Author: Métral, E.
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MOAM5P50 LHC Run 2: Results and Challenges 14
 
  • R. Bruce, G. Arduini, H. Bartosik, R. De Maria, M. Giovannozzi, G. Iadarola, J.M. Jowett, M. Lamont, A. Lechner, K.S.B. Li, D. Mirarchi, E. Métral, T. Pieloni, S. Redaelli, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, R. Tomás, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The first proton run of the LHC was very successful and resulted in important physics discoveries. It was followed by a two-year shutdown where a large number of improvements were carried out. In 2015, the LHC was restarted and this second run aims at further exploring the physics of the standard model and beyond at an increased beam energy. This article gives a review of the performance achieved so far and the limitations encountered, as well as the future challenges for the CERN accelerators to maximize the data delivered to the LHC experiments in Run 2. Furthermore, the status of the 2016 LHC run and commissioning is discussed.  
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MOPR024 General Formula to Deduce the Space Charge Tune Spread From a Quadrupolar Pick-Up Measurement 120
 
  • E. Métral
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  In 1966, W. Hardt derived the oscillation frequencies obtained in the presence of space charge forces and gradients errors for elliptical beams. Since then, a simple formula is usually used to relate the shift of the quadrupolar mode (obtained from the quadrupolar pick-up) and the space charge tune spread, depending only on the ratio between the two transverse equilibrium beam sizes. However, this formula is not always valid, in particular for machines running close to the coupling resonance Qx = Qy with almost round beams. A new general formula is presented, giving the space charge tune spread as a function of i) the measured shift of the quadrupolar mode, ii) the ratio between the two transverse equilibrium beam sizes and iii) the distance between the two transverse tunes.  
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TUAM2X01 Measurement and Interpretation of Transverse Beam Instabilities in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Extrapolations to HL-LHC 254
 
  • E. Métral, G. Arduini, N. Biancacci, X. Buffat, L.R. Carver, G. Iadarola, K.S.B. Li, T. Pieloni, A. Romano, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, M. Schenk, C. Tambasco
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • J. Barranco
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  Since the first transverse instability observed in 2010, many studies have been performed on both measurement and simulation sides and several lessons have been learned. In a machine like the LHC, not only all the mechanisms have to be understood separately, but the possible interplays between the different phenomena need to be analyzed in detail, including the beam-coupling impedance (with in particular all the necessary collimators to protect the machine but also new equipment such as crab cavities for HL-LHC), linear and nonlinear chromaticity, Landau octupoles (and other intrinsic nonlinearities), transverse damper, space charge, beam-beam (long-range and head-on), electron cloud, linear coupling strength, tune separation between the transverse planes, tune split between the two beams, transverse beam separation between the two beams, etc. This paper reviews all the transverse beam instabilities observed and simulated so far, the mitigation measures which have been put in place, the remaining questions and challenges and some recommendations for the future.  
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