| Published Articles | |
| Title | The LHC Beam Gas Vertex Detector - a Non-Invasive Profile Monitor for High Energy Machines |
| Author(s) | Vlachos, Sotiris (CERN) ; Alexopoulos, Andreas (CERN) ; Barchel, Colin (CERN ; Cockcroft Inst. Accel. Sci. Tech. ; Liverpool U.) ; Bay, Aurelio (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Blanc, Frederic (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Bravin, Enrico (CERN) ; Bregliozzi, Giuseppe (CERN) ; Chritin, Nicolas (CERN) ; Dehning, Bernd (CERN) ; Ferro-Luzzi, Massimiliano (CERN) ; Giani, Sebastiana (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Giovannozzi, Massimo (CERN) ; Girard, Olivier (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Greim, Roman (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Haefeli, Guido (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Hopchev, Plamen (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Jacobsson, Richard (CERN) ; Jensen, Lars (CERN) ; Jones, Robert (CERN) ; Kain, Verena (CERN) ; Kim, T (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Karpinski, Waclaw (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Kuonen, Axel (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Matev, Rosen (CERN) ; Nakada, Tatsuya (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Rihl, Mariana (CERN) ; Salustino Guimaraes, Valdir (CERN) ; Schael, Stefan (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Schneider, Olivier (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Schultz von Dratzig, A (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Schwering, Georg (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Tobin, Mark (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Veness, Raymond (CERN) ; Veyrat, Quentin (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) ; Wlochal, Michael (RWTH Aachen U.) ; Würkner, Benedikt (CERN) ; Xu, Zhirui (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) |
| Publication | 2018 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| In: | 6th International Beam Instrumentation Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 20 -24 Aug 2017, pp.WE3AB1 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2017-WE3AB1 |
| Subject category | Accelerators and Storage Rings ; Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC |
| Project | CERN HL-LHC |
| Abstract | The Beam Gas Vertex (BGV) monitor is being developed as part of the High Luminosity LHC project with the aim of providing measurements with less than 5% error on the beam size with an integration time of 5 minutes. It will be the only instrument capable of non-invasive beam size measurement throughout the LHC acceleration cycle with high intensity physics beams. A prototype BGV monitor has been installed in the LHC since 2016. Particles emerging from beam-gas interactions are recorded by 2 planes of scintillating fibre detectors. Based on vertex reconstruction of the detected tracks, this monitor allows non-invasive measurement of beam profiles with bunch-by-bunch resolution. A dedicated computer farm performs track reconstruction and event analysis on-line so that real-time beam profile measurements can be provided. Data taken in 2016 and 2017 will be presented that demonstrate the power of the method. |
| Copyright/License | CC-BY-3.0 |
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