MOPS047

Journals of Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW)

JACoW is a publisher in Geneva, Switzerland that publishes the proceedings of accelerator conferences held around the world by an international collaboration of editors.

URL	https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-MOPS047
Title	Development of new ion beams at the CERN ion injector complex for future physics programmes
Authors	M. Slupecki, A. Huschauer, A. Lasheen, B. Woolley, D. Gamba, D. Kuchler, E. Mahner, F. Carlier, G. Bellodi, H. Bartosik, H. Damerau, M. Widorski, O. Hans, P. Kruyt, R. Alemany-Fernandez, R. Scrivens, R. Wegner, T. Argyropoulos, R. Bruce European Organization for Nuclear Research E. Waagaard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Abstract	In an effort driven by the requests from different physics experiments at CERN, the CERN ion injector complex is looking to expand its capabilities by providing lighter-than-lead ion beams. Argon and xenon were delivered for NA61/SHINE physics in 2015 and 2017, with xenon also reaching the LHC in 2017. Oxygen is foreseen to be collided in the LHC in 2025, with magnesium, boron and krypton beams also being prepared. Before new ion species can be considered operational for experiments, the feasibility of producing and accelerating these beams throughout the accelerator complex has to be assessed. This contribution presents an overview of the performance of the ion complex with recently tested magnesium ion beams, the latest results of the ongoing oxygen beam commissioning, and future plans concerning ion species that still need to be developed.
Paper	download: MOPS047.pdf
Cite	BibTeX, LaTeX, Text/Word, RIS, EndNote
Conference	16th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Series
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Date	01-06 Jun 2025
Publisher	JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board	* Ming-Chyuan Lin - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * Yoichi Sato - KEK * Jui-Che Huang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * David Button - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation * Ping-Shun Chuang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Online ISBN	978-3-95450-248-6
Online ISSN	2673-5490
Received	02 April 2025
Revised	03 June 2025
Accepted	05 June 2025
Issued	05 November 2025
DOI	10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-MOPS047
Pages	718-721
Copyright	Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI.