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Luminosity Scans for Beam Diagnostics

Accelerator Physics 2018-10-17 v3

Abstract

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 fill with full-intensity beams in physics production conditions at the Interaction Point (IP) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. They provide both emittance and closed orbit measurements at a bunch-by-bunch level. The precise measurement of beam-beam closed orbit differences allowed a direct, quantitative observation of long-range beam-beam PACMAN effects, which agrees well with numerical simulations from an improved version of the TRAIN code.

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@article{arxiv.1804.10099,
  title  = {Luminosity Scans for Beam Diagnostics},
  author = {Michael Hostettler and Kajetan Fuchsberger and Giulia Papotti and Tatiana Pieloni and Yannis Papaphilippou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10099},
  year   = {2018}
}
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