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LHC : construction and operation
                                     Jö Wenninger
                                       rg
                        CERN Beams Department / Operation group
                      LNF Spring School 'Bruno Touschek' - May 2010


                                      Part 1:
                                      •Introduction to accelerator
                                      physics
                                      •LHC magnet and layout
                                      •Luminosity and interaction
                                      regions
                                      •Injection and filling schemes




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Outline
             • The LHC challenges

             • Introduction to magnets and particle focusing

             • LHC magnets and arc layout                      Part 1

             • LHC luminosity and interaction regions

             • Injection and filling schemes

             • Machine protection
                                                                Part 2
             • Incident 19th Sept. 2008 and consequences

             • LHC operation




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LHC History
            1982 : First studies for the LHC project
            1983 : Z0/W discovered at SPS proton antiproton collider (SppbarS)
            1989 : Start of LEP operation (Z/W boson-factory)
            1994 : Approval of the LHC by the CERN Council
            1996 : Final decision to start the LHC construction
            2000 : Last year of LEP operation above 100 GeV
            2002 : LEP equipment removed
            2003 : Start of LHC installation
            2005 : Start of LHC hardware commissioning
            2008 : Start of (short) beam commissioning
                         Powering incident on 19th Sept.
            2009 : Repair, re-commissioning and beam commissioning
            2010 : Start of a 2 year run at 3.5 TeV/beam



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The Large Hadron Collider LHC
Installed in the 26.7 km LEP tunnel
Depth of 70-140 m                                            Lake of Geneva



                          g
                    C rin
                 LH
                                  CMS, Totem

                                                            LHCb
                              Control Room
                                               SP
                                                  S r
                                                      ing


                                        ATLAS, LHCf

             ALICE


                                                                         4
17.03.2010                                                              Der LHC
Tunnel circumference 26.7 km, tunnel diameter 3.8 m
          Depth : ~ 70-140 m – tunnel is inclined by ~ 1.4%
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LHC Layout
8 arcs.                                                                                  IR5:CMS
8 straight sections (LSS),                           2                                                                 Beam dump
                                                  m
                                               ea                                                                         blocks
             ~ 700 m long.                 B                       1
The beams exchange their
                                                          e   am
                                                      B                                                  IR6: Beam
positions (inside/outside) in 4
points to ensure that both rings                                       IR4: RF + Beam                  dumping system
have the same circumference !                                           instrumentation




                                       IR3: Momentum                                                            IR7: Betatron
                                      collimation (normal                                                    collimation (normal
                                     conducting magnets)                                                    conducting magnets)




                                                                                                           IR8: LHC-B
                                                          IR2:ALICE



                                                                                          IR1: ATLAS
                                Injection ring 1                                                                 Injection ring 2
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LHC – yet another collider?
        The LHC surpasses existing accelerators/colliders in 2 aspects :
               The energy of the beam of 7 TeV that is achieved within the size constraints
                 of the existing 26.7 km LEP tunnel.
                    LHC dipole field       8.3 T                          A factor 2 in field
                    HERA/Tevatron          ~4 T                           A factor 4 in size

               The luminosity of the collider that will reach unprecedented values for a
                 hadron machine:
                    LHC          pp        ~ 1034 cm-2 s-1
                                                                           A factor 30
                    Tevatron pp            3x10 cm s
                                                  32   -2   -1
                                                                          in luminosity
                    SppbarS pp             6x1030 cm-2 s-1


              The combination of very high field magnets and very high beam intensities
                required to reach the luminosity targets makes operation of the LHC a great
                challenge !



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Luminosity challenges
          The event rate N for a physics process with cross-section σ is proprotional to
          the collider Luminosity L:
                            N = Lσ           k = number of bunches = 2808
                                             N = no. protons per bunch = 1.15×10 11
                          kN 2 f             f = revolution frequency = 11.25 kHz
                      L=                     σ * x, σ * y = beam sizes at collision point (hor./vert.) = 16 µ m
                         4πσ xσ *
                             *
                                 y



   To maximize L:                                                       High beam “brillance” N/ ε
   • Many bunches (k)                                                   (particles per phase space
   • Many protons per bunch (N)                                                    volume)
   • A small beam size σ * u = ( β * ε ) 1/2                           Injector chain performance !
                                                                               Small envelope
      β   *
              : the beam envelope (optics)                  Optics
                                                                               Strong focusing !
      ε : is the phase space volume occupied             property
                                                       Beam property
      by the beam (constant along the ring).



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Basics of accelerator physics




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Accelerator concept




     Charged particles are accelerated, guided and confined by electromagnetic fields.
      - Bending:                           Dipole magnets
      - Focusing:                          Quadrupole magnets
      - Acceleration:                      RF cavities
     In synchrotrons, they are ramped together synchronously to match beam energy.
     - Chromatic aberration:               Sextupole magnets

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Bending
                                    →      →   →   →             Force
       Lorentz force

            Magnetic
             rigidity

                LHC: ρ = 2.8 km given by LEP tunnel!



      To reach p = 7 TeV/c given a bending radius of ρ = 2805 m:
             Bending field : B = 8.33 Tesla
             Superconducting magnets
       To collide two counter-rotating proton beams, the beams must be in separate
        vaccum chambers (in the bending sections) with opposite B field direction.
     There are actually 2 LHCs and the magnets have a 2-magnets-in-one design!


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Bending Fields
                                                           I
                                                               II
                                                           B


                                               B field
                                           p
                       B                                 F force
                                           F        p
                    Two-in-one magnet design
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Focusing

         N                           S
                        F
              By
                        y
                              F
                              x
        S                          N
                                           Transverse focusing is achieved with quadrupole
 x                                         magnets, which act on the beam like an optical lens.
                                           Linear increase of the magnetic field along the axes
                                           (no effect on particles on axis).

  y                                        Focusing in one plane, de-focusing in the other!



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Accelerator lattice
     horizontal plane




         Focusing in both planes is achieved by a
         succession of focusing and de-focusing
         quadrupole magnets :

                          The FODO structure




      vertical plane

                                                    14
Alternating gradient lattice
                                           One can find an arrangement of
                                           quadrupole magnets that provides net
                                           focusing in both planes (“strong
                                           focusing”).

                                           Dipole magnets keep the particles on
                                           the circular orbit.

                                           Quadrupole magnets focus alternatively
                                           in both planes.

                                            The lattice effectively constitutes a
        s                                               particle trap!
y

    x



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LHC arc lattice
            QF         dipole     decapole              QD      sextupole                           QF
                       magnets    magnets                       magnets




                   small sextupole
                   corrector magnets

                              LHC Cell - Length about 110 m (schematic layout)

          Dipole- und Quadrupol magnets
            –    Provide a stable trajectory for particles with nominal momentum.
          Sextupole magnets
            –    Correct the trajectories for off momentum particles (‚chromatic‘ errors).
          Multipole-corrector magnets
            –    Sextupole - and decapole corrector magnets at end of dipoles
            –    Used to compensate field imperfections if the dipole magnets. To stabilize trajectories for
                 particles at larger amplitudes – beam lifetime !

