Feasibility of crystal-assisted collimation in the CERN accelerator complex

W Scandale, G Arduini, R Assmann… - … Journal of Modern …, 2022‏ - World Scientific
Bent silicon crystals mounted on high-accuracy angular actuators were installed in the
CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and extensively tested to assess the feasibility of …

Design concept for a future super proton-proton collider

J Tang - Frontiers in Physics, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Following the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012, new large colliders are
being considered and studied by the international high-energy community to explore the …

Concept for a future super proton-proton collider

J Tang, JS Berg, W Chai, F Chen, N Chen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015‏ - arxiv.org
Following the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC, new large colliders are being studied by
the international high-energy community to explore Higgs physics in detail and new physics …

First observation of ion beam channeling in bent crystals at multi-TeV energies

S Redaelli, M Butcher, C Barreto, R Losito… - The European Physical …, 2021‏ - Springer
Planar channeling in bent crystals has been observed in LHC with multi-TeV proton beam in
2015. Two crystals, mounted on novel high-accuracy goniometers (one in the horizontal and …

Reducing beam-related background on forward physics detectors using crystal collimation at the large hadron collider

D Mirarchi, V Avati, R Bruce, M Butcher, M D'Andrea… - Physical review applied, 2020‏ - APS
Beam collimation in high-energy colliders is customarily carried out by means of massive
amorphous absorbers surrounding the circulating beam. Several studies were performed in …

Cherenkov radiation in optical fibres as a versatile machine protection system in particle accelerators

J Wolfenden, AS Alexandrova, F Jackson, S Mathisen… - Sensors, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Machine protection systems in high power particle accelerators are crucial. They can detect,
prevent, and respond to events which would otherwise cause damage and significant …

Assurance case arguments in the large: The CERN LHC machine protection system

L Millet, S Diemert, C Rees, T Viger, M Chechik… - … on Computer Safety …, 2023‏ - Springer
Most public assurance arguments are used to introduce, discuss, and present novel
concepts and techniques related to structured argumentation. These examples often rely on …

[HTML][HTML] High activity earthquake swarm event monitoring and impact analysis on underground high energy physics research facilities

L Scislo - Energies, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
A seismic swarm is a series of earthquakes that occur in a small area over a short period of
time. A sequence of earthquakes of this magnitude is unusual in Switzerland, and it is …

Nonlinear dynamics of proton beams with hollow electron lens in the CERN high-luminosity LHC

D Mirarchi, RB Appleby, R Bruce… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2022‏ - epjplus.epj.org
The design stored beam energy in the CERN high-luminosity large hadron collider (HL-
LHC) upgrade is about 700 MJ, with about 36 MJ in the beam tails, according to estimates …

[HTML][HTML] Online and offline Radiation-Induced Attenuation measurements on FD-7 radiophotoluminescence dosimeters irradiated at high X-ray doses

A Hasan, Y Aguiar, RG Alía, C Campanella… - Radiation …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Radiophotoluminescence (RPL) FD-7 glass dosimeters find applications in low to
high dose radiation environments. This work presents an experimental characterization of …