TUODFI  —  Circular Colliders   (27-Jun-06   15:00—16:00)

Chair: E. Levichev, BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk

   
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TUODFI01 The Final Collimation System for the LHC 986
 
  • R.W. Assmann, O. Aberle, G. Bellodi, A. Bertarelli, C.B. Bracco, H.-H. Braun, M. Brugger, S. Calatroni, R. Chamizo, A. Dallocchio, B. Dehning, A. Ferrari, P. Gander, A. Grudiev, E.B. Holzer, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, M. Jonker, Y. Kadi, K. Kershaw, J. Lendaro, J. Lettry, R. Losito, M. Magistris, A.M. Masi, M. Mayer, E. Métral, R. Perret, C. Rathjen, S. Redaelli, G. Robert-Demolaize, S. Roesler, F. Ruggiero, M. Santana-Leitner, P. Sievers, M. Sobczak, E. Tsoulou, V. Vlachoudis, Th. Weiler
    CERN, Geneva
  • I. Baishev, I.L. Kurochkin
    IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
  
  The LHC collimation system has been re-designed over the last three years in order to address the unprecedented challenges that are faced with the 360 MJ beams at 7 TeV. The layout of the LHC has now been fixed and a final approach for collimation and cleaning has been adopted. In total 132 collimator locations have been reserved in the two LHC rings and can be installed in a phased approach. Ninety collimators of five different types will be available for initial beam operation. The system has been fully optimized for avoiding quenches of super-conducting magnets during beam losses and for sufficient survival of beamline components against radioactive dose. The phased approach for LHC collimation is described, the various collimators and their functionalities are explained, and the expected system performance is summarized.  
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TUODFI02 DAFNE Experience with Negative Momentum Compaction 989
 
  • M. Zobov, D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, A. Drago, A. Gallo, C. Milardi, P. Raimondi, B. Spataro, A. Stella
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  
  There are several potential advantages for a collider operation with a lattice having a negative momentum compaction factor (alfa): bunches can be shorter and have a more regular shape; longitudinal beam-beam effects and synchrobetatron resonances are predicted to be less dangerous; requirements on sextupole strengths can be relaxed because there is no head-tail instability with the negative chromaticity. Since the lattice of the Frascati e+e- Phi-factory DAFNE is flexible enough to provide collider operation with alfa < 0, we have exploited this possibility to study experimentally the beam dynamics. The negative momentum compaction lattices have been successfully implemented and stable 1 A currents have been stored in both the electron and positron rings without any problem for RF cavities and feedback systems operation. First collisions have been tested at low currents. In this paper we describe the experimental results and compare them with expectations and numerical simulations. Present limitations to DAFNE operation with alfa < 0 are also discussed.  
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TUODFI03 Operational Status of CESR-c 992
 
  • J.A. Crittenden
    Cornell University, Department of Physics, Ithaca, New York
  
  We summarize recent running experience at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring operating as a high-statistics production-threshold factory for mesons containing charm quarks. Since beginning operation at beam energies near 2 GeV in late 2003, CESR has accumulated world-record samples of D and D$_s$ meson decays and has also operated in an energy-scanning mode, making unique contributions to the presently very active field of charm spectroscopy. CESR lattice design is characterized by the versatility provided by the variety of beam-line components applied to the challenges imposed by the beam-beam interactions at the parasitic crossing points in the pretzel orbits and the necessity of powerful superconducting wiggler magnets used to tune damping and emittance. We describe the observed tune-plane, beam-current and luminosity limits, as well as our understanding of their sources and near-term plans for operational improvements.  
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