                 One rarely talks about the multi-pole magnets, but they are
                         essential for good machine performance !
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Beam envelope
         The focusing structure (mostly defined by the quadrupoles: gradient,
          length, number, distance) defines the transverse beam envelope.
         The function that describes the beam envelope is the so-called ‘β’-function
          (betatron function):
              • In the LHC arcs the optics follows a regular pattern – regular FODO structure.
              • In the long straight sections, the betatron function is less regular to fulfill various
                constraints: injection, collision point focusing…


          QF        QD         QF          QD   QF        QD        QF

                                                                                 The envelope peaks in
                                                                                 the focusing elements !



                             Vertical                   Horizontal




                    Betatron functions in a simple FODO cell

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Beam emittance and beam size
                                            For   an ensemble of particles:
                                            The transverse emittance , ε, is the area of the
                                            phase-space ellipse.
                                            Beam size = projection on X (Y) axis.
                                            The beam size σ at any point along the accelerator
                                            is given by (neglecting the contribution from energy
                                            spread):

                                               σ = Envelope × Emittance = β ε
        For unperturbed proton beams, the normalized emittance ε n is
        conserved:
                     ε n = εγ = constant                   γ = Lorentz factor


        The beam size shrinks with                               β εn   1
        energy:                                               σ=      ∝
                                                                  γ     γ
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Why does the transverse emittance shrink?
         The  acceleration is purely longitudinal, i.e the transverse momentum is not
          affected:

                                   pt = constant

         The    emittance is nothing but a measure of <pt>.
         To  maintain the focusing strength, all magnetic fields are kept proportional to E
          (γ), including the quadrupole gradients.
         Withconstant <pt> and increasing quadrupole gradients, the transverse
          excursion of the particles becomes smaller and smaller !




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LHC beam sizes
                                              Beta-function at the LHC

                                                 β = 0.5 ÷ 5'000 m
                                                 β = 30 ÷ 180 m               ARC

                                              Nominal LHC normalized emittance :

                                                         εn = εγ = 3.5 µm

                                               Example LHC arc, peak β = 180 m

                                                Energy          ε (nm)      σ (mm)
                                                (GeV)
                                                450               7.2        1.14
                                                3500             0.93        0.41
                                                7000             0.47        0.29




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Acceleration
        Acceleration is performed with electric fields fed into Radio-Frequency (RF)
         cavities. RF cavities are basically resonators tuned to a selected frequency.
        To accelerate a proton to 7 TeV, a 7 TV potential must be provided to the beam:
            In circular accelerators the acceleration is done in small steps, turn after turn.
            At the LHC the acceleration from 450 GeV to 7 TeV lasts ~20 minutes, with an
             average energy gain of ~0.5 MeV on each turn.



                                                                           
                                                                           E(t )




                                                                                             s


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LHC RF system
     The LHC RF system operates at 400 MHz.
     It is composed of 16 superconducting cavities, 8 per beam.
     Peak accelerating voltage of 16 MV/beam.

                          For LEP at 104 GeV : 3600 MV/beam !

                            Synchrotron
                           radiation loss
      LHC @ 3.5 TeV         0.42 keV/turn

      LHC @ 7 TeV           6.7 keV /turn

      LEP @ 104 GeV         ~3 GeV /turn



    The nominal LHC beam radiates a
    sufficient amount of visible photons
         to be actually observable !
          (total power ~ 0.2 W/m)



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Visible protons !
                                                    Some of the energy radiation by the LHC
                                                     protons is emitted as visible light. It can
                                                     be extracted with a set of mirrors to image
                                                     the beams in real time.
                                                    This is a powerful tool to understand the
                                                     beam size evolution. Protons are very
                                                     sensitive to perturbations, keeping their
                                                     emittance small is always a challenge.



                                           Flying wire LHC
                                                        Synch. light




                Flying wire SPS
                (injector)



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Cavities in the tunnel




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RF buckets and bunches
                       The particles
                       oscillate back
                                             The particles are trapped in the RF voltage:
     RF Voltage         and forth in                  this gives the bunch structure
                        time/energy




                                                                 2.5 ns                     time




     ∆E                   LHC bunch spacing = 25 ns = 10 buckets ⇔ 7.5 m



                                   RF bucket

                                                                                            time
                         2.5 ns
                                               450 GeV                    3.5 TeV
                                  RMS bunch length    12.8 cm        5.8 cm
                                  RMS energy spread   0.031%         0.02%
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Magnets & Tunnel




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Superconductivity
   The very high DIPOLE field of 8.3 Tesla required
     to achieve 7 TeV/c can only be obtained with
     superconducting magnets !
   The material determines:

        Tc critical temperature
        Bc critical field
   The cable production determines:

       Jc critical current density
   Lower temperature ⇒ increased current density ⇒
     higher fields.                                                        Bc


                                                       Applied field [T]
   Typical for NbTi @ 4.2 K
                                                                                                  Normal state
       2000 A/mm2 @ 6T
   To reach 8-10 T, the temperature must be lowered                            Superconducting
     to 1.9 K – superfluid Helium !                                                  state


                                                                                                                 Tc
                                                                                      Temperature [K]
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The superconducting cable
                                            ∅6 µm
                                                                       ∅1 mm
     A.Verweij




                  Typical value for operation at 8T and 1.9 K: 800 A

                                           width 15 mm

                                                         Rutherford cable
                                            A.Verweij


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Coils for dipoles
          Dipole length 15 m
          I = 11’800 A @ 8.3 T




                                                  The coils must be aligned very
                                              precisely to ensure a good field quality
                                                          (i.e. ‘pure’ dipole)


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Ferromagnetic iron


                                                                Non-magnetic collars



                                                                   Superconducting coil

                                                                   Beam tube


                                                                   Steel cylinder for
                                                                       Helium

                                                                  Insulation vacuum


                                                                Vacuum tank

                                                                 Supports

         Weight (magnet + cryostat) ~ 30 tons, length 15 m
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                                           Rüdiger Schmidt                                30
Regular arc:
                                                                        Magnets




                                                                           1232 main
                                                                           dipoles +
                                                                           3700 multipole
                                       392 main quadrupoles +              corrector
                                       2500 corrector magnets              magnets
                                       (dipole, sextupole, octupole)          (sextupole,
                                                                              octupole,
J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                      decapole)
                                                    J. Wenninger - ETHZ - December 2005     31 31
Regular arc:
                       Connection via
                       service module and                       Cryogenics
                       jumper




                                            Static bath of superfluid
        Supply and recovery of              helium at 1.9 K in cooling
        helium with 26 km long              loops of 110 m length
        cryogenic distribution
        line
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                                            J. Wenninger - ETHZ - December 2005   32 32
Regular arc:
              Beam vacuum for
              Beam 1 + Beam                                    Vacuum
              2




                                           Insulation vacuum for the
        Insulation vacuum for              magnet cryostats
        the cryogenic
        distribution line

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                                           J. Wenninger - ETHZ - December 2005   33 33
Tunnel view (1)




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Tunnel view (2)




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Complex interconnects
            Many complex connections of super-conducting cable that will
            be buried in a cryostat once the work is finished.




