Author: Shaposhnikova, E.N.
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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.  
 
MOPC058 Upgrade of the 200 MHz RF System in the CERN SPS 214
 
  • E.N. Shaposhnikova, E. Ciapala, E. Montesinos
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The 200 MHz RF system, used in the SPS to accelerate all beams including those for the LHC, has four travelling wave structure cavities of different length. To stabilize the future higher intensity LHC beams in the SPS a larger (than now) controlled longitudinal emittance blow-up and therefore larger bucket and voltage amplitude will be necessary. However less voltage will be available in the existing system (which has a maximum peak RF power of 1 MW per cavity) due to the increased beam loading, in particular in the long cavities. This issue will be critical for beam acceleration but especially for beam transfer into the 400 MHz RF system of the LHC. The proposed solution is to shorten the two long cavities and use the freed sections together with spare sections to make two extra cavities and install two new power plants of 1.3 MW each. After this upgrade, which is a major part of the more general SPS upgrade for high luminosity LHC to be completed during 2017, the performance of the SPS RF system with high intensity beams will be significantly improved and at the same time the total impedance of the system will be reduced.  
 
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.  
 
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.  
 
TUPS028 Performance of Carbon Coating for Mitigation of Electron Cloud in the SPS 1590
 
  • C. Yin Vallgren, P. Chiggiato, P. Costa Pinto, H. Neupert, G. Rumolo, E.N. Shaposhnikova, M. Taborelli
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Amorphous carbon (a-C) coatings have been tested in electron cloud monitors (ECM) in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and have shown for LHC type beams a reduction of the EC current by a factor 104 compared to stainless steel (SS). This performance has been maintained for more than 2 years under SPS operation conditions. Secondary electron yield (SEY) laboratory data confirm that after 1 year of SPS operation, the coating maintains a SEY below 1. The compatibility of coexisting SS and a-C surfaces has been studied in an ECM having coated and uncoated areas. The results show no degradation of the properties of the a-C areas. The performance of diamond like carbon (DLC) coating has also been studied. DLC shows a less effective reduction of the EC current than a-C, but conditioning is faster than for SS. Three a-C coated dipoles were inserted in the SPS. However, even with no EC detected, the dynamic pressure rise is similar to the one observed in the SS reference dipoles. Measurement in a new ECM equipped with clearing electrodes to verify the relation between pressure signals and intensity of the EC, as well as an improvement of the diagnostics in the dipoles are in progress.  
 
TUPZ010 Longitudinal Emittance Blow-up in the LHC 1819
 
  • P. Baudrenghien, A.C. Butterworth, M. Jaussi, T. Mastoridis, G. Papotti, E.N. Shaposhnikova, J. Tückmantel
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The LHC relies on Landau damping for longitudinal stability. To avoid decreasing the stability margin at high energy, the longitudinal emittance must be continuously increased during the acceleration ramp. Longitudinal blow-up provides the required emittance growth. The method was implemented through the summer of 2010. We inject band-limited RF phase-noise in the main accelerating cavities during the whole ramp of about 11 minutes. Synchrotron frequencies change along the energy ramp, but the digitally created noise tracks the frequency change. The position of the noise-band, relative to the nominal synchrotron frequency, and the bandwidth of the spectrum are set by pre-defined constants, making the diffusion stop at the edges of the demanded distribution. The noise amplitude is controlled by feedback using the measurement of the average bunch length. This algorithm reproducibly achieves the programmed bunch length of about 1.2 ns (4 σ) at flat top with low bunch-to-bunch scatter and provides a stable beam for physics coast.  
 
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.  
 
MOPS009 Probing Intensity Limits of LHC-type Bunches in the CERN SPS with Nominal Optics 610
 
  • B. Salvant, G. Adrian, D.J. Allen, O. Andujar, T. Argyropoulos, J. Axensalva, J. Baldy, H. Bartosik, S. Cettour Cave, F. Chapuis, J.F. Comblin, K. Cornelis, D.G. Cotte, K. Cunnington, H. Damerau, M. Delrieux, J.L. Duran-Lopez, A. Findlay, J. Fleuret, F. Follin, P. Freyermuth, H. Genoud, S.S. Gilardoni, A. Guerrero, S. Hancock, K. Hanke, O. Hans, R. Hazelaar, W. Höfle, L.K. Jensen, J. Kuczerowski, Y. Le Borgne, R. Maillet, D. Manglunki, S. Massot, E. Matli, G. Metral, B. Mikulec, E. Métral, J.-M. Nonglaton, E. Ovalle, L. Pereira, F.C. Peters, A. Rey, J.P. Ridewood, G. Rumolo, J.L. Sanchez Alvarez, E.N. Shaposhnikova, R.R. Steerenberg, R.J. Steinhagen, J. Tan, B. Vandorpe, E. Veyrunes
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Some of the upgrade scenarios of the high-luminosity LHC require large intensity per bunch from the injector chain. Single bunch beams with intensities of up to 3.5 to 4·1011 p/b and nominal emittances were successfully produced in the PS Complex and delivered to the SPS in 2010. This contribution presents results of studies with this new intense beam in the SPS to probe single bunch intensity limitations with nominal gamma transition. In particular, the vertical Transverse Mode Coupling Instability (TMCI) threshold with low chromaticity was observed at 1.6·1011 p/b for single nominal LHC bunches in the SPS. With increased vertical chromaticity, larger intensities could be injected, stored along the flat bottom and accelerated up to 450 GeV/c. However, significant losses and/or transverse emittance blow up were then observed. Longitudinal and transverse optimization efforts in the PSB, PS and SPS were put in place to minimize this beam degradation and succeeded to obtain single 2.3·1011 p/b LHC type bunches with satisfying parameters at extraction of the SPS.  
 
THOBA01 Electron Cloud Observations in LHC 2862
 
  • G. Rumolo, G. Arduini, V. Baglin, H. Bartosik, P. Baudrenghien, N. Biancacci, G. Bregliozzi, S.D. Claudet, R. De Maria, J. Esteban Muller, M. Favier, C. Hansen, W. Höfle, J.M. Jimenez, V. Kain, E. Koukovini, G. Lanza, K.S.B. Li, G.H.I. Maury Cuna, E. Métral, G. Papotti, T. Pieloni, F. Roncarolo, B. Salvant, E.N. Shaposhnikova, R.J. Steinhagen, L.J. Tavian, D. Valuch, W. Venturini Delsolaro, F. Zimmermann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • C.M. Bhat
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • U. Iriso
    CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  • N. Mounet, C. Zannini
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  Operation of LHC with bunch trains different spacings has revealed the formation of an electron cloud inside the machine. The main observations of electron cloud build-up are the pressure rise measured at the vacuum gauges in the warm regions, as well as the increase of the beam screen temperature in the cold regions due to an additional heat load. The effects of the electron cloud were also visible as a strong instability and emittance growth affecting the last bunches of longer trains, which could be improved running with higher chromaticity and/or larger transverse emittances. A summary of the 2010 and 2011 observations and measurements and a comparison with existing models will be presented. The efficiency of scrubbing and scrubbing strategies to improve the machine running performance will be also briefly discussed.  
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