LHC Project Seminar: Scenarios for the luminosity upgrade in the LHC

by Francesco Ruggiero, Walter Scandale (CERN/AB-ABP and CERN/AT-MAS)

Thursday 10 Nov 2005, 14:15 → 15:15 Europe/Zurich

AT Auditorium (CERN)

In a few years, the LHC luminosity will reach the nominal value of 10³⁴ cm^-2 s^-1. To go beyond, one can only think of increasing the circulating beam current to the ultimate intensity at the edge of the beam-beam interaction limit. In a recent workshop sponsored by the CARE-HHH network, we investigated possible ways to increase the luminosity performance by an order of magnitude by improving the insertion layout and the injector complex. This would require a vigorous R&D programme, addressing high-field magnets, fast pulsed magnets, radiofrequency sources and cavities, beam dynamics scenarios, accelerator protection and cleaning systems. In this seminar the highlights of the workshop will be presented and critically discussed.

Organiser(s): John Miles (AT/MAS)