  This SC cable carries 12’000 A
 for the main quadrupole magnets

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                                           CERN visit McEwen               36
Magnet cooling scheme
                                                     10000
                                                                  SOLID


                                                     1000

                                                                                                                CRITICAL POINT
                                                                                             λ line
                                                                             HeII                         HeI




                                           P [kPa]
                                                      100
                                                                 Pressurized He II

                                                                                                                  GAS
                                                       10

                                                                 Saturated He II

                                                        1
                                                             1                                                                   10
                                                                                                      T [K]




                                                                                        He II: super-fluid
                                                                                         o Very low viscosity
                                                                                         o Very high thermal conductivity




  Courtesy S. Claudet

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Cryogenics

                                                                       Pt 5


                                                      Pt 4                             Pt 6


                                                                8 x 18kW @ 4.5 K
                                                               1’800 SC magnets
                                               Pt 3          24 km & 20 Distribution
                                                              Cryoplant kW @ 1.8 K            Pt 7
                                                                 Present Version
                                                                 36’000 t @ 1.9K
                                                              130 t He inventory


                                                      Pt 2                             Pt 8


                                                              Pt 1.8   Pt 1
                                                 Cryogenic plant
   Courtesy S. Claudet
                                                             Grid power ~32 MW
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Cool down
                                        First cool-down of LHC sectors
                                  Cool-down time to 1.9 K is nowadays ~4 weeks/sector
                                                   [sector = 1/8 LHC]
                      300


                      250
    Temperature [K]




                      200


                      150


                      100


                       50


                        0
                         12-    10-      07-      04-     03-     31-      28-     26-     23- 21-Jul- 18-           15-
                        Nov-   Dec-     Jan-     Feb-    Mar-    Mar-     Apr-    May-    Jun-  2008   Aug-         Sep-
                        2007   2007     2008     2008    2008    2008     2008    2008    2008         2008         2008
                       ARC56_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST   ARC78_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST   ARC81_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST   ARC23_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST
                       ARC67_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST   ARC34_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST   ARC12_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST   ARC45_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST




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Vacuum chamber
                                                 The  beams circulate in two ultra-high
                                                  vacuum chambers, P ~ 10-10 mbar.
                50 mm
                                                 A Copper beam screen protects the bore of
                                                  the magnet from heat deposition due to
                                                  image currents, synchrotron light etc from
                                                  the beam.
                                                 The beam screen is cooled to T = 4-20 K.


            36 mm
                                                  Beam screen


                                                  Magnet bore




                                           Cooling channel (Helium)
     Beam envel (± 4 σ)
     ~ 1.8 mm @ 7 TeV
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Luminosity and interaction regions




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Luminosity
     Let us look at the different factors in this formula, and what we can do to
       maximize L, and what limitations we may encounter !!

                          kN 2 f
                      L=
                         4πσ xσ *
                             *
                                 y


      f : the revolution frequency is given by the circumference, f=11.246 kHz.
      N : the bunch population – N=1.15x1011 protons
                - Injectors (brighter beams)
                - Collective interactions of the particles
                - Beam encounters
      k : the number of bunches – k=2808                                     For k = 1:
                 - Injectors (more beam)                                L = 3.5 × 1030 cm −2 s −1
                 - Collective interactions of the particles
                 - Interaction regions
                 - Beam encounters
      σ* : the size at the collision point – σ*y=σ*x=16 µm
                 - Injectors (brighter beams)
                 - More focusing – stronger quadrupoles

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Collective (in-)stability
          The electromagnetic fields of a bunch interact with the vacuum chamber walls (finite
           resistivity !), cavities, discontinuities etc that it encounters:




          The fields act back on the bunch itself or on following bunches.
          Since the fields induced by of a bunch increase with bunch intensity, the bunches may
           become COLLECTIVELY unstable beyond a certain intensity, leading to poor lifetime
           or massive looses intensity loss.
          Such effects can be very strong in the LHC injectors, and they will also affect the LHC –
           in particular because we have a lot of carbon collimators (see later) that have a very
           bad influence on beam stability !

                    limits the intensity per bunch and per beam !


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‘Beam-beam’ interaction
          Y                                                        When a particle of one beam encounters the
                                                                    opposing beam at the collision point, it senses
                                                                    the fields of the opposing beam.
                                                                   Due to the typically Gaussian shape of the
              F o rc e                                              beams in the transverse direction, the field
                                                                    (force) on this particle is non-linear, in
                                                                    particular at large amplitudes.
                                    Quadrupole e lens                  focal length depends on amplitude !
                                     Q u a d r u p o le L n s e
                                                                   The effect of the non-linear fields can become
          Y                                                         so strong (when the beams are intense) that
                                                                    large amplitude particles become unstable and
                                                                    are lost from the machine:
                                                                              poor lifetime
               F o rc e                                                       background

                                                                    THE INTERACTION OF THE BEAMS SETS A
                                                                        LIMIT ON THE BUNCH INTENSITY!
                                     Beam(-beam) n lens
                                      B eam - B eam Le se




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From arc to collision point
                                                     CMS
                                                   collision
                                                    point




                           ARC cells                           ARC cells




                                                                           Fits through the
                                                                           hole of a needle!




      Collision point size @ 7 TeV, β* = 0.5 m (= β-function at the collision point):
           CMS & ATLAS :                   16 µm
      Collision point size @ 3.5 TeV, β* = 2 m:
           All points :                    45 µm

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Limits to β*
        The more one squeezes the beam at the IP (smaller β*) the larger it becomes
          in the surrounding quadrupoles (‘triplets’):

                                     Small size
                                                                 Smaller the size at IP:
                Huge size !!
                                                                  Larger divergence (phase
                                                                  space conservation !)
                                                  Huge size !!    Faster beam size growth in
                                                                  the space from IP to first
                                                                  quadrupole !


                                                                   Aperture in the ‘triplet’
                                                                 quadrupoles around the IR
                                                                    limits the focusing !




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Combining the beams for collisions
                  quadrupole                                                                                                 quadrupole
                  Q4                                                                                                         Q4
           quadrupole      recombination        separation    inner quadrupole     inner quadrupole separation   recombination       quadrupole
           Q5              dipole               dipole (warm) triplet              triplet          dipole       dipole              Q5



                                      beam II                            ATLAS
                                                                         or CMS
beam
distance
194 mm


                                       beam I



                                                                                 collision point

                                                                        24 m
                                           200 m


                 Example for an LHC insertion with ATLAS or CMS
            The 2 LHC beams must be brought together to collide.
            Over ~260 m, the beams circulate in the same vacuum chamber. They are
              ~120 long distance beam encounters in total in the 4 IRs.

