Status and Outlook of the LHC
Enrico Bravin - CERN BE-BI
SPring-8 visit seminar26 June 2017
Outlook• Overview of LHC
• Objectives for run2
• Parameters for 2016/2017 and differences w.r.t. 2015
• Summary of commissioning and operation
• Performance and achievements of 2016 and 2017
• Peek at 2018 and beyond
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The Large Hadron Collider• Double ring of 27 km
circumference • Twin aperture superconducting
magnets • Designed to collide protons (and
heavy ions) at high energy (7 TeV) and high luminosity (1034 cm-2 s-1)
• 4 interaction points • LHC energy limited to 6.5 TeV by
the need to retrain the magnets • 200 quenches were needed to
reach 6.5 TeV • 300 more will be needed to
reach 7 TeV (postponed 2020)4
LHC and injectors
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Protons • Linac-2 50 MeV • Booster 1.4 GeV • PS 25 GeV • SPS 450 GeV • LHC 7 TeV
208Pb82+ • Linac-3 4.5 MeV/u • LEIR 72 MeV/u • PS 5.9 GeV/u • SPS 177 GeV/u • LHC 2.76 TeV/u
Beam parameters
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2012 2015 2016 2017 2018 Design
Energy [TeV] 4 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 7
Ibunch 1.7E+11 1.2E+11 1.1E+11 1.2E+11 1.2E+11 1.15E+11
Bunch spacing [ns] 50 50 / 25 25 25 25 25
Beta* [m] 60 80 40 40 *33 55
Crossing angle [urad] 290 290 370/280 300/240 340 290
# of bunches 1374 2244 2220 2556 2556 2808
Emittance [mm mrad] 3 3 2 2 2 3.5
Peak Luminosity [cm-2s-1] 7.7E+33 5E+33 1.4E+34 *1.7E34 *1.9E34 1E+34
Integrated Luminosity [fb-1] 23.1 4.5 40 *45 *45
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Run 2Run 1
Objectives for Run 2 • Run 2 main objective: 100 fb-1 p-p for ATLAS and CMS at
Ecm ≥ 13TeV
• 2015: Recommission the machine after LS1 at Ebeam= 6.5TeV
• Target 5 fb-1
• 2016: p-p production + Pb-p run
• Target p-p 25 fb-1
• 2017-2018: p-p (+ Pb-Pb in 2018)
• Target p-p 45 fb-1/y
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Changes 2015 → 2016• Smaller beta* from 80cm to 40cm → higher luminosity
• New combined ramp & squeeze (3m)→ shorter cycle
• Better handling of e-cloud effects→ mitigate transients, reduced movement of triplet in IR8
• Changed BLM thresholds → minimise dumps due to UFOs
• BCMS beams → smaller transverse emittances → higher luminosity
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Changes 2016 → 2017• Replaced one superconducting dipole, thermal cycle of sector
12, potential e-cloud and UFO surge
• New optics (Achromatic Telescopic Squeeze) potential for beta* < 40 cm (HL-LHC baseline optics)
• Dynamic crossing angle during the fill 300 to 240 urad → higher luminosity
• Improved combined ramp & squeeze (1m)→ shorter cycle
• Fixed limitations with SPS and injection kicker vacuum → longer bunch trains (144 bpi, more bunches) and higher bunch intensity, higher L
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Commissioning milestones 2016
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Powering tests
HW check out
Low intensity injection
Low intensity combined ramp and squeeze
Low intensity squeeze
First beam March 25
First CR&S March 26
First squeeze March 26
Start March 4 End March 21
YETS - Many interventions on many systems
Ended on March 4
BIS loop closed March 23
Nominal intensity
Combined ramp and squeeze
Squeeze
Bunch trains injection
First collisions
First stable beams
Physics Intensity ramp-up
CR&S on April 6
Started operation with nominals March 29Injection
First collisions April 8
72b April 21
April 23 3b+3b April 24 12b+12b
2040b June 1
Included special bump in IP5 to increase dispersion in TOTEM
Corrections of Optics, Q, Q`, C-
Collimators setup
Commissioning milestones 2017
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Powering tests
HW check out
Low intensity injection
Low intensity combined ramp and squeeze
Low intensity squeeze
First beam April 29
First CR&S to 1m April 30
First squeeze to 40cm May 1
Start March 31 End April 26
EYETS - Many interventions warm-up of S12
Ended on April 14
BIS loop closed April 28
Nominal intensity
Combined ramp and squeeze
Squeeze
Bunch trains injection
First collisions
First stable beams
Physics Intensity ramp-up
CR&S on May 12
Started operation with nominals May 4Injection
First collisions May 12
72b May 26
May 23 3b+3b May 24 12b+12b
2029b June 20
Corrections of Optics, Q, Q`, C-
Collimators setup
Combined Ramp & Squeeze
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CR&S Squeeze
11m
2016 3m 2017 1m
40cm
10m
ATLAS & CMS
LHCb
ALICE
Beta
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Possible performance limitations• Unidentified laying object (ULO)
• Reduces available aperture
• Unidentified falling objects (UFO) • Trigger beam dumps and magnet quenches
• Electron cloud • Limits number of bunches (vacuum, thermal load) • Instabilities: losses, degraded beam quality
• Hardware faults rate • Fault tracking tools (identify critical systems) • Consolidations (using fault tracking as input) • R2E project (SEU almost gone)
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UFOs• Small particles (~10μm) falling onto the beam
generating showers • Source and mechanism not fully understood yet • 2015: 21 UFO-related dumps, including 3 quenches
(ULO events not included) • In 2016 increased threshold of BLMs
• Expected increase of UFO-induced quenches (~+1) • Expected decrease of UFO-induced dumps(~-10)
• 2016: 21 UFO-related dumps including 3 quenches14
Evolution of UFOs
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2015 2016
Time
• There is a clear conditioning effect • Not known if conditioning will be lost after venting • At the present rate UFOs are under control
Electron cloud• Electron liberated on the vacuum chamber are accelerated by
the p+ beam • Accelerated electrons impact on the vacuum chamber
liberating more electrons • If the SEY is high, and the bunch spacing short, it turns into an
avalanche producing heat load on the cold beam screens and trigger beam instabilities
• electron bombardment reduces the SEY (scrubbing)
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e-cloud in 2016
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Cryo limit 160 w/hc
Modest effects of e-cloud during 2016 due to the limitation in bunch current and short batches
Courtesy G. Iadarola
e-cloud in 2017 “Scrubbing” run
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Sector 1-2 back where it was in 2016
