Simulation studies for the LHC long-range beam-beam compensators

The performance of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its minimum crossing angle are limited by long-range beam-beam collisions. Wire compensators can mitigate part of the long-range effects and may allow for smaller crossing angles, smaller β*, or higher beam intensity. A prototype long-range wire compensator should be installed in the LHC by 2014/15. We report simulation studies examining and comparing the efficiency of the wire compensation, in terms of tune footprint or dynamic aperture, at various candidate locations, with different wire shapes, and for varying transverse distance from the beam.