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Automatic retraction of collimator jaws after power cut on the step motors. The gap opens from 1 mm to 60 mm! The RF contacts ensure the electrical conducitivity from the beam pipe to the Carbon-Carbon jaw!

Finalize the design of the LHC collimation system in IR3 and IR7, taking into account all relevant requirements concerning robustness, performance, fabrication, installation, maintenance, machine protection, and beam operation. Produce prototype collimator tanks for TCP, TCS, and TCL type collimators and verify their performance. Supervise production and installation of the full system. Commission the system without and with beam. Support routine operation.
 
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Movie of IR7 layout

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Starting for beam commissioning up to 3.5 TeV and 32 MJ stored energy!
New Machine Protection test and result page is put up.

SixTrack Simulations for 3.5TeV

The full phase 1 collimation system (4 stage cleaning & protection) is set up for beam cleaning at 450 GeV. Efficiency reaches up to 99.99% with stored beam! Used through injection, ramp and 1.18 TeV!

CERN news June 24: The LHC collimator project completes phase 1
Celebration June 23: Group picture -
Pictures last installation - Pictures drink
Link: EuCARD/Colmat kick-off meeting

Link: Conceptual Design Review for Phase II of LHC Collimation

Download: Ralph's "Cassandra" talk on intensity limits in LHC

Presentation of a conceptual solution for HiRadMat Test Facility
Start update work on code documentation web site.
Download: Draft ECR on 2009 collimator installation
Download: PhD thesis C. Bracco: "Commissioning Scenarios and Tests for the LHC Collimation system"

Start completing the installation of the collimation "phase I" system (movies)

Reproducibility run of IR7 collimators achieves < 30 micrometer accuray

Collimator events with LHC beam (CMSa, CMSb, ATLASa, ATLASb)

Download: Kurchatov report on radiation-resistance of phase I collimators

Installation of the 2008 collimation system completed

Download: ECO "Collimator Installation for First 7 TeV Run" (WORD)

Seminar (GSI/FNAL): Beam Loss and Collimation at LHC (Aug:  SLAC)

High volume collimator installation started in IR7

Collimator database is online with direct links to MTF

Photographs from CERCA production site

Mini-review of LHC Collimation Controls
Download: Latest collimation production and installation planning

Download: PhD thesis G. Robert-Demolaize: "Design and Performance Optimization of the LHC Collimation System".

Download: Detailed installation planning table (supports, collimators, phases)
Download: Lateral positions of installed collimators

EPAC talk on LHC collimation by R. Assmann
First collimators installed in ring and transfer line

Download: ECO passive absorbers in IR7 (LHC-LJ-EC-0014)

Link: Web site for collimation project steering meeting
Download: ECO active abs. & passive absorbers in IR3 (LHC-LJ-EC-0010)

Review of Mechanical Movement and Motorization for the LHC Collimators
 

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LHC Collimation Working Group

Collimation Project Steering Meeting

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