First Beam Commissioning of the 400 MHz LHC RF System (2009)
Butterworth, A C, Angoletta, M E, Arnaudon, L, Baudrenghien, P, Bohl, T, Brunner, O, ...
Hardware commissioning of the LHC RF system was successfully completed in time for first beams in LHC in September 2008. All cavities ware conditioned to nominal field, power systems tested and all...
Hardware and Initial Beam Commissioning of the LHC RF Systems (2009)
Linnecar, T, Angoletta, M E, Arnaudon, L, Baudrenghien, P, Bohl, T, Brunner, O, ...
Hardware commissioning of the LHC RF Systems, the ACS Superconducting RF systems, ADT Transverse Dampers and APWL Wideband Longitudinal Monitors, started in late 2007 and was completed in time for...
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...
CERN PSB Beam Tests of CNAO Synchrotron's Digital LLRF (2008)
Angoletta, M E, Bourrion, O, De Martinis, C, Falbo, L, Findlay, A, Foglio, R, ...
The Italian National Centre for Oncological hAdrontherapy (CNAO), in its final construction phase, uses proton and carbon ion beams to treat patients affected by solid tumours. At the heart of CNAO...
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...
Neural Network Application in Aluminium Hot-Roll Process (2008)
This paper reports the application of ANNs-based identification of the model of the aluminium hot roll process in the ALUMIX plant of Fusina - Venice - (Italy). The neural model has been trained with...
Performance tests of a new fast digitiser for beam diagnostic applications (2007)
A new type of PCI-based fast digitisers has been deployed to implement new beam diagnostic systems and as a prototype for a new family of applications. The modules selected for the first tests and...