N. Magnin, M. Meddahi, J.S. Schmidt, L.S. Stoel, J.A. Uythoven, F.M. Velotti, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The transfer lines for both rings of the LHC were successfully re-commissioned with beam in preparation for the start-up of Run 2. This paper presents an overview of the transfer line and sector tests performed to bring the LHC back into operation after a two-year period of shutdown for consolidation and upgrade. The tests enabled the debugging of critical software and hardware systems and validated changes made to the transfer and injection systems. The beam-based measurements carried out to validate the optics and machine configuration are summarised along with the performance of the hardware systems.

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TUPTY048

Changes to the Transfer Line Collimation System for the High-Luminosity LHC Beams

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V. Kain, O. Aberle, C. Bracco, M.A. Fraser, F. Galleazzi, A. Kosmicki, F.L. Maciariello, M. Meddahi, F.-X. Nuiry, G.E. Steele, F.M. Velotti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
E. Gianfelice-Wendt
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

The current LHC transfer line collimation system will not be able to provide enough protection for the high brightness beams in the high-luminosity LHC era. The new collimation system will have to attenuate more and be more robust than its predecessor. The active jaw length of the new transfer line collimators will therefore be 2.1 m instead of currently 1.2 m. The transfer line optics will have to be adjusted for the new collimator locations and larger beta functions at the collimators for absorber robustness reasons. In this paper the new design of the transfer line collimation system will be presented with its implications on transfer line optics and powering, maintainability, protection of transfer line magnets in case of beam loss on a collimator and protection of the LHC aperture

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TUPTY049

Protection of Superconducting Magnets in Case of Accidental Beam Losses during HL-LHC Injection

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A. Lechner, M.J. Barnes, C. Bracco, B. Goddard, F.L. Maciariello, A. Perillo Marcone, N.V. Shetty, G.E. Steele, J.A. Uythoven, F.M. Velotti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
F.M. Velotti
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Funding: Research supported by the High Luminosity LHC project.
The LHC injection regions accommodate a system of beam-intercepting devices which protect superconducting magnets and other accelerator components in case of mis-steered injected beam or accidentally kicked stored beam, e.g. due to injection kicker or timing malfunctions. The brightness and intensity increase required by the High Luminosity (HL) upgrade of the LHC necessitates a redesign of some devices to improve their robustness and to reduce the leakage of secondary particle showers to downstream magnets. In this paper, we review possible failure scenarios and we quantify the energy deposition in superconducting coils by means of FLUKA shower calculations. Conceptual design studies for the new protection system are presented, with the main focus on the primary injection protection absorber (TDI) and the adjacent mask (TCDD).

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TUPTY051

Injection Protection Upgrade for the HL-LHC

2136

J.A. Uythoven, N. Biancacci, C. Bracco, L. Gentini, B. Goddard, A. Lechner, F.L. Maciariello, A. Perillo Marcone, B. Salvant, N.V. Shetty, G.E. Steele, F.M. Velotti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
O. Frasciello, M. Zobov
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy

The injector complex of the LHC is undergoing important changes in the light of the LIU project to provide brighter beams to the LHC. For this reason and as part of the High Luminosity LHC project the injection protection system of the LHC will be upgraded in the Long Shutdown 2 (2018 - 2019) to be able to protect downstream elements against injection failures with the high brightness, high intensity HL-LHC beams. The upgraded LHC injection protection system will consist of a segmented injection protection absorber TDIS, and auxiliary collimators and masks. The layout modifications are described, and the machine element protection and absorber jaw robustness studies are presented for the new systems.

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WEPWA003

Simulations of Electron-Proton Beam Interaction before Plasma in the AWAKE Experiment

2492

U. Dorda, R.W. Aßmann, J. Grebenyuk
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
C. Bracco, A.V. Petrenko, J.S. Schmidt
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The on-axis injection of electron bunches in the proton-driven plasma wake at the AWAKE experiment at CERN implies co-propagation of a low-energy electron beam with the long high-energy proton beam in a common beam pipe over several meters upstream of the plasma chamber. The possible effects of the proton-induced wakefields on the electron bunch phase space in the common beam pipe region may have crucial implications for subsequent electron trapping and acceleration in plasma. We present the CST Studio simulations of the tentative common beam pipe setup and the two beam co-propagating in it. Simulated effects of the proton wakefields on electrons are analysed and compared to analytical predictions.