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Crossing angles
       Since every collision adds to our ‘Beam-beam budget’ we must avoid un-necessary
         direct beam encounters where the beams share a common vacuum:
                           COLLIDE WITH A CROSSING ANGLE IN ONE PLANE !
       There is a price to pay - a reduction of the luminosity due to the finite bunch length and
         the non-head on collisions:
                                            L reduction of ~17%

                                           IP




                                                                      Crossing planes & angles
                                                                      •ATLAS     Vertical    280 µrad
            7.5 m                                                     •CMS       Horizontal 280 µrad
                                                                      •LHCb      Horizontal 300 µrad
                                                                      •ALICE     Vertical    400 µrad




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Separation and crossing : example of ATLAS
              Horizontal plane: the beams are combined and then separated


        194 mm                                   ATLAS IP



                                                  ~ 260 m

                                           Common vacuum chamber

        Vertical plane: the beams are deflected to produce a crossing angle at the IP


     Not to scale !
                                                                        ~ 7 mm




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Tevatron




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Tevatron


    CDF
           D0
Tevatron I
          The Tevatron is presently the ‘energy frontier’ collider in operation at FNAL, with a
           beam energy of 980 GeV and a size of ~ ¼LHC (about same size than SPS).
          It is the first super-conducting collider ever build.
          It collides proton and anti-proton bunches that circulate in opposite directions in the
           SAME vacuum chamber.
          One of the problems at the TEVATRON are the long-distance encounters of the
           bunches in the arc sections. A complicated separation scheme with electrostatic
           elements has to be used:


                                           Tricky to operate !!




                       E                                               E



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Tevatron II
          The Tevatron has undergone a number of remarkable upgrades and it presently
           collides 36 proton with 36 anti-proton bunches (k=36), with bunch populations (N)
           similar to the ones of the LHC (but there are always fewer anti-protons !).

          Compare LHC and Tevatron:
                                                         kN 2 f
                                                     L=
                                                        4πσ xσ *
                                                            *
                                                                y


             fTevatron ≈ 4 fLHC             Tevatron gets a factor 4 ‘for free’ due to ring size !!


             kLHC ≈ 100 kTevatron                              LLHC ≈ 30 LTevatron

             N2/(σx σy) ~ equal

                                  Luminosity gain of LHC comes basically from
                                         the number of bunches (k) !!


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Injection and injector complex




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Beam 2
                                                         5
    Beam 1                         4             LHC                            6

                                                                                             7
                    3

                                                                                       TI8
                             2                     SPS                                                 8
                                 TI2



      protons        Booster                            1
   LINACS                                                      Top energy/GeV       Circumference/m
                                           CPS
           Ions                                        Linac         0.05            30
                                                       PSB           1.4             157
                                                       CPS          26               628 = 4 PSB
                                                       SPS         450               6’911 = 11 x PS
                                       LEIR            LHC        7000               26’657 = 27/7 x
                                                       SPS
                            Note the energy gain/machine of 10 to 20.
                        The gain is typical for the useful range of magnets.

J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                                                   55
Principle of injector cycling
          The beams are handed from one accel. to the next or used for its own customers !

          B field                          SPS top energy,
                                             prepare for
                                   SPS       transfer …      Beam transfer
                                   ramp
                  SPS waits at
                 injection to be
                   filled by PS                                                      SPS
B field
                                                                                          time




                                                                             PS

   B
                                                                                   time




                                                                             PS Booster

                                                                                  time
J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                                         56
Principle of injection (and extraction)
                                                                          Circulating
                                                                             beam
                                                                                        Kicker B-field
           Injected beam
                                                                                               Injecte
                                                                                               d beam
                           Septum magnet


                                           B                                            time
                                                     Kicker magnet
                                                                      B
         Circulating beam
                                                     Kicker magnet


        A septum dipole magnet (with thin coil) is used to bring the injected beam close to
         the circulating beam.
        A fast pulsing dipole magnet (‘kicker’) is fired synchronously with the arrival of the
         injected beam: deflects the injected beam onto the circulating beam path.
                    ‘Stack’ the injected beams one behind the other.
        At the LHC the septum deflects in the horizontal plane, the kicker in the vertical plane
         (to fit to the geometry of the tunnels).
        Extraction is identical, but the process is reversed !



J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                                                 57
Linac2




Radio-frequency                                                 Alvarez’s drift-tube
quadrupole (RFQ)




            Delivered beam current:        ~150mA
            Beam energy:                   90 keV (source) → 750 keV (RFQ) → 50 MeV
            Repetition rate:               1 Hz
            Radio-frequency system:        202 MHz
J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                               58
PS Booster




             Constructed in the 70ies to increase the intensity into the PS
             Made of four stacked rings
             Acceleration to E kin=1.4 GeV
             Intensities > 10 13 protons per ring.




J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                       59
Filling the PS with LHC beams




         Rings 2,3 & 4 are filled with 2 bunches per ring.
         The 6 bunches are transferred to the PS.




                                              x3



J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                      60
Proton Synchrotron




 Recently celebrated its first 50 years!!

J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010             61
Bunch Splitting at the PS
         The bunch splitting in the PS is probably the most delicate manipulation for the
          production of LHC beams – multiple RF systems with different frequencies:
            from 6 injected to 72 extracted bunches
         The quality of the splitting is critical for the LHC (uniform intensity in all bunches…).

  PS ejection:              320 ns beam gap
                                                       72 bunches
  72 bunches                                            on h=84
   in 1 turn

                       Quadruple splitting
                           at 25 GeV


 Acceleration                                          18 bunches
  to 25 GeV                                             on h=21
                          Triple splitting
                            at 1.4 GeV



 PS injection:                                          6 bunches
 2+4 bunches                                              on h=7
                                              bucket
                                              Empty




  in 2 batches


J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010
                                                                                                      62
Super-Proton Synchrotron




J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010          63
SPS-to-LHC transfer lines




                                                Courtesy of J. Uythoven




J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                  64
Collision schemes
         The 400 MHz RF system provides 35’640 possible bunch positions
           (buckets) at a distance of 2.5 ns along the LHC circumference.
         A priori any of those positions could be filled with a bunch…
         The smallest bunch-to-bunch distance is fixed to 25 ns, which is also the
           nominal distance: max. number of bunches is 3564.
                    2.5 ns

                                                                                  …

                      25 ns
                                           = filled position   = bunch position



         In practice there are fewer bunches because holes must be provided for
           the fast pulsed magnets (kickers) used for injection and dump.
         But the LHC and its injectors are very flexible and can operate with many
           bunch patterns: from isolated bunches to trains.



J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                              65
Collision point symmetry
                                                             = collision point


                                                                    CMS
                                                                                  Symmetry
    ATLAS, ALICE and CMS are positioned                                            axis
      on the LEP symmetry axis (8 fold sym.)

