LHC Beam Operations Past, Present and Future
Maria Kuhn on behalf of the LHC team
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April 2010Squeeze to 3.5 m
2008 2009 2010 2011
LHC Timeline
September 10, 2008First beams around
September 19, 2008Disaster Accidental release of 600 MJ stored in one sector of LHC dipole magnets
August 2008First injection test
August, 20112.3 x 1033, 2.6 fb-1
1380 bunches
October 14 20101 x 1032
248 bunches
November 2010IonsMarch 30, 2010
First collisions at 3.5 TeV
1380
June 28 20111380 bunches
November 29, 2009Beam back
2012
18 June, 20126.6 fb-1
to ATLAS & CMS
6 June, 20126.8 x 1033
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4 July, 2012Higgs like discovery
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Integrated luminosity 2010-2012
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2012: ~30 collisions/xing at beginning of fill
with tails up to ~ 40.
2011: average 12 collisions/xing, with tails up to ~20
Record peak luminosity: 7.73 x 1033cm-2s-1
Peak luminosity 2010-2012
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ALICE and LHCb (and TOTEM and ALFA)
Peak luminosities achieved in ALICE around 5 x 10 30cm-2s-1
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LHCb 2012: 1.9 fb-1 delivered!
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Luminosity
N Number of particles per bunchKb Number of bunchesf Revolution frequency
σ* Beam size at interaction pointF Reduction factor due to crossing angleε Emittance εn Normalized emittanceβ* Beta function at IP
In 2012:εn = 2.5 mme = 5.9 x 10-4 mms* = 18.8 mm(p = 4 TeV, b* = 0.6m)
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Performance from injectors 2012Bunch
spacing[ns]
Protons per bunch [ppb]
Norm. emittance H&V
[mm]Exit SPS
Design report
25 1.15 x 1011 3.5
injected into LHC
50 1.7 x 1011 1.8
tested 25 1.2 x 1011 2.7
N.B. the importance of 50 ns in the performance so far.This at the expense of high pile-up.
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LHC Peak Performance in 2012
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Design Report 2012 Comments
Energy [TeV] 7.0 4.0 4/7 design energy
b* (IP1&IP5) [m] 0.55 0.6 exploiting available aperture,
tight collimator settings, stabilityBunch spacing [ns] 25 50
Number of bunches 2808 1374 Half nominal number of bunches,
given by 50 nsBunch intensity [ppb] 1.15 x 1011 1.6 – 1.7 x 1011 150 % of nominal
Normalized emittance [mm]
3.75 at collision
~2.5 at collision
again remarkable injector performance (but emittance preservation challenges in LHC)
Peak luminosity [cm-2s-1] 1.0 x 1034 7.73 x 1033 77 % of design luminosity
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WHAT WE HAVE LEARNT SO FAR…
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• Excellent single beam lifetime – vacuum• Excellent magnetic field quality• Beam-Beam
– Head-on is not a limitation• Collective effects!
– Single and coupled bunch instabilities • Better than expected aperture• b* reach established and exploited
– Not trivial: small beams at the IP means large beams at the triplets!
In general – beam & optics
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Operational robustness - LHC cycle
• Altogether good lifetime throughout the whole LHC cycle
• Machine remarkably reproducible– optics, orbit, collimator set-up, tune…
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Pre-cycle Injection 450 GeV Ramp Squeeze Collide
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2012 Machine protection – the challenge met
3-12-2012
Beam140 MJ
Not a single beam-induced quench at 4 TeV
11 magnet quenches at 450 GeV – injection kicker flash-over
R. Assmann
Can’t over stress the importance of this to the success of the LHC (so far).
From commissioning to real confidence in under two years.
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Availiability
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Machine performing well, huge amount of experience &
understanding gained.Good system performance,
excellent tools, reasonable availability following targeted consolidation.
This is the legacy for post LS1
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LS1
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LHC MB circuit splice consolidation proposal
Phase IInstallation of new shunts
Phase IIApplication of clamp and bus bar insulation
Phase IIIInsulation between bus bar and to ground, Lorentz force clamping
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POSSIBLE LIMITATIONS FOR POST LS1
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25 ns & electron cloud
• Photoelectrons from synchrotron radiation accelerated by the proton beam
• Electrons bounce into chamber wall → secondary electrons are emitted
• Due to short bunch spacing, high bunch intensity and low emittance: electron cloud build-up!
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Electron cloud: possible consequences• single-bunch instability• multi-bunch instability• emittance growth• gas desorption from chamber walls• heat load • particle losses, interference with diagnostics,…
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Electron bombardment of a surface has been proven to reduce drastically the secondary electron yield (SEY) of a material.This technique, known as scrubbing, provides a mean to suppress electron cloud build-up and its undesired effects
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25 ns & electron cloud
• Downside: scrubbing takes time (several weeks!)
• Electron cloud free environment after scrubbing at 450 GeV seem not be reachable in acceptable time.
• Post LS1 operation with high heat load and electron cloud density seems to be unavoidable.
