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)

Papers on this subject:

Presentation 16, Session on Performance Limitations at 45 GeV, Beam-Beam and Lifetime from "Proceedings of the third workshop on LEP Performance, Chamonix, January 10-16, 1993, CERN SL/93-19, Editor J.Poole"
Monte Carlo Simulation of Scattering of Beam Particles and Thermal Photons CERN SL/Note 93-73 (OP), July 1993
The code in fortran is available by request  (email).

BBBREM: MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF RADIATIVE BHABHA SCATTERING IN THE VERY FORWARD DIRECTION. By R. Kleiss (NIKHEF, Amsterdam), H. Burkhardt (CERN). NIKHEF-H-94-01, Jan 1994. 13pp. Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.81:372-380,1994. e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9401333
The code in fortran is available by request (email)

Beam Lifetimes in LEP  by H.Burkhardt and Ronald Kleiss, published in Proceedings of the 4th European Particle Accelerator Conference EPAC 94, London, England, 27 Jun - 1 Jul 1994. Edited by V. Suller and Ch. Petit-Jean-Genaz. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994), Vol. 2, pp. 1353-1355

H. Burkhardt. Beam Lifetime and Beam-Beam Tails in LEP. In Proceedings of the 7th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Beam-Beam Issues for Multibunch, High-Luminosity Circular Colliders, Dubna (Russia), 18-20 May 1995, Edited by P.Beloshitsky and E. Perelstein, Dubna 1996, pp. 22 - 28.

I. Reichel, H.Burkhardt, G.Roy, Observation and Simulation of Beam Tails in LEP , Proceedings of 1997 Particle Accelerator Conference -PAC '97, Vancouver, Canada, 12 -16 May 1997  and CERN-SL-97-021

See the Ph.D. thesis "Study of the Transverse Beam Tails at LEP"  by  Ina Reichel , CERN/Aachen University July 1998

Quantum Lifetime

some discussion in:  Luminosity performance at high Energy , "Proceedings of the seventh workshop on LEP performance, Chamonix, January 14-17, 1997, CERN SL/97-06 (DI), Editor J.Poole"

subject of machine development sessions in fall 1998, MD-Note in preparation

"MD" note:

H.Burkhardt et al., "Transverse Beam Tails and Aperture in the 1998 102/90 physics optics", SL-Note-98-062 MD

Background

"STUDY OF BEAM INDUCED PARTICLE BACKGROUNDS AT THE LEP DETECTORS"
CERN-SL-97-040-EA, Jun 1997. 70pp.         postscript file  pdf file
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A403:205-246,1998

The following papers are from the proceedings of workshops on LEP performance and contain some discussion of Beam Lifetimes.

Presentation 35, Session on Performance at Z energy, Lifetime and Beam-Beam Limit from "Proceedings of the fourth workshop on LEP performance, Chamonix, January 17-21, 1994, CERN SL/94-06 (DI), Editor J.Poole"

Presentation 55, Session on Performance at W energy,  Beam-Beam Tuneshift, Emittance and Lifetime from "Proceedings of the fourth workshop on LEP performance, Chamonix, January 17-21, 1994, CERN SL/94-06 (DI), Editor J.Poole"

Session on Performance at Z Energies  What is the maximum bunch current we can collide at 45 GeV ? from "Proceedings of the fith workshop on LEP performance, Chamonix, January 13-18, 1995, CERN SL/95-08 (DI), Editor J.Poole"

See also the EPAC,  PAC and ICFA  contributions  and Summary paper on Accelerator physics at LEP   on my homepage