Author: Coello de Portugal, J.M.
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MOPAB130 Cross-Calibration of the LHC Transverse Beam-Profile Monitors 437
 
  • R. Alemany-Fernández, F. Alessio, A. Alexopoulos, C. Barschel, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, M. Ferro-Luzzi, A. Garcia-Tabares, M. Hostettler, O. Karacheban, E.H. Maclean, R. Matev, T. Persson, P.K. Skowroński, R. Tomás, G. Trad, S. Vlachos, B. Würkner
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • G.R. Coombs
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • T.B. Hadavizadeh
    Oxford University, Physics Department, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • M. Hofer
    TU Vienna, Wien, Austria
  • L. van Riesen-Haupt
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
  Calibration of a transverse beam profile monitor is of fundamental importance to guarantee the best possible accuracy and reliability of the instrument over time. In LHC the calibration standard for transverse-profile measurements are the wire scanners. Other profile monitors such as beam synchrotron light telescopes and interferometers are calibrated with respect to them. Additional information about single-bunch sizes can be obtained from beam-gas imaging in the LHCb vertex detector, from the transverse convolved beam sizes extracted from luminosity scans at the collision points, and from the evolution of the luminous-region parameters as reconstructed by ATLAS and CMS inner tracker detectors during such scans. For the first time in LHC, a dedicated cross-calibration of all the above-mentioned systems was carried out with beam in 2016. Additionally, dedicated optics measurements were also performed in order to determine with the highest possible accuracy the amplitude function at the interaction points and at the position of the profile monitors. Results of these measurements are presented in this paper.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-MOPAB130  
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TUPVA030 Measurement of Beta-Beating Due to Strong Head-on Beam-Beam Interactions in the LHC 2121
 
  • P. Gonçalves Jorge, J. Barranco García, T. Pieloni
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • X. Buffat, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, E. Fol, L.E. Medina Medrano, R. Tomás, A. Wegscheider
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The LHC operation relies on a good knowledge of the optics, usually corrected in absence of beam-beam interactions. In a near future, both the LHC and the HL-LHC will need to cope with large head-on beam-beam parameters, the impact on the optics needs to be understood and, if necessary, corrected. The results of a dedicated experiment performed at injection energy are discussed in this paper.  
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TUPVA042 K-Modulation Developments via Simultaneous Beam Based Alignment in the LHC 2159
 
  • L. van Riesen-Haupt, A. Seryi
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • J.M. Coello de Portugal, E. Fol, R. Tomás, R. Tomás
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: EuroCirCol
A parasitic effect of k-modulation is that if the modulated quadrupole has an offset the modulation results in a dipole like kick forcing the beam on a new orbit. This paper presents a new method using the orthonormality of singular value decomposition that uses this new orbit to estimate the offset. This could be used to measure misalignments or crossing angles but could also help improve k-modulation \beta measurements by predicting the parasitic tune change caused by the new orbit not passing through the centre of the sextupoles.
 
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WEPIK030 Experimental Validation of the Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing Scheme at the LHC 2992
 
  • S.D. Fartoukh, R. Bruce, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, A. Garcia-Tabares, E.H. Maclean, L. Malina, A. Mereghetti, D. Mirarchi, T. Persson, M. Pojer, L. Ponce, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, P.K. Skowroński, M. Solfaroli, R. Tomás, D. Valuch, A. Wegscheider, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) [1] scheme offers new techniques to deliver unprecedentedly small beam spot size at the interaction points of the ATLAS and CMS experiments of the LHC, while perfectly controlling the chromatic properties of the corresponding optics (linear and non-linear chromaticities, off-momentum beta-beating, spurious dispersion induced by the crossing bumps). The first series of beam tests with ATS optics were achieved during the LHC Run I (2011/2012) for a first validation of the basics of the scheme at small intensity. In 2016, a new generation of more performing ATS optics was developed and more extensively tested in the machine, still with probe beams for optics measurement and correction at β*=10 cm, but also with a few nominal bunches to establish first collisions at nominal β* (40 cm) and beyond (33 cm), and to analysis the robustness of these optics in terms of collimation and machine protection. The paper will highlight the most relevant and conclusive results which were obtained during this second series of ATS tests.
[1] S. Fartoukh , Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 16, 111002
 
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WEPIK093 New Methods for Measurement of Nonlinear Errors in LHC Experimental IRs and Their Application in the HL-LHC 3155
 
  • E.H. Maclean, F.S. Carlier, J.M. Coello de Portugal, A. Garcia-Tabares, M. Giovannozzi, L. Malina, T. Persson, P.K. Skowroński, R. Tomás
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Studies of nonlinear errors in LHC experimental insertions (IRs) during Run 1 were based upon feed-down to tune and coupling from the crossing angle orbit bumps. Useful for validating the magnetic model, this method alone is of limited use to understand discrepancies between magnetic and beam-based measurement. Feed-down from high-order multipoles is also difficult to observe. During Run 2 several alternative methods were tested in the LHC. This paper summarizes the results of these tests, and comments on their potential application to the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.  
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