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Changes to the Transfer Line Collimation System for the High-Luminosity LHC Beams
Verena Kain, O. Aberle, Chiara Bracco, Matthew Fraser, Frederic Galleazzi, Eliana Gianfelice-Wendt, A. Kosmicki, Fausto Maciariello, M. Meddahi, François‐Xavier Nuiry, Genevieve Steele, Francesco Maria Velotti
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Abstract
The current LHC transfer line collimation system will not be able to provide enough protection for the high brightness beams in the high-luminosity LHC era. The new collimation system will have to attenuate more and be more robust than its predecessor. The active jaw length of the new transfer line collimators will therefore be 2.1 m instead of currently 1.2 m. The transfer line optics will have to be adjusted for the new collimator locations and larger beta functions at the collimators for absorber robustness reasons. In this paper the new design of the transfer line collimation system will be presented with its implications on transfer line optics and powering, maintainability, protection of transfer line magnets in case of beam loss on a collimator and protection of the LHC aperture
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