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TY - UNPB AU - Redaelli, S. ED - Eshraqi, Mohammad ED - Trahern, Garry ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - LHC Collimation for the Run Ii and Beyond J2 - Proc. of HB2016, Malmö, Sweden, July 3-8, 2016 C1 - Malmö, Sweden T2 - ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams T3 - 57 LA - english AB - The LHC achieved in 2015 record stored beam energies of about 280MJ with 6.5TeV proton beams, surpassing by about 2 orders of magnitudes achieved in previous superconducting colliders. The LHC collimation system played a key role in this achievement, ensuring a safe operation well below quench limits of superconducting magnets. In this paper, the collimation system for the LHC Run II is presented. Accelerator physics and operational challenges for controlling LHC beam losses are discussed and the collimation performance is reviewed. Limitations of the system and requirements for operating the LHC beyond Run II are also reviewed. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -