Layout and Optics Solution for the LHC Insertion Upgrade Phase I

The main guidelines of the LHC insertion (IR) upgrade Phase I are 1) the development of wider aperture (120 mm) and lower gradient (~120 T/m) quadrupoles using the well-characterized Nb-Ti technology in order to replace the existing inner triplets (IT) equipping the ATLAS and CMS high-luminosity IRs of the LHC, 2) while maximizing the use of the current LHC infrastructure, in particular leaving unchanged the so-called "matching sections" (MS) and "dispersion suppressors" (DS) of these two insertions. One of the initial goals was to be able to squeeze the optics up to a β^{*} of 25 cm. However, optics solutions with a β^{*} of 30 cm seems already to be at edge of achievability, both in terms of the IT and MS mechanical acceptance, gradients of the MS and DS quadrupole magnets, and correctability by the LHC arc sextupoles of the huge chromatic aberrations induced by the new inner triplet at ultimate β^{*}. The layout of the new inner triplet and the corresponding injection and collision optics will be presented and analyzed both in terms of aperture, squeeze-ability and chromatic correction.