The CERN Accelerator Complex and its upgrades

08.11.2017 11:15 – 12:15

The CERN LHC is the world’s highest energy hadron collider in operation, providing tremendous amounts of hadron collision data to the experiments. Over the past years the performance of the LHC and its injector chain was gradually increased to largely surpass its nominal performance in terms of luminosity. In addition, two projects, the LHC injector Upgrade (LIU) and the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), are well underway to further increase the performance to unprecedented levels.
In this seminar, the CERN accelerator complex will be presented together with the beam distribution scheme necessary to satisfy the needs of the large amount of experiments. The main components, instrumentation and limitations of an accelerator will briefly be addressed before looking into more detail to the LHC beam production schemes, which are a key ingredient for the higher than nominal performance of the LHC.
The Seminar will conclude with a look at the formula for the Luminosity, identifying the parameters that allow further increasing the performance. Based on this, the changes planned for the accelerator complex to achieve the HL-LHC performance will be presented.

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Bâtiment: Ecole de Physique

Grand Auditoire A
24, quai Ernest-Ansermet

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