    LHCb is displaced from the symmetry
      axis by 11.25 m <<-->> 37.5 ns.                   LHC

    For filling patterns with many bunches this
      is not an issue, but it becomes a bit tricky
      with few bunches.
                                                                                      LHCb
                                                                                               by m
                                                                                              d .25
                                                     Alice                                  ce
                                                                                          la 11
                                                                                        sp =
                                                                    Atlas             di ns
                                                                                   Cb 7.5
                                                                                 LH x 3
                                                                                   c

J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                                       66
Filling pattern example: 1x1
                                                         CMS
   With 1 bunch/beam, there are 2 collision
     points at opposite sides of the ring.

   Depending on their position along the
     circumference, the 2 bunches can be
     made to collide:
          in ATLAS and CMS,                        LHC
             OR
          in ALICE,
             OR
          in LHCb,
                                                                 LHCb
     but never in all experiments at the same
     time !!                                    Alice



                                                         Atlas

J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                67
(Some) LHC filling patterns
         Schema               Nominal bunch    No. bunches   Comment
                               distance (ns)

         43x43                        2025         43        No crossing angle required

         156x156                       525         156       No crossing angle required

         25 ns                         25         2808       Nominal p filling

         50 ns                         50         1404       2010-2011 run target
         Ion nominal                   100         592       Nominal ion filling

         Ion early                    1350         62        No crossing angle required


        With 43x43 and 156x156, some bunches are displaced (distance ≠ nominal)
          to balance the ALICE and LHCb luminosities.
        In the multi-bunch schemes (25, 50, 100 ns) there are larger gaps to
          accommodate fast injection magnets (‘kickers’) rise times.
        There is always a ≥ 3 µs long particle free gap for the beam dump kicker.


J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                                  68
Nominal filling pattern
        The nominal pattern consists of 39 groups of 72 bunches (spaced by 25 ns), with variable
         spacing to accommodate the rise times of the injection and extraction magnets (‘kickers’).



            72 bunches

                                                                                                τ5



                                  τ3


                                                           b=bunch, e=empty

              τ2


                        τ1


                                                                                                      69
J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010
Spare slides




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PS - bunch splitting




J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010              71
Injection elements
                                12 mrad
      TED




                                           0.8 mrad




      TED
        From the LHC Page1



J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010               72
Role of the TDI collimator




       The TDI is one of the key injection protection collimators:
       Protects the machine in case of (1) missing kicks on injected beam and (2)
       asynchronous kicker firing on the circulating beam.
       It must be closed around the circulating beam trajectory when the kicker is ON.
J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010                                                 73

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Lhc construction & operation

  • 1. LHC : construction and operation Jö Wenninger rg CERN Beams Department / Operation group LNF Spring School 'Bruno Touschek' - May 2010 Part 1: •Introduction to accelerator physics •LHC magnet and layout •Luminosity and interaction regions •Injection and filling schemes J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 1
  • 2. Outline • The LHC challenges • Introduction to magnets and particle focusing • LHC magnets and arc layout Part 1 • LHC luminosity and interaction regions • Injection and filling schemes • Machine protection Part 2 • Incident 19th Sept. 2008 and consequences • LHC operation J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 2
  • 3. LHC History 1982 : First studies for the LHC project 1983 : Z0/W discovered at SPS proton antiproton collider (SppbarS) 1989 : Start of LEP operation (Z/W boson-factory) 1994 : Approval of the LHC by the CERN Council 1996 : Final decision to start the LHC construction 2000 : Last year of LEP operation above 100 GeV 2002 : LEP equipment removed 2003 : Start of LHC installation 2005 : Start of LHC hardware commissioning 2008 : Start of (short) beam commissioning Powering incident on 19th Sept. 2009 : Repair, re-commissioning and beam commissioning 2010 : Start of a 2 year run at 3.5 TeV/beam J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 3
  • 4. The Large Hadron Collider LHC Installed in the 26.7 km LEP tunnel Depth of 70-140 m Lake of Geneva g C rin LH CMS, Totem LHCb Control Room SP S r ing ATLAS, LHCf ALICE 4 17.03.2010 Der LHC
  • 5. Tunnel circumference 26.7 km, tunnel diameter 3.8 m Depth : ~ 70-140 m – tunnel is inclined by ~ 1.4% J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 5
  • 6. LHC Layout 8 arcs. IR5:CMS 8 straight sections (LSS), 2 Beam dump m ea blocks ~ 700 m long. B 1 The beams exchange their e am B IR6: Beam positions (inside/outside) in 4 points to ensure that both rings IR4: RF + Beam dumping system have the same circumference ! instrumentation IR3: Momentum IR7: Betatron collimation (normal collimation (normal conducting magnets) conducting magnets) IR8: LHC-B IR2:ALICE IR1: ATLAS Injection ring 1 Injection ring 2 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 6
  • 7. LHC – yet another collider? The LHC surpasses existing accelerators/colliders in 2 aspects :  The energy of the beam of 7 TeV that is achieved within the size constraints of the existing 26.7 km LEP tunnel. LHC dipole field 8.3 T A factor 2 in field HERA/Tevatron ~4 T A factor 4 in size  The luminosity of the collider that will reach unprecedented values for a hadron machine: LHC pp ~ 1034 cm-2 s-1 A factor 30 Tevatron pp 3x10 cm s 32 -2 -1 in luminosity SppbarS pp 6x1030 cm-2 s-1 The combination of very high field magnets and very high beam intensities required to reach the luminosity targets makes operation of the LHC a great challenge ! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 7
  • 8. Luminosity challenges The event rate N for a physics process with cross-section σ is proprotional to the collider Luminosity L: N = Lσ k = number of bunches = 2808 N = no. protons per bunch = 1.15×10 11 kN 2 f f = revolution frequency = 11.25 kHz L= σ * x, σ * y = beam sizes at collision point (hor./vert.) = 16 µ m 4πσ xσ * * y To maximize L: High beam “brillance” N/ ε • Many bunches (k) (particles per phase space • Many protons per bunch (N) volume) • A small beam size σ * u = ( β * ε ) 1/2  Injector chain performance ! Small envelope β * : the beam envelope (optics) Optics  Strong focusing ! ε : is the phase space volume occupied property Beam property by the beam (constant along the ring). J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 8
  • 9. Basics of accelerator physics J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 9
  • 10. Accelerator concept Charged particles are accelerated, guided and confined by electromagnetic fields. - Bending: Dipole magnets - Focusing: Quadrupole magnets - Acceleration: RF cavities In synchrotrons, they are ramped together synchronously to match beam energy. - Chromatic aberration: Sextupole magnets J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 10
  • 11. Bending → → → → Force Lorentz force Magnetic rigidity LHC: ρ = 2.8 km given by LEP tunnel! To reach p = 7 TeV/c given a bending radius of ρ = 2805 m:  Bending field : B = 8.33 Tesla  Superconducting magnets To collide two counter-rotating proton beams, the beams must be in separate vaccum chambers (in the bending sections) with opposite B field direction.  There are actually 2 LHCs and the magnets have a 2-magnets-in-one design! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 11
  • 12. Bending Fields I II B B field p B F force F p Two-in-one magnet design J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 12
  • 13. Focusing N S F By y F x S N Transverse focusing is achieved with quadrupole x magnets, which act on the beam like an optical lens. Linear increase of the magnetic field along the axes (no effect on particles on axis). y Focusing in one plane, de-focusing in the other! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 13
  • 14. Accelerator lattice horizontal plane Focusing in both planes is achieved by a succession of focusing and de-focusing quadrupole magnets : The FODO structure vertical plane 14
  • 15. Alternating gradient lattice One can find an arrangement of quadrupole magnets that provides net focusing in both planes (“strong focusing”). Dipole magnets keep the particles on the circular orbit. Quadrupole magnets focus alternatively in both planes. The lattice effectively constitutes a s particle trap! y x J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 15
  • 16. LHC arc lattice QF dipole decapole QD sextupole QF magnets magnets magnets small sextupole corrector magnets LHC Cell - Length about 110 m (schematic layout)  Dipole- und Quadrupol magnets – Provide a stable trajectory for particles with nominal momentum.  Sextupole magnets – Correct the trajectories for off momentum particles (‚chromatic‘ errors).  Multipole-corrector magnets – Sextupole - and decapole corrector magnets at end of dipoles – Used to compensate field imperfections if the dipole magnets. To stabilize trajectories for particles at larger amplitudes – beam lifetime ! One rarely talks about the multi-pole magnets, but they are essential for good machine performance ! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 16
  • 17. Beam envelope  The focusing structure (mostly defined by the quadrupoles: gradient, length, number, distance) defines the transverse beam envelope.  The function that describes the beam envelope is the so-called ‘β’-function (betatron function): • In the LHC arcs the optics follows a regular pattern – regular FODO structure. • In the long straight sections, the betatron function is less regular to fulfill various constraints: injection, collision point focusing… QF QD QF QD QF QD QF The envelope peaks in the focusing elements ! Vertical Horizontal Betatron functions in a simple FODO cell J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 17
  • 18. Beam emittance and beam size  For an ensemble of particles: The transverse emittance , ε, is the area of the phase-space ellipse. Beam size = projection on X (Y) axis.  The beam size σ at any point along the accelerator is given by (neglecting the contribution from energy spread): σ = Envelope × Emittance = β ε For unperturbed proton beams, the normalized emittance ε n is conserved: ε n = εγ = constant γ = Lorentz factor The beam size shrinks with β εn 1 energy: σ= ∝ γ γ J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 18
  • 19. Why does the transverse emittance shrink?  The acceleration is purely longitudinal, i.e the transverse momentum is not affected: pt = constant  The emittance is nothing but a measure of <pt>.  To maintain the focusing strength, all magnetic fields are kept proportional to E (γ), including the quadrupole gradients.  Withconstant <pt> and increasing quadrupole gradients, the transverse excursion of the particles becomes smaller and smaller ! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 19
  • 20. LHC beam sizes  Beta-function at the LHC β = 0.5 ÷ 5'000 m β = 30 ÷ 180 m ARC  Nominal LHC normalized emittance : εn = εγ = 3.5 µm Example LHC arc, peak β = 180 m Energy ε (nm) σ (mm) (GeV) 450 7.2 1.14 3500 0.93 0.41 7000 0.47 0.29 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 20
  • 21. Acceleration  Acceleration is performed with electric fields fed into Radio-Frequency (RF) cavities. RF cavities are basically resonators tuned to a selected frequency.  To accelerate a proton to 7 TeV, a 7 TV potential must be provided to the beam:  In circular accelerators the acceleration is done in small steps, turn after turn.  At the LHC the acceleration from 450 GeV to 7 TeV lasts ~20 minutes, with an average energy gain of ~0.5 MeV on each turn.  E(t ) s 21 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010
  • 22. LHC RF system  The LHC RF system operates at 400 MHz.  It is composed of 16 superconducting cavities, 8 per beam.  Peak accelerating voltage of 16 MV/beam. For LEP at 104 GeV : 3600 MV/beam ! Synchrotron radiation loss LHC @ 3.5 TeV 0.42 keV/turn LHC @ 7 TeV 6.7 keV /turn LEP @ 104 GeV ~3 GeV /turn The nominal LHC beam radiates a sufficient amount of visible photons to be actually observable ! (total power ~ 0.2 W/m) J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 22
  • 23. Visible protons !  Some of the energy radiation by the LHC protons is emitted as visible light. It can be extracted with a set of mirrors to image the beams in real time.  This is a powerful tool to understand the beam size evolution. Protons are very sensitive to perturbations, keeping their emittance small is always a challenge. Flying wire LHC Synch. light Flying wire SPS (injector) J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 23
  • 24. Cavities in the tunnel J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 24
  • 25. RF buckets and bunches The particles oscillate back The particles are trapped in the RF voltage: RF Voltage and forth in this gives the bunch structure time/energy 2.5 ns time ∆E LHC bunch spacing = 25 ns = 10 buckets ⇔ 7.5 m RF bucket time 2.5 ns 450 GeV 3.5 TeV RMS bunch length 12.8 cm 5.8 cm RMS energy spread 0.031% 0.02% J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 25
  • 26. Magnets & Tunnel J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 26
  • 27. Superconductivity  The very high DIPOLE field of 8.3 Tesla required to achieve 7 TeV/c can only be obtained with superconducting magnets !  The material determines: Tc critical temperature Bc critical field  The cable production determines: Jc critical current density  Lower temperature ⇒ increased current density ⇒ higher fields. Bc Applied field [T]  Typical for NbTi @ 4.2 K Normal state 2000 A/mm2 @ 6T  To reach 8-10 T, the temperature must be lowered Superconducting to 1.9 K – superfluid Helium ! state Tc Temperature [K] J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 27
  • 28. The superconducting cable ∅6 µm ∅1 mm A.Verweij Typical value for operation at 8T and 1.9 K: 800 A width 15 mm Rutherford cable A.Verweij J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 28
  • 29. Coils for dipoles Dipole length 15 m I = 11’800 A @ 8.3 T The coils must be aligned very precisely to ensure a good field quality (i.e. ‘pure’ dipole) J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 29
  • 30. Ferromagnetic iron Non-magnetic collars Superconducting coil Beam tube Steel cylinder for Helium Insulation vacuum Vacuum tank Supports Weight (magnet + cryostat) ~ 30 tons, length 15 m J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 30 Rüdiger Schmidt 30
  • 31. Regular arc: Magnets 1232 main dipoles + 3700 multipole 392 main quadrupoles + corrector 2500 corrector magnets magnets (dipole, sextupole, octupole) (sextupole, octupole, J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 decapole) J. Wenninger - ETHZ - December 2005 31 31
  • 32. Regular arc: Connection via service module and Cryogenics jumper Static bath of superfluid Supply and recovery of helium at 1.9 K in cooling helium with 26 km long loops of 110 m length cryogenic distribution line J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 J. Wenninger - ETHZ - December 2005 32 32
  • 33. Regular arc: Beam vacuum for Beam 1 + Beam Vacuum 2 Insulation vacuum for the Insulation vacuum for magnet cryostats the cryogenic distribution line J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 J. Wenninger - ETHZ - December 2005 33 33
  • 34. Tunnel view (1) J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 34
  • 35. Tunnel view (2) J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 35
  • 36. Complex interconnects Many complex connections of super-conducting cable that will be buried in a cryostat once the work is finished. This SC cable carries 12’000 A for the main quadrupole magnets J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 CERN visit McEwen 36
  • 37. Magnet cooling scheme 10000 SOLID 1000 CRITICAL POINT λ line HeII HeI P [kPa] 100 Pressurized He II GAS 10 Saturated He II 1 1 10 T [K]  He II: super-fluid o Very low viscosity o Very high thermal conductivity Courtesy S. Claudet J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 37
  • 38. Cryogenics Pt 5 Pt 4 Pt 6 8 x 18kW @ 4.5 K 1’800 SC magnets Pt 3 24 km & 20 Distribution Cryoplant kW @ 1.8 K Pt 7 Present Version 36’000 t @ 1.9K 130 t He inventory Pt 2 Pt 8 Pt 1.8 Pt 1 Cryogenic plant Courtesy S. Claudet Grid power ~32 MW J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 38
  • 39. Cool down First cool-down of LHC sectors Cool-down time to 1.9 K is nowadays ~4 weeks/sector [sector = 1/8 LHC] 300 250 Temperature [K] 200 150 100 50 0 12- 10- 07- 04- 03- 31- 28- 26- 23- 21-Jul- 18- 15- Nov- Dec- Jan- Feb- Mar- Mar- Apr- May- Jun- 2008 Aug- Sep- 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 ARC56_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC78_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC81_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC23_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC67_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC34_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC12_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST ARC45_MAGS_TTAVG.POSST J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 39
  • 40. Vacuum chamber  The beams circulate in two ultra-high vacuum chambers, P ~ 10-10 mbar. 50 mm  A Copper beam screen protects the bore of the magnet from heat deposition due to image currents, synchrotron light etc from the beam.  The beam screen is cooled to T = 4-20 K. 36 mm Beam screen Magnet bore Cooling channel (Helium) Beam envel (± 4 σ) ~ 1.8 mm @ 7 TeV J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 40
  • 41. Luminosity and interaction regions J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 41
  • 42. Luminosity Let us look at the different factors in this formula, and what we can do to maximize L, and what limitations we may encounter !! kN 2 f L= 4πσ xσ * * y  f : the revolution frequency is given by the circumference, f=11.246 kHz.  N : the bunch population – N=1.15x1011 protons - Injectors (brighter beams) - Collective interactions of the particles - Beam encounters  k : the number of bunches – k=2808 For k = 1: - Injectors (more beam) L = 3.5 × 1030 cm −2 s −1 - Collective interactions of the particles - Interaction regions - Beam encounters  σ* : the size at the collision point – σ*y=σ*x=16 µm - Injectors (brighter beams) - More focusing – stronger quadrupoles J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 42
  • 43. Collective (in-)stability  The electromagnetic fields of a bunch interact with the vacuum chamber walls (finite resistivity !), cavities, discontinuities etc that it encounters:  The fields act back on the bunch itself or on following bunches.  Since the fields induced by of a bunch increase with bunch intensity, the bunches may become COLLECTIVELY unstable beyond a certain intensity, leading to poor lifetime or massive looses intensity loss.  Such effects can be very strong in the LHC injectors, and they will also affect the LHC – in particular because we have a lot of carbon collimators (see later) that have a very bad influence on beam stability !  limits the intensity per bunch and per beam ! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 43
  • 44. ‘Beam-beam’ interaction Y  When a particle of one beam encounters the opposing beam at the collision point, it senses the fields of the opposing beam.  Due to the typically Gaussian shape of the F o rc e beams in the transverse direction, the field (force) on this particle is non-linear, in particular at large amplitudes. Quadrupole e lens focal length depends on amplitude ! Q u a d r u p o le L n s e  The effect of the non-linear fields can become Y so strong (when the beams are intense) that large amplitude particles become unstable and are lost from the machine:  poor lifetime F o rc e  background THE INTERACTION OF THE BEAMS SETS A LIMIT ON THE BUNCH INTENSITY! Beam(-beam) n lens B eam - B eam Le se J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 44
  • 45. From arc to collision point CMS collision point ARC cells ARC cells Fits through the hole of a needle!  Collision point size @ 7 TeV, β* = 0.5 m (= β-function at the collision point): CMS & ATLAS : 16 µm  Collision point size @ 3.5 TeV, β* = 2 m: All points : 45 µm J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 45
  • 46. Limits to β*  The more one squeezes the beam at the IP (smaller β*) the larger it becomes in the surrounding quadrupoles (‘triplets’): Small size Smaller the size at IP: Huge size !!  Larger divergence (phase space conservation !) Huge size !!  Faster beam size growth in the space from IP to first quadrupole ! Aperture in the ‘triplet’ quadrupoles around the IR limits the focusing ! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 46