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WEPWA039

The AWAKE Electron Primary Beam Line

2584

J.S. Schmidt, J. Bauche, B. Biskup, C. Bracco, E. Bravin, S. Döbert, M.A. Fraser, B. Goddard, E. Gschwendtner, L.K. Jensen, O.R. Jones, S. Mazzoni, M. Meddahi, A.V. Petrenko, F.M. Velotti, A.S. Vorozhtsov
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
U. Dorda
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
L. Merminga, V.A. Verzilov
TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
P. Muggli
MPI, Muenchen, Germany

The AWAKE project at CERN is planned to study proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration. The proton beam from the SPS will be used in order to drive wakefields in a 10 m long Rb plasma cell. In the first phase of this experiment, scheduled in 2016, the self-modulation of the proton beam in the plasma will be studied in detail, while in the second phase an external electron beam will be injected into the plasma wakefield to probe the acceleration process. The installation of AWAKE in the former CNGS experimental area and the required optics flexibility define the tight boundary conditions to be fulfilled by the electron beam line design. The transport of low energy (10-20 MeV) bunches of 1.25·10⁹ electrons and the synchronous copropagation with much higher intensity proton bunches (3E11) determines several technological and operational challenges for the magnets and the beam diagnostics. The current status of the electron line layout and the associated equipments are presented in this paper.

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WEPMN067

Upgrade of the TCDQ Diluters for the LHC Beam Dump System

3079

M.G. Atanasov, W. Bartmann, J. Borburgh, C. Boucly, C. Bracco, L. Gentini, B. Moles, W.J.M. Weterings
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The TCDQ diluters are installed as part of the LHC beam dump system to protect the Q4 quadrupole and other downstream elements during a beam dump that is not synchronised with the abort gap, or in case of erratic firing of the extraction kickers. These diluter elements installed during Run 1 were compatible with beam up to 60 % of the nominal intensity, which was insufficient for the second run of the LHC. This paper describes the requirements for the upgrade done during the First Long Shutdown (LS1), to make the TCDQ compatible with the full 7 TeV LHC beam at intensities required for the future runs of the machine. Subsequently the mechanical design changes, implementation and commissioning of the TCDQ are reported.

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THPF083

Painting Schemes for CERN PS Booster H⁻ Injection

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J.L. Abelleira, W. Bartmann, E. Benedetto, C. Bracco, G.P. Di Giovanni, V. Forte, M. Kowalska, M. Meddahi, B. Mikulec, G. Rumolo
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
V. Forte
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
M. Kowalska
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

The present 50-MeV proton injection into the PS Booster will be replaced by a H⁻ charge exchange injection at 160 MeV to be provided by Linac 4. The higher energy will allow producing beams at higher brightness. A set of kicker magnets (KSW) will move the beam across the stripping foil to perform phase space painting in the horizontal plane to reduce space charge effects. The PSB must satisfy the different users with very different beams in terms of emittance and intensity. Therefore, the KSW waveforms must be adapted for each case to meet the beam characteristics while minimizing beam losses. Here we present the results of the simulations performed to optimise the injection system. A detailed analysis of the different painting schemes is discussed, including the effect of the working point on the painted beam, and variations in the offset of the injected beam.

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THPF086

A New Hardware Design for PSB Kicker Magnets (KSW) for the 35 mm Transverse Painting in the Horizontal Plane

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L.M.C. Feliciano, C. Bracco, L. Ducimetière, T. Fowler, G. Gräwer, R. Noulibos, L. Sermeus, W.J.M. Weterings, C. Zannini
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The changeover from Linac2 to Linac4 in CERN’s injector chain will allow increasing the injection energy into the PS Booster from 50 MeV to 160 MeV. Transverse phase space painting will be performed in the horizontal plane, by means of four stacks of four KSW kicker magnets. The KSW magnets are located outside the injection region and will produce a 35 mm closed orbit bump, with falling amplitude during the injection to accomplish transverse phase space painting to the required emittance. New magnets with two different types of coils are being built using the existing design. The magnets are made of two halves, which are assembled together around a vacuum ceramic chamber. In order to reduce the beam impedance, the ceramic chamber is internally coated by a thin titanium layer. A new multiple-linear waveform generator has been developed to provide the high flexibility in the KSW kicker magnets current decay to fulfil the requirements of all the different users (LHC, nTOF, ISOLDE, CNGS, etc.).

