IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Bohl, T.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPC054	The LHC RF System - Experience with Beam Operation	202
	P. Baudrenghien, M. E. Angoletta, T. Argyropoulos, L. Arnaudon, J. Bento, T. Bohl, O. Brunner, A.C. Butterworth, E. Ciapala, F. Dubouchet, J. Esteban Muller, D.C. Glenat, G. Hagmann, W. Höfle, D. Jacquet, M. Jaussi, S. Kouzue, D. Landre, J. Lollierou, P. Maesen, P. Martinez Yanez, T. Mastoridis, J.C. Molendijk, C. Nicou, J. Noirjean, G. Papotti, A.V. Pashnin, G. Pechaud, J. Pradier, J. Sanchez-Quesada, M. Schokker, E.N. Shaposhnikova, D. Stellfeld, J. Tückmantel, D. Valuch, U. Wehrle, F. Weierud CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The LHC RF system commissioning with beam and physics operation for 2010 and 2011 are presented. It became clear in early 2010 that RF noise was not a lifetime limiting factor: the crossing of the much feared 50 Hz line for the synchrotron frequency did not affect the beam. The broadband LHC RF noise is reduced to a level that makes its contribution to beam diffusion in physics well below that of Intra Beam Scattering. Capture losses are also under control, at well below 0.5%. Longitudinal emittance blow-up, needed for ramping of the nominal intensity single bunch, was rapidly commissioned. In 2011, 3.5 TeV/beam physics has been conducted with 1380 bunches at 50 ns spacing, corresponding to 55% of the nominal current. The intensity per bunch (1.3 ·10¹¹ p) is significantly above the nominal 1.15 ·10¹¹. By August 2011 the LHC has accumulated more than 2 fb-1 integrated luminosity, well in excess of the 1 fb-1 target for 2011.

MOPC057	Loss of Landau Damping in the LHC	211
	E.N. Shaposhnikova, T. Argyropoulos, P. Baudrenghien, T. Bohl, A.C. Butterworth, J. Esteban Muller, T. Mastoridis, G. Papotti, J. Tückmantel, W. Venturini Delsolaro, U. Wehrle CERN, Geneva, Switzerland C.M. Bhat Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Loss of Landau damping leading to a single bunch longitudinal quadrupole instability has been observed in the LHC during the ramp and on the 3.5 TeV flat top for small injected longitudinal emittances. The first measurements are in good agreement with the threshold calculated for the expected longitudinal reactive impedance budget of the LHC as well as with the threshold dependence on beam energy. The cure is a controlled longitudinal emittance blow-up during the ramp which for constant threshold through the cycle should provide an emittance proportional to the square root of energy.

MOPS010	Experimental Studies with Low Transition Energy Optics in the SPS	613
	H. Bartosik, T. Argyropoulos, T. Bohl, S. Cettour Cave, K. Cornelis, J. Esteban Muller, Y. Papaphilippou, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, E.N. Shaposhnikova, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The optics of the SPS can be tuned to lower transition energy such that the slippage factor at injection is raised by a factor of almost 3. From theory, an increase of the intensity thresholds for transverse mode coupling, longitudinal coupled bunch and longitudinal instabilities due to the loss of Landau damping can be expected. In this paper, experimental studies in the SPS with single bunches of protons with intensities of up to 3.5·10¹¹ p/b on the flat bottom and at 450 GeV/c are presented. Longitudinal instabilities were studied with LHC-type beams with 50~ns spacing and injected intensities up to 1.8·10¹¹ p/b. The measurements address the increase of intensity thresholds and the achievable transverse emittances in the new low gamma transition optics with respect to the nominal SPS optics. The obtained results are compared with numerical simulations.

TUPZ021	The SPS Beam Quality Monitor, from Design to Operation	1849
	G. Papotti, T. Bohl, F. Follin, E.N. Shaposhnikova CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The SPS Beam Quality Monitor is a system that monitors longitudinal beam parameters on a cycle-by-cycle basis and prevents extraction to the LHC in case the specifications are not met. This avoids losses, unnecessary stress of machine protection components and luminosity degradation, additionally helping efficiency during the filling process. The system has been operational since the 2009 LHC run, checking the beam pattern, its correct position with respect to the LHC references, individual bunch lengths and stability. In this paper the algorithms used, the hardware implementation and the operational aspects are presented.

TUPZ022	Longitudinal Beam Measurements at the LHC: The LHC Beam Quality Monitor	1852
	G. Papotti, T. Bohl, F. Follin, U. Wehrle CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The LHC Beam Quality Monitor is a system that measures individual bunch lengths and positions, similarly to the twin system SPS Beam Quality Monitor, from which it was derived. The pattern verification that the system provides is vital during the injection process to verify the correctness of the injected pattern, while the bunch length measurement is fedback to control the longitudinal emittance blow up performed during the energy ramp. In 2010 the system could for example clearly detect instances of longitudinal instabilities and beam excitation due to excess RF noise. The algorithms used, the hardware implementation and the system integration in the LHC control infrastructure are presented in this paper, along with possible improvements.

