Beam-beam effects in a collider with a large number of bunches
by
Tatiana Pieloni(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and PSI)
→
Europe/Zurich
AB Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)
AB Auditorium Meyrin
CERN
Description
The understanding and control of the Beam-Beam Interactions (BBIs) in
particle colliders is fundamental to preserve beam stability and achieve
the optimum collider performance.
In the case of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these forces
are experienced as localized periodic distortions when the two beams
cross each other in the four experimental areas.
The very large number of bunches in the LHC introduce new effects and
their study becomes a challenging task.
The incoherent and coherent beam-beam effects for the LHC have been
addressed in a fully self consistent treatment. Complementary numerical
and analytical tools have been developed to predict bunch to
bunch effects and the objectives are a better understanding of these
effects and to provide fast numerical tools to interpret the
observations of single bunch measurements during the operation of the
collider and to improve its performance. The numerical predictability
of bunch to bunch differences has been demonstrated and the predictions
have been compared with experimental data from the Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider (RHIC).