  • 47. Combining the beams for collisions quadrupole quadrupole Q4 Q4 quadrupole recombination separation inner quadrupole inner quadrupole separation recombination quadrupole Q5 dipole dipole (warm) triplet triplet dipole dipole Q5 beam II ATLAS or CMS beam distance 194 mm beam I collision point 24 m 200 m Example for an LHC insertion with ATLAS or CMS  The 2 LHC beams must be brought together to collide.  Over ~260 m, the beams circulate in the same vacuum chamber. They are ~120 long distance beam encounters in total in the 4 IRs. J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 47
  • 48. Crossing angles  Since every collision adds to our ‘Beam-beam budget’ we must avoid un-necessary direct beam encounters where the beams share a common vacuum: COLLIDE WITH A CROSSING ANGLE IN ONE PLANE !  There is a price to pay - a reduction of the luminosity due to the finite bunch length and the non-head on collisions: L reduction of ~17% IP Crossing planes & angles •ATLAS Vertical 280 µrad 7.5 m •CMS Horizontal 280 µrad •LHCb Horizontal 300 µrad •ALICE Vertical 400 µrad J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 48
  • 49. Separation and crossing : example of ATLAS Horizontal plane: the beams are combined and then separated 194 mm ATLAS IP ~ 260 m Common vacuum chamber Vertical plane: the beams are deflected to produce a crossing angle at the IP Not to scale ! ~ 7 mm J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 49
  • 50. Tevatron J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 50
  • 51. Tevatron CDF D0
  • 52. Tevatron I  The Tevatron is presently the ‘energy frontier’ collider in operation at FNAL, with a beam energy of 980 GeV and a size of ~ ¼LHC (about same size than SPS).  It is the first super-conducting collider ever build.  It collides proton and anti-proton bunches that circulate in opposite directions in the SAME vacuum chamber.  One of the problems at the TEVATRON are the long-distance encounters of the bunches in the arc sections. A complicated separation scheme with electrostatic elements has to be used: Tricky to operate !! E E 52 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010
  • 53. Tevatron II  The Tevatron has undergone a number of remarkable upgrades and it presently collides 36 proton with 36 anti-proton bunches (k=36), with bunch populations (N) similar to the ones of the LHC (but there are always fewer anti-protons !).  Compare LHC and Tevatron: kN 2 f L= 4πσ xσ * * y fTevatron ≈ 4 fLHC Tevatron gets a factor 4 ‘for free’ due to ring size !! kLHC ≈ 100 kTevatron LLHC ≈ 30 LTevatron N2/(σx σy) ~ equal Luminosity gain of LHC comes basically from the number of bunches (k) !! 53 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010
  • 54. Injection and injector complex J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 54
  • 55. Beam 2 5 Beam 1 4 LHC 6 7 3 TI8 2 SPS 8 TI2 protons Booster 1 LINACS Top energy/GeV Circumference/m CPS Ions Linac 0.05 30 PSB 1.4 157 CPS 26 628 = 4 PSB SPS 450 6’911 = 11 x PS LEIR LHC 7000 26’657 = 27/7 x SPS Note the energy gain/machine of 10 to 20. The gain is typical for the useful range of magnets. J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 55
  • 56. Principle of injector cycling The beams are handed from one accel. to the next or used for its own customers ! B field SPS top energy, prepare for SPS transfer … Beam transfer ramp SPS waits at injection to be filled by PS SPS B field time PS B time PS Booster time J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 56
  • 57. Principle of injection (and extraction) Circulating beam Kicker B-field Injected beam Injecte d beam Septum magnet B time Kicker magnet B Circulating beam Kicker magnet  A septum dipole magnet (with thin coil) is used to bring the injected beam close to the circulating beam.  A fast pulsing dipole magnet (‘kicker’) is fired synchronously with the arrival of the injected beam: deflects the injected beam onto the circulating beam path.  ‘Stack’ the injected beams one behind the other.  At the LHC the septum deflects in the horizontal plane, the kicker in the vertical plane (to fit to the geometry of the tunnels).  Extraction is identical, but the process is reversed ! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 57
  • 58. Linac2 Radio-frequency Alvarez’s drift-tube quadrupole (RFQ) Delivered beam current: ~150mA Beam energy: 90 keV (source) → 750 keV (RFQ) → 50 MeV Repetition rate: 1 Hz Radio-frequency system: 202 MHz J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 58
  • 59. PS Booster  Constructed in the 70ies to increase the intensity into the PS  Made of four stacked rings  Acceleration to E kin=1.4 GeV  Intensities > 10 13 protons per ring. J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 59
  • 60. Filling the PS with LHC beams  Rings 2,3 & 4 are filled with 2 bunches per ring.  The 6 bunches are transferred to the PS. x3 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 60
  • 61. Proton Synchrotron Recently celebrated its first 50 years!! J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 61
  • 62. Bunch Splitting at the PS  The bunch splitting in the PS is probably the most delicate manipulation for the production of LHC beams – multiple RF systems with different frequencies: from 6 injected to 72 extracted bunches  The quality of the splitting is critical for the LHC (uniform intensity in all bunches…). PS ejection: 320 ns beam gap 72 bunches 72 bunches on h=84 in 1 turn Quadruple splitting at 25 GeV Acceleration 18 bunches to 25 GeV on h=21 Triple splitting at 1.4 GeV PS injection: 6 bunches 2+4 bunches on h=7 bucket Empty in 2 batches J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 62
  • 63. Super-Proton Synchrotron J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 63
  • 64. SPS-to-LHC transfer lines Courtesy of J. Uythoven J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 64
  • 65. Collision schemes  The 400 MHz RF system provides 35’640 possible bunch positions (buckets) at a distance of 2.5 ns along the LHC circumference.  A priori any of those positions could be filled with a bunch…  The smallest bunch-to-bunch distance is fixed to 25 ns, which is also the nominal distance: max. number of bunches is 3564. 2.5 ns … 25 ns = filled position = bunch position  In practice there are fewer bunches because holes must be provided for the fast pulsed magnets (kickers) used for injection and dump.  But the LHC and its injectors are very flexible and can operate with many bunch patterns: from isolated bunches to trains. J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 65
  • 66. Collision point symmetry = collision point CMS Symmetry  ATLAS, ALICE and CMS are positioned axis on the LEP symmetry axis (8 fold sym.)  LHCb is displaced from the symmetry axis by 11.25 m <<-->> 37.5 ns. LHC  For filling patterns with many bunches this is not an issue, but it becomes a bit tricky with few bunches. LHCb by m d .25 Alice ce la 11 sp = Atlas di ns Cb 7.5 LH x 3 c J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 66
  • 67. Filling pattern example: 1x1 CMS  With 1 bunch/beam, there are 2 collision points at opposite sides of the ring.  Depending on their position along the circumference, the 2 bunches can be made to collide: in ATLAS and CMS, LHC OR in ALICE, OR in LHCb, LHCb but never in all experiments at the same time !! Alice Atlas J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 67
  • 68. (Some) LHC filling patterns Schema Nominal bunch No. bunches Comment distance (ns) 43x43 2025 43 No crossing angle required 156x156 525 156 No crossing angle required 25 ns 25 2808 Nominal p filling 50 ns 50 1404 2010-2011 run target Ion nominal 100 592 Nominal ion filling Ion early 1350 62 No crossing angle required  With 43x43 and 156x156, some bunches are displaced (distance ≠ nominal) to balance the ALICE and LHCb luminosities.  In the multi-bunch schemes (25, 50, 100 ns) there are larger gaps to accommodate fast injection magnets (‘kickers’) rise times.  There is always a ≥ 3 µs long particle free gap for the beam dump kicker. J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 68
  • 69. Nominal filling pattern  The nominal pattern consists of 39 groups of 72 bunches (spaced by 25 ns), with variable spacing to accommodate the rise times of the injection and extraction magnets (‘kickers’). 72 bunches τ5 τ3 b=bunch, e=empty τ2 τ1 69 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010
  • 70. Spare slides J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 70
  • 71. PS - bunch splitting J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 71
  • 72. Injection elements 12 mrad TED 0.8 mrad TED From the LHC Page1 J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 72
  • 73. Role of the TDI collimator The TDI is one of the key injection protection collimators: Protects the machine in case of (1) missing kicks on injected beam and (2) asynchronous kicker firing on the circulating beam. It must be closed around the circulating beam trajectory when the kicker is ON. J. Wenninger LNF Spring School, May 2010 73