Towards a new LHC interaction region design for a luminosity upgrade

Author

Strait, J. ; Lamm, M. ; Limon, P. ; Mokhov, N.V. ; Sen, T. ; Zlobin, A.V. ; Bruning, O. ; Ostojic, R. ; Rossi, L. ; Ruggiero, F. ; Taylor, T. ; Kate, H.T. ; Devred, A. ; Gupta, R. ; Harrison, M. ; Peggs, S. ; Pilat, F. ; Caspi, S. ; Gourlay, S. ; Sabbi, G

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

42

Abstract

After the LHC operates for several years at nominal parameters, it will be necessary to upgrade it for higher luminosity. Replacing the low-β insertions with a higher performance design based on advanced superconducting magnets is one of the most straightforward steps in this direction. Preliminary studies show that, with magnet technology that is expected to be developed by early in the next decade, a factor of 2 to 5 reduction in β* could be achieved with new insertions, as part of an upgrade aimed at a factor of 10 luminosity increase. In this paper we survey several possible second generation LHC interaction regions designs, which address the expected limitations on LHC performance imposed by the baseline insertions.

Keywords

accelerator magnets; colliding beam accelerators; proton accelerators; storage rings; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; LHC interaction region design; advanced superconducting magnets; baseline insertions; field quality; higher performance design; luminosity upgrade; second generation designs; triplet errors; Apertures; Coils; Geometry; Large Hadron Collider; Linear particle accelerator; Magnetic separation; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Research and development; Superconducting magnets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288835

Filename

1288835