Home page of Helmut Burkhardt 
With links to recent papers and presentations.

On work for LHC, SPS, LEP and Linear Colliders.

Subjects include Luminosity, Background, Lifetime, Monte Carlo Generators of background processes, Synchrotron radiation, Compton scattering on black body photons, very forward radiative Bhabha-scattering (Beam-Beam Bremsstrahlung) and alpha QED.

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LHC related activities
LBS LHC background study group, dealing with beam conditions as relevant for the LHC experiments
Related to experimental conditions  background,  luminosity, commissioning, special physics optics -- high beta.
LHC background page   ( my older version is here )
Related to injection, beam loss, collimation. 
LHeC information and parameter calculator

IPAC2011 San Sebastian contributions
Specification of New Vacuum Chambers for the LHC Experimental Interactions, tups026
LHeC Lattice Design, thpz014,
90 m Optics Commissioning, tupz001
90 m beta* Optics for ATLAS/ALFA, tupz002
Machine-induced Showers entering the ATLAS and CMS Detectors in the LHC, tupz012
Fill Analysis and Experimental Background Observations in the LHC, tupz020

LHC status at startup, presentations at workshops and conferences
EDS'09, 29/06/2009, Startup planning for the LHC and operation scenario for forward physics, presentation, proceedings
LP'09, 17/08/2009, Status of the LHC Machine, presentation, proceedings
RADCOR'09, 26/10/2009, Status of the LHC Machine, presentation, proceedings

IPAC2010 Kyoto contributions
First Luminosity Scans in the LHC, MOPEC014
Beam-gas Loss Rates in the LHC, TUPEB072
Dependence of Background Rates on Beam Separation in the LHC, TUPEB073
Muon Backgrounds in CLIC, THPD014
Characterization of Interaction-Point Beam Parameters .. in the ATLAS Detector at the LHC, MOPEC008

Physics at the Terascale, LHC Physics Workshop 2010, Machine Status and Prospects, Hamburg, Oct. 2010

Course on Accelerator Physics, Univ. Karlsruhe, Workshop Freudenstadt Oct. 2009

PAC 2009 Vancouver contributions
Luminosity Optimization and Calibration in the LHC    WE6PFP015
Study of High Beta Optics Solution for TOTEM           WE6PFP016
Optimization of the LHC Separation Bumps Including Beam-Beam Effects    WE6PFP018
Halo and Tail Simulations with Application to the CLIC Drive Beam    WE6PFP085
Simulation of Beam-Gas Scattering in the LHC   TH5PFP011
Analysis of the Transverse SPS Beam Coupling Impedance with Short and Long Bunches   FR5RFP047
The Large Hadron-electron Collider (LHeC) at the LHC   FR1PBC05

Annual Ket meeting Nov. 2008, LHC Maschine, pdf

Course on Accelerator Physics, 40th school Maria Laach Sept. 2008, the direct link to the slides is here

EPAC 2008 Genova contributions
CERN SPS Impedance in 2007  TUPP066
Energy Loss of Gold Ions in RHIC  WEPP001
Optics Flexibility in the LHC at Top Energy   WEPP003
Overall Optics Solutions for Very High Beta-star in Atlas WEPP004
A Storage Ring Based Option for the LHeC WEPP052
Beam Scraping to Detect and Remove Halo in LHC Injection THPC149

PAC 2007 Albuquerque contributions
Beam Scraping for LHC Injection TUPAN088.PDF
Halo Estimates and Simulations for Linear Colliders WEOCC03.PDF and CLIC-Note-714 (CERN-AB-2007-045)
Fast Vertical Single-Bunch Instability at Injection in the CERN SPS - An Update RPMN065.PDF
Numerical Study of the Very Forward Background from the Proton-Proton Collisions in the LHC TUPAN102.PDF

EPAC 2006 Edinburgh contributions
Halo and Tail Generation Studies for Linear Colliders  THPCH019.PDF
Optics Flexibility and Dispersion Matching at Injection into the LHC TUPLS014.PDF
On the Implementation of Experimental Solenoids in MAD-X and their Effect on Coupling in the LHC WEPCH043.PDF

Annual Ket meeting Nov. 2006, LHC status and plans pdf
Introduction to Accelerators, HST course July 2006, pdf
The LHC Accelerator, IMPRS and Colloquium, MPI München, 21 February 2006, pdf

Accelerator R&D for High Energy Physics. Report from the HEP2005 conference AB Seminar 22/9/2005, 

