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@inproceedings{bracco:ipac2022-wepost014, author = {C. Bracco and F.M. Velotti}, title = {{Studies on Pre-Computation of SPS-to-LHC Transfer Line Corrections}}, booktitle = {Proc. IPAC'22}, % booktitle = {Proc. 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'22)}, pages = {1711--1714}, eid = {WEPOST014}, language = {english}, keywords = {injection, extraction, target, proton, closed-orbit}, venue = {Bangkok, Thailand}, series = {International Particle Accelerator Conference}, number = {13}, publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland}, month = {07}, year = {2022}, issn = {2673-5490}, isbn = {978-3-95450-227-1}, doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST014}, url = {https://jacow.org/ipac2022/papers/wepost014.pdf}, abstract = {{The injection process in the LHC gives a non-negligible contribution to the turnaround time between two consecutive physics fills. Mainly due to orbit drifts in the SPS, the steering of the SPS-to-LHC transfer lines (TL) had to be regularly performed in view of minimising injection oscillations and losses, which otherwise would trigger beam dumps. Moreover, for machine protection purposes, a maximum of twelve bunches had to be injected after any TL steering to validate the actual applied corrections. This implied at several occasions the need to interrupt a fill to steer the lines and introduced a further delay between fills. Studies were performed to evaluate the option of pre-calculating the required TL corrections based on SPS orbit measurements during the LHC magnet ramp down and the reconstruction of the beam position and angle at the SPS extraction point.}}, }