Longitudinal emittance blow-up and production of future LHC beams

During Long Shutdown 2 the RF systems of the PSB willbe replaced with broadband Finemet systems, there will alsobe an energy increase and many other modifications. Thisnote summarises studies that were done to investigate how tomeet the emittance requirements for the LIU-PSB baselineand a possible use of the broadband cavities to improve thecapture process.The LIU-PSB baseline requires longitudinal emittanceblow-up to 3 eVs with 205 ns bunch length at extraction. Thecurrent ferrite RF systems were used, with phase modulationof a high harmonic, to produce 2.8 eVs bunches with 220ns bunch length, as this is the largest that can currentlybe transferred to the PS. Larger emittances were possible,demonstrating the ability to reach the LIU-PSB baseline inthe future, which is confirmed in simulation.The broadband impedance of the Finemet was exploitedto allow RF voltage to be supplied on three harmonics (h=1,h=2, h=3), as opposed to the usual 2. For high intensitybeams this lead to an improved capture efficiency for thesame total voltage, and future studies are planned to demon-strate if there is an effect on extracted transverse emittance,