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THPF088

CERN PS Booster Upgrade and LHC Beams Emittance

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E. Benedetto, J.L. Abelleira, C. Bracco, V. Forte, B. Mikulec, G. Rumolo
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
V. Forte
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

By increasing the CERN PS Booster injection energy from 50 MeV to 160 MeV, the LHC Injector Upgrade Project aims at producing twice as brighter beams for the LHC. Previous measurements showed a linear dependence of the transverse emittance with the beam intensity and space-charge simulations confirmed the linear scaling. This paper is discussing in detail the dependence on the longitudinal emittance and on the choice of the working point, with a special attention to the H⁻ injection process and to the beam dynamics in the first 5 ms, during the fall of the injection chicane bump.

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THPF090

Status and Plans for the Upgrade of the CERN PS Booster

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K. Hanke, D. Aguglia, M.E. Angoletta, W. Bartmann, C. Bedel, E. Benedetto, S. Bertolasi, C. Bertone, J. Betz, T.W. Birtwistle, A. Blas, J. Borburgh, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, E. Carlier, S. Chemli, P. Dahlen, A. Dallocchio, G.P. Di Giovanni, T. Dobers, A. Findlay, R. Froeschl, A. Funken, S. Gabourin, J.L. Grenard, D. Grenier, J. Hansen, D. Hay, J.-M. Lacroix, P. Le Roux, L.A. Lopez Hernandez, C. Martin, A. Masi, B. Mikulec, Y. Muttoni, A. Newborough, D. Nisbet, M.R. Obrecht, M.M. Paoluzzi, S. Pittet, B. Puccio, J. Tan, J. Vollaire, W.J.M. Weterings
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

CERN’s Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) is undergoing a major upgrade program in the frame of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project. During the first long LHC shutdown (LS1) some parts of the upgrade have already been implemented, and the machine has been successfully re-commissioned. More work is planned for the upcoming end-of-year technical stops, notably in 2016/17, while most of the upgrade is planned to take place during the second long LHC shutdown (LS2). We report on the upgrade items already completed and commissioned, the first Run 2 beam performance and give a status of the ongoing design and integration work.

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THPF097

Feasibility Study of a New SPS Beam Dump System

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F.M. Velotti, J.L. Abelleira, M.J. Barnes, C. Bracco, E. Carlier, F. Cerutti, K. Cornelis, R. Folch, B. Goddard, V. Kain, M. Meddahi, R.F. Morton, J.A. Osborne, F. Pasdeloup, V. Senaj, G.E. Steele, J.A. Uythoven, H. Vincke
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) presently uses an internal beam dump system with two separate blocks to cleanly dispose of low and high energy beams. In view of the increased beam power and brightness needed for the LHC Injector Upgrade project for High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the performance of this internal beam dump system has been reviewed for future operation. Different possible upgrades of the beam dumping system have been investigated. The initially considered solution for the SPS Beam Dump System is to design a new, dedicated external system, with a dump block in a shielded cavern separated from the machine ring. Unfortunately this solution is not feasible with the present technology. In this paper, the design requirements and the possible solutions are investigated, including considering a new internal beam dump in the Long Straight Section 5 (LSS5).

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THPF098

SPS-to-LHC Transfer Lines Loss Map Generation Using PyCollimate

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F.M. Velotti
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
W. Bartmann, C. Bracco, M.A. Fraser, B. Goddard, V. Kain, M. Meddahi, F.M. Velotti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Transfer Lines (TL) linking the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are both equipped with a complete collimation system to protect the LHC against mis-steered beams. During the setting up of these collimators, their gaps are positioned to nominal values and the phase-space coverage of the whole system is checked using a manual validation procedure. In order to perform this setting-up more efficiently and more reliably, the simulated loss maps of the TLs will be used to validate the collimator positions and settings. In this paper, the simulation procedure for the generation of TL loss maps is described, and a detailed overview of the new scattering routine (pycollimate) is given. Finally, the results of simulations benchmark with another scattering routine are presented.

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