IPAC'25 - the 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Achievement of LIU longitudinal parameters at the CERN SPS

TUPS028

3 Jun 2025, 16:00

2h

Exhibiton Hall A _Salmon (TWTC)

Poster Presentation MC4.A04 Circular Accelerators Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Giulia Papotti (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

To prepare the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) as an injector for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), its Radiofrequency (RF) system was majorly upgraded. The 200 MHz travelling wave structures were rearranged, adding two solid-state power amplifiers and a new Low-Level RF (LLRF) system. The increase in RF power and reduction of the beam coupling impedance at the fundamental frequency were designed for capture and acceleration of four trains of 72 bunches spaced by 25 ns at an intensity of 2.3e11 protons per bunch with bunch lengths of 1.65 ns ±10% at SPS extraction. These beam parameters have first been demonstrated in 2024 after careful optimisation of all the main longitudinal settings: voltage program at fundamental and higher harmonics, interplay of one turn-delay feedback, feedforward and longitudinal damper, as well as controlled emittance blow-up. This contribution details the achieved beam parameters and the conditions that allowed them, along with the encountered limitations.