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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 800
0.5
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1.5
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2.5x 1014
Time [h]
Tota
l int
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ty [p
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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 801.35
1.4
1.45
1.5
1.55
1.6
Time [h]
SEY
max
Reconstructed comparing heat load meas. and PyECLOUD sims.
The SEY evolution significantly slows down during the last scrubbing fills (more than expected from simulations and lab. experiments)
End of 2012 testsGiovanni Iadarola and team - Evian 12
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UFOs• UFOs: showstopper for 25 ns and 6.5 TeV?
– 10x increase and harder UFOs– (but no increase in low intensity fills)
• UFO “scrubbing”: does it work? • Deconditioning expected after LS1• Post LS1 operation: start with lower energy and/or 50 ns
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OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS AFTER LS1
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Beam from injectors LS1 to LS2 Number of
bunchesBunch intensity
[1011 ppb]Emittance at
injection [mm]
Emittance in collisions
[mm]
25 ns ~nominal 2760 1.15 2.8 3.7525 ns BCMS 2520 1.15 1.4 1.950 ns 1380 1.65 1.7 2.350 ns BCMS 1260 1.6 1.2 1.6
BCMS = Batch Compression and (bunch) Merging and (bunch) Splittings
Batch compression & triple splitting in PSRende Steerenberg, Gianluigi Arduini,
Theodoros Argyropoulos, Hannes Bartosik, Thomas Bohl, Karel Cornelis, Heiko Damerau, Alan Findlay, Roland Garoby, Brennan Goddard, Simone Gilardoni, Steve Hancock, Klaus Hanke, Wolfgang Höfle, Giovanni Iadarola, Elias Metral, Bettina Mikulec, Yannis Papaphilippou, Giovanni Rumolo, Elena Shaposhnikova,…
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50 ns versus 25 ns50 ns 25 ns
GOOD
• Lower total beam current• Higher bunch intensity• Smaller emittance
• Lower pile-up
BAD• High pile-up• Need to level• Pile-up stays high• High bunch intensity –
instabilities…
• Larger crossing angle; higher b*• Larger emittance• Electron cloud: need for scrubbing;
emittance blow-up; • Higher UFO rate• Higher injected bunch train intensity• Higher total beam current
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b* & crossing angle• b* reach depends on:
– available aperture– collimator settings – required crossing angle which in turn depends on
• emittance• bunch spacing
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Potential performanceNumber
of bunches
Bunch intensity
[1011 ppb]
b*/crossing
angleEmittanceLHC [mm]
Peak Luminosity
[cm-2s-1]~Pile-up
Int. Lumi per year
[fb-1]
25 ns 2760 1.15 55/189 3.75 0.93 x 1034 25 ~2425 nsBCMS 2520 1.15 45/149 1.9 1.7 x 1034 52 ~45
50 ns 1380 1.6 42/136 2.51.6 x 1034
level to0.8 x 1034
87 level to
44 ~40*
50 nsBCMS 1260 1.6 38/115 1.6
2.3 x 1034
level to0.8 x 1034
138 level to
44~40*
• All values at 6.5 TeV collision energy• 1.1 ns bunch length• 150 days proton physics• 85 mb cross-section• * different operational model – caveat - unproven All numbers approximate
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Potential performance – in words• Nominal 25 ns
– gives more-or-less nominal luminosity (1.0 x 1034 cm-2s-1)
• BCMS 25 ns – gives a healthy 1.7 x 1034 cm-2s-1
– peak <m> around 50– 83% nominal intensity
• Nominal 50 ns– gives a virtual luminosity of 1.6 x 1034 cm-2s-1 with a pile-up of 87– levelling mandatory
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2015 STRATEGY – FOR DISCUSSION
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Conclusions• Availability better than might have been expected.• Machine now magnetically, optically, operationally well
understood• System performance
– generally good to excellent– issues identified and being addressed
• Limitations well studied, well understood and quantified– still some potential implications for post LS1 operation
• Restart post LS1 with 50 ns– before moving to 25 ns – non electron cloud free environment to be accepted at least initially
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BACKUP
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Post LS1 energy• Our best estimates to train the LHC (with large errors)
– 30 quenches to reach 6.25 TeV– 100 quenches to reach 6.5 TeV
• Two quenches/day 2 to 5 days of training per sector
• The plan– Try to reach 6.5 TeV in four sectors in March 2014– Based on that experience, we decide if to go at 6.5 TeV
or step back to 6.25 TeV in March 2014
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2015 strategy – more detailed
• Low intensity commissioning of full cycle – 2 months• First stable beams – low luminosity• Intensity ramp-up – 1 to 2 months• 50 ns operation (at pile-up limit)
– Characterize vacuum, heat load, electron cloud, losses, instabilities, UFOs, impedance
• Options thereafter:– 1 week scrubbing for 25 ns, say 1 week to get 25 ns
operational (if b* and crossing angles are changed), intensity ramp up with 25 ns with further scrubbing required
– Commission levelling of 50 ns and push bunch intensity up, emittance down… not at all favored by experiments!
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