LHC Crossing Schemes

This example shows how to use the plot_two_lhc_ips_crossings function to visualise the crossing schemes setup at the LHC IRs.

Note

This is very LHC-specific and will not work with other machines.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from cpymad.madx import Madx

from pyhdtoolkit.cpymadtools import lhc
from pyhdtoolkit.plotting.crossing import plot_two_lhc_ips_crossings
from pyhdtoolkit.plotting.styles import _SPHINX_GALLERY_PARAMS
from pyhdtoolkit.utils import logging

logging.config_logger(level="error")
plt.rcParams.update(_SPHINX_GALLERY_PARAMS)  # for readability of this tutorial

Setup a simple LHC simulation in MAD-X, with collision optics (at 6.8 TeV):

madx = Madx(stdout=False)
madx.option(echo=False, warn=False)
madx.call("lhc/lhc_as-built.seq")
madx.call("lhc/opticsfile.22")  # collisions optics

Let’s explicitely re-cycle both sequences to avoid having IR1 split at beginning and end of lattice. Note that it is important to re-cycle both sequences from the same points for the plots later on.

lhc.re_cycle_sequence(madx, sequence="lhcb1", start="IP3")
lhc.re_cycle_sequence(madx, sequence="lhcb2", start="IP3")
lhc.make_lhc_beams(madx, energy=6800)  # necessary after re-cycling sequences
madx.command.use(sequence="lhcb1")

Now we plot the crossing schemes, here for IP1 and IP5.

fig1 = plt.figure(figsize=(18, 11))
plot_two_lhc_ips_crossings(madx, first_ip=1, second_ip=5)
fig1.align_ylabels([fig1.axes[0], fig1.axes[1]])
plt.show()

We can have a look at, say, IP2 and IP8 by simply changing the parameters, and for instance also remove the highlighting of MQX and MBX elements:

fig2 = plt.figure(figsize=(18, 11))
plot_two_lhc_ips_crossings(madx, first_ip=2, second_ip=8, highlight_mqx_and_mbx=False)
fig2.align_ylabels([fig2.axes[0], fig2.axes[1]])
plt.show()

Let’s not forget to close the rpc connection to MAD-X:

madx.exit()

References

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example:

• lhc: make_lhc_beams, re_cycle_sequence

• crossing: plot_two_lhc_ips_crossings