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Improvement of the LHC orbit feedback testing framework
/ Calia, Andrea (CERN) ; Alves, Diogo (CERN) ; Wenninger, Jorg (CERN) ; Hostettler, Michi (CERN) ; Jackson, Stephen (CERN)
During the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2 2019-2021) of the LHC, the orbit feedback correction software (OFB) of the LHC was redesigned to satisfy new requirements for LHC Run 3 (2022-2025) and to clean up legacy functionalities. The OFB is an essential component of LHC high intensity operation since the orbit must be stabilized to a fraction of the beam size during the entire LHC machine cycle. [...]
2024 - 4 p.
- Published in : JACoW IPAC 2024 (2024) THPG30
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In : 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2024), Nashville, TN, United States, 19 - 24 May 2024, pp.THPG30
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Operation of the LHC during the 2023 proton run
/ Calia, Andrea (CERN) ; Salvant, Benoit (CERN) ; Mirarchi, Daniele (CERN) ; Nisbet, David (CERN) ; Jacquet, Delphine (CERN) ; Métral, Elias (CERN) ; Bravin, Enrico (CERN) ; Trad, Georges (CERN) ; Wenninger, Jorg (CERN) ; Solfaroli, Matteo (CERN) et al.
In 2023 the LHC restarted after the yearly winter shutdown with a new machine configuration optimized for intensities of up to 1.8e+11 protons per bunch. In the first two months of the 2023 run the bunch intensities were pushed up to 1.6e+11 protons per bunch until a severe vacuum degradation, caused by a damaged RF bridge, occurred close to the ATLAS experiment. [...]
2024 - 4 p.
- Published in : JACoW IPAC 2024 (2024) MOPC17
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In : 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2024), Nashville, TN, United States, 19 - 24 May 2024, pp.MOPC17
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Mitigation of losses at injection protection devices in the CERN LHC
/ Tomás, R (CERN) ; Calia, A (CERN) ; D'Andrea, M (CERN) ; Deniau, L (CERN) ; Jacquet, D (CERN) ; Kostoglou, S (CERN) ; Maclean, E H (CERN) ; Mirarchi, D (CERN) ; Paraschou, K (CERN) ; Persson, T (CERN) et al.
During loss maps performed with beam at injection energy in the LHC with the high octupole and chromaticity settings used for multi-train operation, large beam losses were observed at an injection protection device (TDIS). Although these losses did not present a threat to machine operation or protection, reducing them is of high importance to improve machine performance. [...]
2023 - 4 p.
- Published in : JACoW IPAC 2023 (2023) MOPL019
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In : 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2023), Venice, Italy, 7 - 12 May 2023, pp.MOPL019
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Operational $\beta$* levelling at the LHC in 2022 and beyond
/ Hostettler, M (CERN) ; Calia, A (CERN) ; Fartoukh, S (CERN) ; Jacquet, D (CERN) ; Wenninger, J (CERN)
During the third run period of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as well as for the future High-Luminosity LHC era, luminosity levelling by beta* is a key technique to control the pile-up in the high-luminosity experiments ATLAS and CMS while maintaining Landau damping through the head-on beam-beam interaction. This implies changing the machine optics in the interaction regions while keeping high-intensity beams in collision and the experimental detectors in their data taking configuration. [...]
2023 - 4 p.
- Published in : JACoW IPAC 2023 (2023) MOPL045
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In : 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2023), Venice, Italy, 7 - 12 May 2023, pp.MOPL045
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The LHC run 2022
/ Jacquet, D (CERN) ; Argyropoulos, T (CERN) ; Bravin, E (CERN) ; Calia, A (CERN) ; Hostettler, M (CERN) ; Métral, E (CERN) ; Mirarchi, D (CERN) ; Nisbet, D (CERN) ; Persson, T (CERN) ; Redaelli, S (CERN) et al.
Following a 3-year long shutdown for upgrade and consolidation work, the LHC was re-commissioned in spring 2022, achieving a new record of 6.8 TeV per beam. This paper will describe the beam commissioning phase, the electron cloud conditioning, and the intensity ramp-up bringing the machine to a steady production state. [...]
2023 - 4 p.
- Published in : JACoW IPAC 2023 (2023) MOPL020
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In : 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2023), Venice, Italy, 7 - 12 May 2023, pp.MOPL020
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Summary of the Post-Long Shutdown 2 LHC Hardware Commissioning Campaign
/ Apollonio, Andrea (CERN) ; Andreassen, Odd (CERN) ; Antoine, Alain (CERN) ; Argyropoulos, Theodoros (CERN) ; Bastos, Miguel (CERN) ; Bednarek, Mateusz (CERN) ; Bordini, Bernardo (CERN) ; Brodzinski, Krzysztof (CERN) ; Calia, Andrea (CERN) ; Charifoulline, Zinour (CERN) et al.
In this contribution we provide a summary of the LHC hardware commissioning campaign following the second CERN Long Shutdown (LS2), initially targeting the nominal LHC energy of 7 TeV. A summary of the test procedures and tools used for testing the LHC superconducting circuits is given, together with statistics on the successful test execution. [...]
2022 - 4 p.
- Published in : JACoW IPAC 2022 (2022) 335-338
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In : 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2022), Bangkok, Thailand, 12 - 17 Jun 2022, pp.335-338
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Operational tools from 2017 to 2018
/ Calia, A (CERN) ; Fuchsberger, K (CERN) ; Hostettler, M (CERN) ; Jacquet, D (CERN) ; Hemelsoet, G H (CERN) ; Gabriel, M (CERN) ; Hruska, M (CERN)
During the 2017 run of the LHC, several applications and tools underwent
improvements and new features were added. Next to others, the main focus was on
a new system for coupling measurement, based on the ADT AC-Dipole and the
luminosity control system, to which e.g. [...]
2019 - 4 p.
- Published in : (2019) , pp. 213-216
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In : 8th Evian Workshop on LHC beam operation, Evian Les Bains, France, 12 - 14 Dec 2017, pp.213-216
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Renovation of the Beam-Based Feedback Controller in the LHC
/ Grech, Leander (CERN) ; Alves, Diogo (CERN) ; Calia, Andrea (CERN) ; Hostettler, Michael (CERN) ; Jackson, Stephen (CERN) ; Valentino, Gianluca (U. Malta) ; Wenninger, Jorg (CERN)
This work presents an extensive overview of the design choices and implementation of the Beam-Based Feedback System (BBFS) used in operation until the LHC Run 2. The main limitations of the BBFS are listed and a new design called BFCLHC, which uses the CERN Front-End Software Architecture (FESA), framework is proposed. [...]
2022 - 6 p.
- Published in : JACoW ICALEPCS2021 (2022) 671-676
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In : 18th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, Online, 18 - 22 Oct 2021, pp.671-676
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