PAC 2005 (Knoxville, TN) contributions
Optics Flexibility and Matching at LHC Injection, MPPE047, LHC-Project-Report-830; CERN-LHC-Project-Report-830
Measurements of the LHC Collimator Impedance with Beam in the SPS, TPAP008, LHC-Project-Report-831; CERN-LHC-Project-Report-831
Collimation in the Transfer Lines to the LHC, TPAP009, LHC-Project-Report-829; CERN-LHC-Project-Report-829

Recent Machine Developments. MD-Notes and APC presentations, with SPS single bunch coherent oscillations, Impedance studies, Space Charge, Observation of a transverse instability

ICFA-HB2004 Oct. 18-22 (Bernsheim)
    "Loss control and collimation for the LHC", Talk pdf and Writeup pdf and LHC-Report 803
    "Single Bunch Transverse Intensity Limitations in the SPS", Talk pdf and Writeup pdf  AIP Conf. Proc.: 773 (2005) pp.368-370

Chamonix workshops on LHC, SPS, LEP  with my contributions
EPAC 2004 (Luzern) contributions (the full proceedings are here):
Collimation in the transfer lines to the LHC, MOPLT012
Observation of a Fast Single-Bunch Transverse Instability on Protons in the SPS, WEPLT012
Investigation of Space Charge Effects and Intrabeam Scattering for Lead Ions in the SPS, WEPLT013

PAC 2003 (Portland) contributions (for the full PAC use this and for the full proceedings this):
Protection Devices in the Transfer Lines to the LHC TPPB052  and CERN-LHC-Project-Report-641
Investigation of Space Charge effects in the SPS RPPB012 and CERN-AB-2003-013-ABP
Coherent tune shifts measured with few bunches in the SPS and comparison with resistive wall theory RPPB013 and CERN-AB-2003-014-ABP
EPAC 2002 (Paris) contributions (for the full EPAC use this ):
Coherent Beam Oscillations and Transverse Impedance in the SPS 
Background Simulation for the CLIC Beam Delivery System with Geant  
An Energy Loss Measurement at HERA-p
CLIC activities, EuroTeV htgen, backgrounds, gamma-gamma option, muon pair generators for Geant4
Summary paper on Accelerator Physics at LEP  in Reports on Progress in Physics, June 2000, local link
     and a "Retrospective on LEP" in  ICFA Beam Dynamics  Newsletter #48 April 2009

Summary paper on Backgrounds at LEP, published in NIM, local link

Multi-TeV CLIC Photon Collider Option, SL-2000-070 AP, CLIC Note 463, writeup of contribution to GG2000 workshop

Beam Lifetime and Beam Tails in LEP, writeup of contribution to e+e- factories workshop 1999, KEK

International Workshop on Future e+e- Linear Colliders, 1999 Sitges  (LCWS99)
my contribution:  Machine Background common to all machines : transparencies, writeup
Here the list of transparencies of all talks.

Collection of LEP Beam-Dynamics Parameters

Transverse beam tails due to inelastic scattering , Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 3, 091001 (2000)

Study group for Elfe at CERN

Work and papers on Beam Lifetime including Monte Carlo Simulation of large cross section processes, relevant for Beam Lifetime and Background estimates (Beam-Beam Bremsstrahlung, Compton scattering on black-body radiation)

Monte Carlo generation of the energy spectrum of synchrotron radiation, 8 June 2007, CERN-OPEN-2007-018; CLIC-Note-709; EUROTEV-Report-2007-018
integrated in geant4, G4SynchrotronRadiation.cc, hh in processes/electromagnetic/xrays and documented in the physics manual
  previous stand alone version :
LEP Note 632 Monte Carlo Generator for Synchrotron Radiation 17 Dec. 1990
LHC Note Reminder of the Edge Effect in Synchrotron Radiation

Work and papers on alpha QED
PAC 1997 (Vancouver) contributions:
Energy Dependence of Beam-Beam Interactions at LEP
Energy Loss of Proton and Lead Beams in the CERN-SPS,
Observation and Simulation of Beam Tails in LEP   
ICFA workshop 1997 in Frascati on "Beam Dynamics Issues for e+e- Factories",
my contribution:  Beam-Beam Interaction and Beam Lifetime in LEP;

EPAC 1996 (Sitges) contributions (for the full EPAC use this ):
Beam Tails  and as part of the proceedings
LEP1 operation 
Lead ion beam emittance and transmission studies in the PS-SPS complex at CERN
CERN phone and address

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