WEPS022	Ions for LHC: Performance of the Injector Chain	2529
	D. Manglunki, M. E. Angoletta, P. Baudrenghien, G. Bellodi, A. Blas, T. Bohl, C. Carli, E. Carlier, S. Cettour Cave, M. Chanel, K. Cornelis, H. Damerau, A. Findlay, S.S. Gilardoni, S. Hancock, J.M. Jowett, D. Kuchler, S. Maury, E. Métral, S. Pasinelli, M. Schokker, G. Tranquille, B. Vandorpe, U. Wehrle, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The first LHC Pb ion run took place at 1.38 A TeV/c per beam in autumn 2010. After a short period of running-in, the injector chain was able to fill the collider with up to 137 bunches per ring, with an intensity of 10⁸ Pb ions/bunch, about 50% higher than the design value. This yielded a luminosity of 3E25 Hz/cm², allowing the experiments to accumulate just under 10 inverse microbarn each during the four week run. We review the performance of the individual links of the injector chain, and address the main issues limiting the LHC luminosity, in view of reaching 10²6 Hz/cm² in 2011, and substantially beyond when the LHC energy increases after the long shutdown in 2013-14.

THPS051	Development of Fragmented Low-Z Ion Beams for the NA61 Fixed-target Experiment at the CERN SPS	3541
	I. Efthymiopoulos, O.E. Berrig, T. Bohl, H. Breuker, M. Calviani, S. Cettour-Cave, K. Cornelis, D. Manglunki, S. Mataguez, S. Maury, J. Spanggaard, C. Valderanis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Z. Fodor KFKI, Budapest, Hungary M. Gazdzicki IKF, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany F. Gouber, A. Ivashkin RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia P. Seyboth MPI-P, München, Germany H. Stroebele IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
	The NA61 experiment, aims to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement at low SPS energies and to find signatures of the critical point of strongly interacting matter. A broad range in T-μ_B phase diagram will be covered by performing an energy (13A-158A GeV/c) and system size (p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Ca, Xe+La) scan. In a first phase, fragmented ion beams of 7Be or 11C produced as secondaries with the same momentum per nucleon when the incident primary Pb-ion beam hits a thin Be target will be used. The H2 beam line that transports the beam to the experiment acts as a double spectrometer which combined with a new thin target (degrader) where fragments loose energy proportional to the square of their charge allows the separation of the wanted A/Z fragments. Thin scintillators and TOF measurement for the low energy points are used as particle identification devices. In this paper results from the first test of the fragmented ion beam done in 2010 will be presented showing that a pure Be beam can be obtained satisfying the needs of the experiment.

Paper

Title

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The LHC RF System - Experience with Beam Operation

202

P. Baudrenghien, M. E. Angoletta, T. Argyropoulos, L. Arnaudon, J. Bento, T. Bohl, O. Brunner, A.C. Butterworth, E. Ciapala, F. Dubouchet, J. Esteban Muller, D.C. Glenat, G. Hagmann, W. Höfle, D. Jacquet, M. Jaussi, S. Kouzue, D. Landre, J. Lollierou, P. Maesen, P. Martinez Yanez, T. Mastoridis, J.C. Molendijk, C. Nicou, J. Noirjean, G. Papotti, A.V. Pashnin, G. Pechaud, J. Pradier, J. Sanchez-Quesada, M. Schokker, E.N. Shaposhnikova, D. Stellfeld, J. Tückmantel, D. Valuch, U. Wehrle, F. Weierud
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The LHC RF system commissioning with beam and physics operation for 2010 and 2011 are presented. It became clear in early 2010 that RF noise was not a lifetime limiting factor: the crossing of the much feared 50 Hz line for the synchrotron frequency did not affect the beam. The broadband LHC RF noise is reduced to a level that makes its contribution to beam diffusion in physics well below that of Intra Beam Scattering. Capture losses are also under control, at well below 0.5%. Longitudinal emittance blow-up, needed for ramping of the nominal intensity single bunch, was rapidly commissioned. In 2011, 3.5 TeV/beam physics has been conducted with 1380 bunches at 50 ns spacing, corresponding to 55% of the nominal current. The intensity per bunch (1.3 ·10¹¹ p) is significantly above the nominal 1.15 ·10¹¹. By August 2011 the LHC has accumulated more than 2 fb-1 integrated luminosity, well in excess of the 1 fb-1 target for 2011.

MOPC057

Loss of Landau Damping in the LHC

211

E.N. Shaposhnikova, T. Argyropoulos, P. Baudrenghien, T. Bohl, A.C. Butterworth, J. Esteban Muller, T. Mastoridis, G. Papotti, J. Tückmantel, W. Venturini Delsolaro, U. Wehrle
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
C.M. Bhat
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Loss of Landau damping leading to a single bunch longitudinal quadrupole instability has been observed in the LHC during the ramp and on the 3.5 TeV flat top for small injected longitudinal emittances. The first measurements are in good agreement with the threshold calculated for the expected longitudinal reactive impedance budget of the LHC as well as with the threshold dependence on beam energy. The cure is a controlled longitudinal emittance blow-up during the ramp which for constant threshold through the cycle should provide an emittance proportional to the square root of energy.

