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TY - CONF AU - Goddard, B. AU - Carlier, E. AU - Ducimetière, L. AU - Kotzian, G. AU - Uythoven, J.A. AU - Velotti, F.M. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Kim, Dong Eon ED - Kim, Kyung Sook ED - Ko, In Soo ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - SPS Injection and Beam Quality for LHC Heavy Ions With 150 ns Kicker Rise Time J2 - Proc. of IPAC2016, Busan, Korea, May 8-13, 2016 C1 - Busan, Korea T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 7 LA - english AB - As part of the LHC Injectors Upgrade project for LHC heavy ions, the SPS injection kicker system rise time needs reduction below its present 225 ns. One technically challenging option under consideration is the addition of fast Pulse Forming Lines in parallel to the existing Pulse Forming Networks for the 12 kicker magnets MKP-S, targeting a system field rise time of 100 ns. An alternative option is to optimise the system to approach the existing individual magnet field rise time (2-98%) of 150 ns. This would still significantly increase the number of colliding bunches in LHC while minimising the cost and effort of the system upgrade. The observed characteristics of the present system are described, compared to the expected system rise time, together with results of simulations and measurements with 175 and 150 ns injection batch spacing. The expected beam quality at injection into LHC is quantified, with the emittance growth and simulated tail population taking into account expected jitter and synchronisation errors, damper performance and SPS non-linear optics behavior. The outlook for deployment is discussed, with the implications for LHC operation and HL-LHC performance. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1360 EP - 1362 KW - injection KW - ion KW - kicker KW - damping KW - proton DA - 2016/06 PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-95450-147-2 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMR048 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2016/papers/tupmr048.pdf ER -