May 7 – 12, 2023
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone

First results of running the LHC with lead ions at a beam energy of 6.8 Z TeV

MOPL021
May 8, 2023, 4:30 PM
2h
Sala Laguna

Sala Laguna

Poster Presentation MC1.A01: Hadron Colliders Monday Poster Session

Speaker

Daniele Mirarchi (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

A two-day test of operation with Pb ion beams was carried out in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2022, with the aim of gaining experience in view of the future high luminosity heavy-ion physics runs from 2023 onwards. The LHC experiments received the first Pb-Pb collisions at a record energy of 5.36 TeV centre-of-mass energy per colliding nucleon pair (beam energy 6.8 Z TeV). Bunch trains created with a new production scheme in the injectors, including slip-stacking, were injected into the LHC, with the collimation of nuclear beams with bent crystals tested along with a new collimation scheme for collision products. This paper describes the conditions and outcomes of these tests, which are critical steps in the upgrade to higher luminosity.

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Primary author

Roderik Bruce (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Co-authors

Reyes Alemany-Fernandez (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Theodoros Argyropoulos (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Hannes Bartosik (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Chiara Bracco (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Marco D'Andrea (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Alessandro Frasca (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Pascal Hermes (European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Jowett (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Daniele Mirarchi (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Stefano Redaelli (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Matteo Solfaroli (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Natalia Triantafyllou (The University of Liverpool) Jorg Wenninger (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Rongrong Cai (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

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