Implementation and experience with luminosity levelling with offset beam

Authors :: Follin, F.
Jacquet, D.
Source :: CERN Yellow Report CERN-2014-004, pp.183-187
Publication Year :: 2014
Abstract: The practice of luminosity levelling with an offset beam has been used as a routine operation in the LHC since 2011. This paper will describe how it has been implemented and what has been the operational experience with the system.<br />Comment: 5 pages, contribution to the ICFA Mini-Workshop on Beam-Beam Effects in Hadron Colliders, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18-22 Mar 2013