17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
Europe/Zurich timezone

Studies of Resonances in the CERN SPS Limiting the LHC Beam Performance

THP4060
21 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC4.A17: Hadron accelerators: High Intensity Accelerators Poster session

Speaker

Ingrid Mases (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

In 2024, a measurement campaign was carried out using LHC-type single-bunch beams to study the dependence of beam losses and transverse emittance growth on the working point in the SPS. Tune scans across the horizontal and vertical planes revealed two unexpected resonances: a non-linear coupled resonance causing emittance growth in the horizontal plane and corresponding emittance decrease in the vertical plane, and another non-linear coupled resonance directly associated with particle losses. The latter is an octupolar resonance observed to impact beam transmission in multi-bunch, high-intensity beams. In 2025, loss maps were measured to confirm the presence of this resonance even for low brightness. Additional tune scans and Xsuite simulations were conducted to investigate possible lattice imperfections driving these resonances.

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Author

Ingrid Mases (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Co-authors

Foteini Asvesta (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Giuliano Franchetti (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) Hannes Bartosik (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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