MOPS010

Experimental Studies with Low Transition Energy Optics in the SPS

613

H. Bartosik, T. Argyropoulos, T. Bohl, S. Cettour Cave, K. Cornelis, J. Esteban Muller, Y. Papaphilippou, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, E.N. Shaposhnikova, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The optics of the SPS can be tuned to lower transition energy such that the slippage factor at injection is raised by a factor of almost 3. From theory, an increase of the intensity thresholds for transverse mode coupling, longitudinal coupled bunch and longitudinal instabilities due to the loss of Landau damping can be expected. In this paper, experimental studies in the SPS with single bunches of protons with intensities of up to 3.5·10¹¹ p/b on the flat bottom and at 450 GeV/c are presented. Longitudinal instabilities were studied with LHC-type beams with 50~ns spacing and injected intensities up to 1.8·10¹¹ p/b. The measurements address the increase of intensity thresholds and the achievable transverse emittances in the new low gamma transition optics with respect to the nominal SPS optics. The obtained results are compared with numerical simulations.

TUPZ021

The SPS Beam Quality Monitor, from Design to Operation

1849

G. Papotti, T. Bohl, F. Follin, E.N. Shaposhnikova
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The SPS Beam Quality Monitor is a system that monitors longitudinal beam parameters on a cycle-by-cycle basis and prevents extraction to the LHC in case the specifications are not met. This avoids losses, unnecessary stress of machine protection components and luminosity degradation, additionally helping efficiency during the filling process. The system has been operational since the 2009 LHC run, checking the beam pattern, its correct position with respect to the LHC references, individual bunch lengths and stability. In this paper the algorithms used, the hardware implementation and the operational aspects are presented.

TUPZ022

Longitudinal Beam Measurements at the LHC: The LHC Beam Quality Monitor

1852

G. Papotti, T. Bohl, F. Follin, U. Wehrle
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The LHC Beam Quality Monitor is a system that measures individual bunch lengths and positions, similarly to the twin system SPS Beam Quality Monitor, from which it was derived. The pattern verification that the system provides is vital during the injection process to verify the correctness of the injected pattern, while the bunch length measurement is fedback to control the longitudinal emittance blow up performed during the energy ramp. In 2010 the system could for example clearly detect instances of longitudinal instabilities and beam excitation due to excess RF noise. The algorithms used, the hardware implementation and the system integration in the LHC control infrastructure are presented in this paper, along with possible improvements.

WEPS022

Ions for LHC: Performance of the Injector Chain

2529

D. Manglunki, M. E. Angoletta, P. Baudrenghien, G. Bellodi, A. Blas, T. Bohl, C. Carli, E. Carlier, S. Cettour Cave, M. Chanel, K. Cornelis, H. Damerau, A. Findlay, S.S. Gilardoni, S. Hancock, J.M. Jowett, D. Kuchler, S. Maury, E. Métral, S. Pasinelli, M. Schokker, G. Tranquille, B. Vandorpe, U. Wehrle, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The first LHC Pb ion run took place at 1.38 A TeV/c per beam in autumn 2010. After a short period of running-in, the injector chain was able to fill the collider with up to 137 bunches per ring, with an intensity of 10⁸ Pb ions/bunch, about 50% higher than the design value. This yielded a luminosity of 3E25 Hz/cm², allowing the experiments to accumulate just under 10 inverse microbarn each during the four week run. We review the performance of the individual links of the injector chain, and address the main issues limiting the LHC luminosity, in view of reaching 10²6 Hz/cm² in 2011, and substantially beyond when the LHC energy increases after the long shutdown in 2013-14.

THPS051

Development of Fragmented Low-Z Ion Beams for the NA61 Fixed-target Experiment at the CERN SPS

3541

I. Efthymiopoulos, O.E. Berrig, T. Bohl, H. Breuker, M. Calviani, S. Cettour-Cave, K. Cornelis, D. Manglunki, S. Mataguez, S. Maury, J. Spanggaard, C. Valderanis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Z. Fodor
KFKI, Budapest, Hungary
M. Gazdzicki
IKF, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
F. Gouber, A. Ivashkin
RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
P. Seyboth
MPI-P, München, Germany
H. Stroebele
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The NA61 experiment, aims to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement at low SPS energies and to find signatures of the critical point of strongly interacting matter. A broad range in T-μ_B phase diagram will be covered by performing an energy (13A-158A GeV/c) and system size (p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Ca, Xe+La) scan. In a first phase, fragmented ion beams of 7Be or 11C produced as secondaries with the same momentum per nucleon when the incident primary Pb-ion beam hits a thin Be target will be used. The H2 beam line that transports the beam to the experiment acts as a double spectrometer which combined with a new thin target (degrader) where fragments loose energy proportional to the square of their charge allows the separation of the wanted A/Z fragments. Thin scintillators and TOF measurement for the low energy points are used as particle identification devices. In this paper results from the first test of the fragmented ion beam done in 2010 will be presented showing that a pure Be beam can be obtained satisfying the needs of the experiment.