LHC BFPP Quench Test with Ions (2015)

Summary The 2015 Pb-Pb collision run of the LHC operated at a beam energy of 6:37Z TeV. The power of the secondary beams emitted from the interaction point by the bound-free pair production (BFPP) process reached new levels while the propensity of the bending magnets to quench is higher at the new magnetic eld levels. This beam power is about 70 times greater than that contained in the luminosity debris