• DocumentCode
    3199204
  • Title

    Ions for LHC: Beam Physics and Engineering Challenges

  • Author

    Angoletta, M.E. ; Baggiolini, V. ; Beuret, Andre ; Blas, A. ; Borburgh, J. ; Braun, H.H. ; Carli, C. ; Chanel, M. ; Fowler, A. ; Gilardoni, S. ; Gourber-Pace, M. ; Hancock, S. ; Hill, C.E. ; Hourican, M. ; Jowett, J.M. ; Kahle, K. ; Küchler, D. ; Mahner,

  • Author_Institution
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    16-20 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    946
  • Lastpage
    948
  • Abstract
    The first phase of the heavy ion physics program at the LHC aims to provide lead-lead collisions at energies of 5.5 TeV per colliding nucleon pair and ion-ion luminosity of 1027cm-2s-1. The transformation of CERN’s ion injector complex (Linac3-LEIR-PS-SPS) presents a number of beam physics and engineering challenges, which are described in this paper. In the LHC itself, there are fundamental performance limitations due to various beam loss mechanisms. To study these without risk of damage there will be an initial period of operation with a reduced number of nominal intensity bunches. While reducing the work required to commission the LHC with ions in 2008, this will still enable early physics discoveries.
  • Keywords
    Cooling; Electrons; Hardware; Ion accelerators; Ion beams; Large Hadron Collider; Lead; Physics; Pulse modulation; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8859-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PAC.2005.1590620
  • Filename
    1590620
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3199204