Construction Status of Linac4 (2009)
Gerigk, F, Carli, C, Garoby, R, Hanke, K, Lombardi, A M, MacCaferri, R, ...
The civil engineering works of the Linac4 linear accelerator at CERN started in October 2008 and regular machine operation is foreseen for 2013. Linac4 will accelerate H−ions to an energy of 160...
An RF scenario for protons and ions in the PS2 (2009)
Benedikt, M, Carli, C, Hancock, S
The PS2 is proposed as a replacement for the ageing PS and will provide proton beams with kinetic energies up to 50 GeV. It must also deliver Pb54+ ions, for which the revolution frequency swing will...
Longitudinal painting schemes for H- charge exchange injection into the PS2 (2009)
Benedikt, M, Carli, C, Hancock, S, Knünz, V, Vonderhaid, I
Minimization of direct space charge tune shift at injection into the PS2 is important for the reduction of beam losses. A determining parameter for the tune shift is the bunching factor, defined as...
Orbit, optics and chromaticity correction for PS2 negative momentum compaction lattices (2009)
Papaphilippou, Y, Barranco, J, Bartmann, W, Benedikt, M, Carli, C, De Maria, R, ...
The effect of magnet misalignments in the beam orbit and linear optics functions are reviewed and correction schemes are applied to the negative momentum compaction lattice of PS2. Chromaticity...
Linear optics design of negative momentum compaction lattices for PS2 (2009)
Papaphilippou, Y, Barranco, J, Bartmann, W, Benedikt, M, Carli, C, Goddard, B, ...
In view of the CERN Proton Synchrotron proposed replacement with a new ring (PS2), a detailed optics design has been undertaken following the evaluation of several lattice options. The basic arc...
LHC Beams from the CERN PS Booster (2009)
Mikulec, B, Blas, A, Carli, C, Findlay, A, Hanke, K, Rumolo, G, ...
The CERN PS Booster (PSB) produces a variety of beam flavours for the LHC. While the nominal LHC physics beams require 6 Booster bunches with intensities up to 1.6·1012 protons per bunch, during the...
Lattice Issues of the CERN PSB with H- Charge exchange injection hardware (2009)
Aiba, M, Carli, C, Chanel, M, Goddard, B, Martini, M, Weterings, W
The motivation for the construction of CERN Linac4 is to improve the performance of the PSB by raising the injection energy and implementing a new H- charge exchange multiturn injection scheme....
Studies on single batch transfer of the LHC type beams between the CERN PS Booster and the PS (2009)
Blas, A, Carli, C, Findlay, A, Garoby, R, Hancock, S, Hanke, K, ...
At present, for most LHC type physics beams, six buckets of the PS operated with harmonic number h=7 are filled in two transfers, and each of the PS Booster rings provides only one bunch. The scheme...
Operational considerations for the PSB H- Injection System (2009)
Weterings, W, Aiba, M, Borburgh, J, Carli, C, Fowler, T, Goddard, B
For the LINAC4 project the PS Booster (PSB) injection system will be upgraded. The 160 MeV Hbeam will be distributed to the 4 superimposed PSB synchrotron rings and horizontally injected by means of...
Proceedings of the 2009 Chamonix workshop on LHC performance (2009)
The Chamonix workshop 2009 on LHC performance reviewed and analysed the events in autumn 2008 with the successful start of beam commissioning and the accident on 19th September. The focus was on safe...
LHC Performance Workshop (2009)
The Chamonix workshop 2009 on LHC performance reviewed and analysed the events in autumn 2008 with the successful start of beam commissioning and the accident on 19th September. The focus was on safe...
Ions for LHC: Towards Completion of the Injector Chain (2008)
Manglunki, Django, Albert, M, Angoletta, M E, Arduini, Gianluigi, Baudrenghien, P, Bellodi, G, ...
The commissioning of CERN's ion injector complex [1] to allow 1.1 PeV collisions of ions in LHC is well under way. After the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) in 2005 [2] and the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in...
Cooled Beam Diagnostics on LEIR (2008)
Tranquille, G, Bal, C, Carli, C, Chanel, M, Prieto, V, Sautier, R, ...
