IPAC2016 - List of Authors (Mether, L.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPOR022	Beam Dynamics Observations of the 2015 High Intensity Scrubbing Runs at the Cern Sps	648
	H. Bartosik, G. Iadarola, K.S.B. Li, L. Mether, A. Romano, G. Rumolo, M. Schenk CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Beam quality degradation caused by e-cloud effects has been identified as one of the main performance limitations for high intensity LHC beams with 25 ns bunch spacing in the SPS. In view of the beam parameters targeted with the LHC injectors upgrade (LIU) project, about two weeks of SPS machine time in 2015 were devoted to dedicated scrubbing runs with high intensity LHC 25 ns and dedicated 'doublet' beams in order to study the achievable reduction of e-cloud effects and quantify the consequent beam performance improvements. This paper describes the main observations concerning the coherent instabilities and beam dynamics limitations encountered as well as a detailed characterisation of the performance reach with the highest beam intensity presently available from the pre-injectors.
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TUPMW017	Electron Cloud Observations during LHC Operation with 25 ns Beams	1458
	K.S.B. Li, H. Bartosik, G. Iadarola, L. Mether, A. Romano, G. Rumolo, M. Schenk CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	While during the Run 1 (2010-2012) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) most of the integrated luminosity was produced with 50 ns bunch spacing, for the Run 2 start-up (2015) it was decided to move to the nominal bunch spacing of 25 ns. As expected, with this beam configuration strong electron cloud effects were observed in the machine, which had to be mitigated with dedicated 'scrubbing' periods at injection energy. This enabled to start the operation with 25 ns beams at 6.5 TeV, but e-cloud effects continued to pose challenges while gradually increasing the number of circulating bunch trains. This contribution will review the encountered limitations and the mitigation measures that where put in place and will discuss possible strategies for further performance gain.
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Beam Dynamics Observations of the 2015 High Intensity Scrubbing Runs at the Cern Sps

648

H. Bartosik, G. Iadarola, K.S.B. Li, L. Mether, A. Romano, G. Rumolo, M. Schenk
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Beam quality degradation caused by e-cloud effects has been identified as one of the main performance limitations for high intensity LHC beams with 25 ns bunch spacing in the SPS. In view of the beam parameters targeted with the LHC injectors upgrade (LIU) project, about two weeks of SPS machine time in 2015 were devoted to dedicated scrubbing runs with high intensity LHC 25 ns and dedicated 'doublet' beams in order to study the achievable reduction of e-cloud effects and quantify the consequent beam performance improvements. This paper describes the main observations concerning the coherent instabilities and beam dynamics limitations encountered as well as a detailed characterisation of the performance reach with the highest beam intensity presently available from the pre-injectors.

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TUPMW017

Electron Cloud Observations during LHC Operation with 25 ns Beams

1458

K.S.B. Li, H. Bartosik, G. Iadarola, L. Mether, A. Romano, G. Rumolo, M. Schenk
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

While during the Run 1 (2010-2012) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) most of the integrated luminosity was produced with 50 ns bunch spacing, for the Run 2 start-up (2015) it was decided to move to the nominal bunch spacing of 25 ns. As expected, with this beam configuration strong electron cloud effects were observed in the machine, which had to be mitigated with dedicated 'scrubbing' periods at injection energy. This enabled to start the operation with 25 ns beams at 6.5 TeV, but e-cloud effects continued to pose challenges while gradually increasing the number of circulating bunch trains. This contribution will review the encountered limitations and the mitigation measures that where put in place and will discuss possible strategies for further performance gain.

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