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TY - CONF AU - Valloni, A. AU - Appleby, R.B. AU - Bruce, R. AU - Mereghetti, A. AU - Molson, J. AU - Rafique, H. AU - Redaelli, S. AU - Tygier, S.C. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Kim, Dong Eon ED - Kim, Kyung Sook ED - Ko, In Soo ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - MERLIN Simulations of the LHC Collimation System with 6.5 TeV Beams J2 - Proc. of IPAC2016, Busan, Korea, May 8-13, 2016 C1 - Busan, Korea T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 7 LA - english AB - The accelerator physics code MERLIN has been extended in many areas to make detailed studies of the LHC collima- tion system and calculate loss maps from beam halo losses. Large scale tracking simulations have been produced for the 2015 run configuration at 6.5 TeV. We present results of cleaning inefficiency simulations of the LHC's multi-stage collimation system along with a detailed comparison be- tween MERLIN, SixTrack, and measured beam losses. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2518 EP - 2521 KW - collimation KW - simulation KW - proton KW - scattering KW - betatron DA - 2016/06 PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-95450-147-2 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-WEPMW037 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2016/papers/wepmw037.pdf ER -