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Friday Sunday
Availability
20Courtesy B. Todd
6 June → 18 September Excellent availability!
Almost 50% of fills dumped by OP
Fault analysis
21Courtesy B. Todd
Other limitations in 2016• Start of the run affected by few important faults
• Some generated long downtimes
• 66kV transformer IP8, POPS, PS MPS, water flooding Pt.3
• Some imposed limitations throughout the year
• LHC dump B1 N2 leak (in the shadow of other limitations)
• SPS internal dump (TIDVG) (no 144b/288b trains)
• Bad vacuum around injection kicker of B2
• max total current for B2 limited to ~2.4E14p (e-cloud)
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14 April - LHC dump B1 25 April - SPS dump 27 April – POPS down 29 April marteen 20 May - PS MPS 21 June - Water Pt. 3
Standard vs BCMS beams in the PS
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Standard 72b batch εxy~2.5μmIbunch < 1.3E11
BCMS 48b batch εxy~1.5μmIbunch < 1.3E11
Beam structure
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PS batch72b
SPS batch288b
SPS batch144b
3μsAbort gap
26.7km, 89μs, 3564 25ns slots, max 2800 bunches
• The LHC injection gap is ~900ns while the SPS injection gap is ~200ns
• The maximum number of bunches in the LHC depends on the number of batches per SPS injection • 72b / inj. → max 2040b • (2 x 48b) / inj. → max 2220b (2076b) • (4 x 72b) / inj. → max 2800b
LHC performance 2016
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From end of June LHC operated consistently above design peak luminosity
Steady production from beginning of June
260 MJ/beam
Production 2016
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Astonishing integrated luminosity achievement
Fast ramp-up after each configuration change Steady peace through the year
Operation cycle
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Turnaround3h is technically the shortest value
Courtesy B. Todd
Almost half of the fills ended by operators We can finally decide the length of fills!
Heavy ion run 2016 summary
• p - Pb @ 5 teV c.m. for ALICE
• Very long fills at levelled luminosity
• Record fill of 37 hours in stable beams
• p - Pb and Pb - p @ 8 TeV c.m.
• Increased bunch intensity of ions and protons
• Peak luminosity of 8E29 cm-2s-1, a factor 7.8 better than “design”
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HI run 2016 goals and results
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LHC as tide and earth quake monitor
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• The long and fills at 4 TeV provided a unique opportunity to monitor the earth tides with the LHC during a week around full moon.
• The model scale is defined by LEP data scaled to LHC. • New Zealand 7.8 MW earthquake of 11:02 2016.11.13 UTC clearly visible
LHC orbit 13:30 2017.11.06 CET
Special operation• Van der Meer scans for luminosity calibration
• Full VdM scans on 17, 18, 27 May for all experiments • Partial scans and studies here and there
• Large beta* run for forward physics (ALFA and TOTEM) • 19-22 September, very successful
• Plus many ad hoc cycles during the 20 days of MDs • Partially with HL-LHC in view, partially to test
improvement already applied
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2016 2017
~ Same days of p-p physics
Status of 2017 run
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Long term LHC plan
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Conclusions• Despite some troublesome events 2016 has been a wonderful year at the LHC
• Excellent machine availability/reliability as never before
• UFO, e-cloud, faults under control
• Despite not pushing parameters too hard due to limitations delivered more than 40fb-1 to ATLAS and CMS
• Big progress in understanding and controlling the machine
• Fast start-up in 2017 shows that the machine, the people and the tools are mature
• Peak luminosity of 2016 already surpassed after only few weeks of physics in 2017
• Established a solid base for the coming years
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The End
e-cloud studies• Several fills with same
conditions during the year to quantify conditioning (modest)
• 3 fills with 72bpi and increasing bunch intensity
• Large differences between sectors not understood
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Radiation effects
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Beam Losses
Courtesy S. Danzeca
Not only ATLAS and CMS
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ALICE ~13.5 nb-1
LHCb ~1.9 fb-1
Both profit from the long fills
Luminosity lifetime 2016
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Courtesy F.Antoniou, G. Iadarola, Y.Papaphilippou
ATLA
SC
MS
6h turnaround
72b 3.0μm 185μrad96b 2.5μm 185μrad96b 2.5μm 140μrad
Losses in collisions• During the first few hours
in collisions losses well in excess of the burn-off
• After ~3h losses become dominated by luminosity burn-off
• Situation improved during the year (BCMS)
• Reduction of crossing angle has no effect
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Courtesy F.Antoniou, G. Iadarola, Y.Papaphilippou
May October 140 μrad