Electron cooling is central in the preparation of dense bunches of lead beams for the LHC. Ion beam pulses from the LINAC3 are transformed into short highbrightness bunches using multi-turn...
LEIR: TOWARDS THE NOMINAL LEAD ION BEAM (2008)
M. Chanel, M. E Angoletta, V. Baggiolini, P. Belochitskii, A. Beuret, A. Blas, ...
The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) is a central piece for LHC ion operation at CERN, transforming long Linac3 pulses into high density bunches needed for LHC. The first phase of LEIR commissioning...
THE LHC LEAD INJECTOR CHAIN (2008)
A. Beuret, J. Borburgh, A. Blas, H. Burkhardt, C. Carli, M. Chanel, ...
A sizeable part of the LHC physics programme foresees lead-lead collisions with a design luminosity of 10 27 cm-2 s-1. This will be achieved after an upgrade of the ion injector chain comprising...
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Transverse Performance Of The Proton Beam Delivered (2007)
The Cern Ps, M. Benedikt, C. Carli, M. Chanel, G. Cyvoct, M. Giovannozzi, ...
The performance of the CERN LHC will depend heavily on the high-brightness beam delivered by the injector chain. In 1999, after completion of the programme of hardware upgrades of the PS Complex, a...
160 MeV H- Injection from LINAC4 (2007)
Aiba, M, Carli, C, Cousineau, S, Gerigk, F, Martini, M
The ultimate luminosity (2.3 x 1034 cm-2 s-1) in the LHC can only be reached or even exceeded if a major upgrade of the CERN proton injector complex takes place. The first identified bottleneck...
Optics Considerations for the PS2 (2007)
Bartmann, W, Benedikt, M, Carli, C, Goddard, B, Hancock, S, Jowett, John M, ...
CERN envisages replacing the existing Proton Synchrotron (PS) with a larger synchrotron (PS2) capable of injecting at higher energy into the SPS. Since it should increase the performance not only of...
IONS FOR LHC: STATUS OF THE INJECTOR CHAIN (2007)
Manglunki, Django, Beuret, A, Borburgh, J, Carli, C, Chanel, M, Dumas, L, ...
The LHC will, in addition to proton runs, be operated with Pb ions and provide collisions at energies of 5.5 TeV per nucleon pair, i.e. more than 1.1 PeV per event, to experiments. The transformation...
Linac4 Technical Design Report (2006)
Arnaudon, L, Baudrenghien, P, Baylac, M, Bellodi, G, Body, Y, Borburgh, J, ...
Linac4 is an H- linear accelerator, intended to replace Linac2 as injector to the PS Booster (PSB). By delivering to the PSB a beam at 160 MeV energy, Linac4 will provide the conditions to double the...
Carli, C, Belochitskii, P, Chanel, M, Pasternak, J
The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) is a low energy ion cooling and accumulation ring and serves to compress long ion pulses from Linac3 into high density bunches suitable for LHC ion operation. Issues of...
The LHC as a Proton-Nucleus Collider (2006)
Following its initial operation as a proton-proton (p-p) and heavy-ion (208Pb82+-208Pb82+) collider, the LHC is expected to operate as a p-Pb collider. Later it may collide protons with other lighter...
Design and Validation with Measurements of the LEIR Injection Line (2006)
Roncarolo, F, Carli, C, Chanel, M, Dumas, L, Scrivens, R
The CERN Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) commissioning started in the year 2005. O4+and Pb54+ion beams are transferred at 4.2 MeV/nucleon from Linac 3 to LEIR through a low energy transfer line, for which...
Feasibility studies of the EULIMA Light Ion Medical Accelerator (1992)
Mandrillon, P., Farley, F. J. M., Tang, J.Y., Carli, C., Cesari, G., Fiétier, Nicolas, ...
Progress of the feasibility studies of the European Light Ion Medical Accelerator (1990)
Lefevre, P., Monkewitz, Peter, Rocher, C., Ostojic, R., Fiétier, Nicolas, Farley, F. J. M., ...
A status report on the feasibility studies for the EULIMA medical accelerator project is given. Recent advances in the assessment of the various basic accelerator types ofr the facility are presented...