Analysis of 2016 beam losses at the LHC

The analysis of operational beam losses at the LHC is crucial to assess the performance of the accelerator. In the context of the LHC collimation studies, systematic analyses are carried out during the operation to assess the performance of the beam halo collimation. Various tools have been developed for this purpose, which are now also used for more general applications. In this paper, the analysis of losses throughout the cycle, as computed from the measurements of collimator beam losses and from the LHC beam current monitors, is presented. The BLM analysis at primary collimators of the betatron and off- momentum cleaning insertions allows also a decomposition of losses that provides an insight of the main source of losses (transverse horizontal or vertical, or off-momentum). The results of this analysis are also discussed.