Author: Valuch, D.
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WEOBA01 Beam Commissioning of the HIE-ISOLDE Post-Accelerator 2045
 
  • J.A. Rodriguez, W. Andreazza, J.M. Bibby, N. Bidault, E. Bravin, J.C. Broere, E.D. Cantero, R. Catherall, V. Cobham, M. Elias, E. Fadakis, P. Fernier, M.A. Fraser, F. Gerigk, K. Hanke, Y. Kadi, M.L. Lozano Benito, E. Matli, S. Sadovich, E. Siesling, D. Valuch, W. Venturini Delsolaro, F.J.C. Wenander, P. Zhang
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Phase 1a of the High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE (HIE-ISOLDE) project* was completed in 2015. The first cryomodule and two High Energy Beam Transfer lines (HEBT) were installed. In addition, many of the subsystems of the normal conducting part of the post-accelerator (REX) were renovated or refurbished. Following the hardware commissioning of the different system** and, in preparation for the start of the physics program, many tests and measurements were conducted as part of the beam commissioning program. The results of these tests and the plan for the next beam commissioning campaign are discussed in this paper.
* Y. Kadi et al., "The HIE-ISOLDE Project", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 312.
** W. Venturini et al., "HIE-ISOLDE First Commissioning Experience", IPAC'16
 
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WEPMB051 HIE-ISOLDE: First Commissioning Experience 2230
 
  • W. Venturini Delsolaro, E. Bravin, N. Delruelle, M. Elias, J.A. Ferreira Somoza, M.A. Fraser, J. Gayde, Y. Kadi, G. Kautzmann, F. Klumb, Y. Leclercq, M. Martino, V. Parma, J.A. Rodriguez, S. Sadovich, E. Siesling, D. Smekens, L. Valdarno, D. Valuch, P. Zhang
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The HIE ISOLDE project [1] reached a major milestone in October 2015, with the start of the first physics run with radioactive ion beams. This achievement was the culminating point of intense months during which the first cryomodule of the HIE ISOLDE superconducting Linac and its high-energy beam transfer lines were first installed and subsequently brought into operation. Hardware commissioning campaigns were conducted in order to define the envelope of parameters within which the machine could be operated, to test and validate software and controls, and to investigate the limitations preventing the systems to reach their design performance. Methods and main results of the first commissioning of HIE ISOLDE post accelerator, including the performance of the superconducting cavities with beam, will be reviewed in this contribution.  
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WEPMW028 First Attempts at using Active Halo Control at the LHC 2486
 
  • J.F. Wagner
    Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • R. Bruce, H. Garcia Morales, W. Höfle, G. Kotzian, R. Kwee-Hinzmann, A. Langner, A. Mereghetti, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, A. Rossi, B. Salvachua, R. Tomás, G. Valentino, D. Valuch, J.F. Wagner
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • G. Stancari
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Research supported by the High Luminosity LHC project.
The beam halo population is a non-negligible factor for the performance of the LHC collimation system and the machine protection. In particular this could become crucial for aiming at stored beam energies of 700 MJ in the High Luminosity (HL-LHC) project, in order to avoid beam dumps caused by orbit jitter and to ensure safety during a crab cavity failure. Therefore several techniques to safely deplete the halo, i.e. active halo control, are under development. In a first attempt a novel way for safe halo depletion was tested with particle narrow-band excitation employing the LHC Transverse Damper (ADT). At an energy of 450 GeV a bunch selective beam tail scraping without affecting the core distribution was attempted. This paper presents the first measurement results, as well as a simple simulation to model the underlying dynamics.
 
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