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11835005
Title
Successive approximation algorithm for beam-position-monitor-based LHC collimator alignment
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G Valentino (CERN and University of Malta)
,
A Nosych (CERN, Liverpool U, and Cockcroft Inst.)
,
R Bruce (CERN)
,
M Gasior (CERN)
,
D Mirarchi (CERN)
,
S Redaelli (CERN)
,
B Salvachua (CERN)
,
D Wollmann (CERN)
Abstract
Collimators with embedded beam position monitor (BPM) button electrodes will be installed in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during the current long shutdown period. For the subsequent operation, BPMs will allow the collimator jaws to be kept centered around the beam orbit. In this manner, a better beam cleaning efficiency and machine protection can be provided at unprecedented higher beam energies and intensities. A collimator alignment algorithm is proposed to center the jaws automatically around the beam. The algorithm is based on successive approximation and takes into account a correction of the nonlinear BPM sensitivity to beam displacement and an asymmetry of the electronic channels processing the BPM electrode signals. A software implementation was tested with a prototype collimator in the Super Proton Synchrotron. This paper presents results of the tests along with some considerations for eventual operation in the LHC.
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Phys Rev Spec Top-Ac
17, no. 2 (2014): 021005.
doi:10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.021005
2014
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