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pyTRAIN -- a modern TRAIN implementation
Michi Hostettler, Xavier Buffat, Tobias Persson +2
The TRAIN code, developed in 1995 as a post-processor for second-order transport maps from MAD, has been used extensively at the LEP and the LHC to study self-consistent closed orb…
MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters
Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459
This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…
The Muon Collider
Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450
Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…
Incoherent horizontal emittance growth due to the interplay of beam-beam and longitudinal wakefield in crab-waist colliders
Peter Kicsiny, Demin Zhou, Xavier Buffat +2
In this paper, we investigate quadrupolar sychrobetatron resonances caused by beam-beam collisions and their interplay with longitudinal wakefields in the context of crab-waist col…
MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters
Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391
This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…
Impact of beam asymmetries at the Future Circular Collider e+e-
Peter Kicsiny, Xavier Buffat, Khoi Le Nguyen Nguyen +2
In this paper we present detailed simulations with asymmetric initial beam settings in the context of the proposed Future Circular Collider e+e- (FCC-ee) using the Xsuite framework…
Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)
C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383
The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…
Impact of bunch intensity asymmetry in colliders featuring strong beamstrahlung
Khoi Le Nguyen Nguyen, Xavier Buffat, Peter Kicsiny +1
An analytical investigation of beamstrahlung-induced blow-up in Gaussian beams with arbitrary dimensions is presented, using various approximations for the strength of the hourglas…
Xsuite: an integrated beam physics simulation framework
G. Iadarola, R. De Maria, S. Lopaciuk +17
Xsuite is a newly developed modular simulation package combining in a single flexible and modern framework the capabilities of different tools developed at CERN in the past decades…
Impact of Beam-Beam Effects on Absolute Luminosity Calibrations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
A. Babaev, T. Barklow, O. Karacheban +9
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), absolute luminosity calibrations obtained by the van der Meer (vdM) method are affected by the mutual electromagnetic interaction of the two bea…
Data-driven modeling of beam loss in the LHC
Ekaterina Krymova, Guillaume Obozinski, Michael Schenk +2
In the Large Hadron Collider, the beam losses are continuously measured for machine protection. By design, most of the particle losses occur in the collimation system, where the pa…
Beam Measurements and Machine Learning at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
P. Arpaia, G. Azzopardi, F. Blanc +16
This paper presents a review of the recent Machine Learning activities carried out on beam measurements performed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. This paper has been accepted fo…
FCC-hh Experimental Insertion Region Design
Jose L. Abelleira, Robert B. Appleby, Sergey Arsenyev +29
The Future Circular Collider study is exploring possible designs of circular colliders for the post-LHC era, as recommended by the European Strategy Group for High Energy Physics.…
Luminosity Scans for Beam Diagnostics
Michael Hostettler, Kajetan Fuchsberger, Giulia Papotti +2
A new type of fast luminosity separation scans ("Emittance Scans") was introduced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2015. The scans were performed systematically in every…
Machine Layout and Performance
D. Angal-Kalinin, R. Appleby, G. Arduini +57
Chapter 2 in High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) : Preliminary Design Report. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest scientific instruments ever built. Si…
Beam-Beam Effects
W. Herr, T. Pieloni
One of the most severe limitations in high-intensity particle colliders is the beam-beam interaction, i.e. the perturbation of the beams as they cross the opposing beams. This intr…
Baseline LHC machine parameters and configuration of the 2015 proton run
R. Bruce, G. Arduini, S. Fartoukh +6
This paper shows the baseline LHC machine parameters for the 2015 start-up. Many systems have been upgraded during LS1 and in 2015 the LHC will operate at a higher energy than befo…
Coherent beam-beam mode in the LHC
X. Buffat, R. Calaga, R. Giachino +4
Observations of single bunch beam-beam coherent modes during dedicated experiments in the LHC are presented. Their role in standard operation for physics is discussed and, in parti…
Operational considerations on the stability of colliding beams
X. Buffat, W. Herr, T. Pieloni
While well studied in the absence of beam-beam and while colliding head-on, the stability of the LHC beams can be very critical in intermediate steps. During the squeeze, the long-…
Luminosity levelling techniques for the LHC
B. Muratori, T. Pieloni
We present the possibilities for doing luminosity levelling at the LHC. We explore the merits and drawbacks of each option and briefly discuss the operational implications. The sim…
Stability diagram of colliding beams
X. Buffat, W. Herr, N. Mounet +1
The effect of the beam-beam interactions on the stability of impedance mode is discussed. The detuning is evaluated by the means of single particle tracking in arbitrarily complex…
Long Range Beam-beam Effects in the LHC
W. Herr, X. Buffat, R. Calaga +4
We report on the experience with long-range beam--beam effects in the LHC, in dedicated studies as well as the experience from operation. Where possible, we compare the observation…
Observations of beam-beam effects at the LHC
G. Papotti, X. Buffat, W. Herr +2
This paper introduces a list of observations related to the beam-beam interaction that were collected over the first years of LHC proton physics operation (2010-12). Beam-beam rela…