LHC optics commissioning: A journey towards 1% optics control

Since 2015 the LHC has been operating at 6.5 TeV. In 2016 the β-functions at the interaction points of ATLAS and CMS were squeezed to 0.4 m. This is below the design β^{*}=0.55  m at 7 TeV, and has been instrumental to surpass the design luminosity of 10^{34}  cm^{-2} s^{-1}. Achieving a lower than...

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Main Authors: T. Persson, F. Carlier, J. Coello de Portugal, A. Garcia-Tabares Valdivieso, A. Langner, E. H. Maclean, L. Malina, P. Skowronski, B. Salvant, R. Tomás, A. C. García Bonilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017-06-01
Series:Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.061002