Name: LHC Beam Operation Workshop - Evian 7-9 December 2010
Start: 2010-12-07T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-12-09T13:35:00+01:00
Location: Hilton, Evian

LHC Beam Operation Workshop - Evian 7-9 December 2010

from Tuesday 7 December 2010 (16:00) to Thursday 9 December 2010 (13:35)

Monday 6 December 2010
Tuesday 7 December 2010

16:00 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
16:00 - 16:30

16:30

16:30 - 16:45
16:45
16:45 - 19:00
Contributions

16:45 Performance and results - M. Ferro-Luzzi

17:05 Operational efficiency - W. Venturini Delsolaro

17:25 The LHC RF: Operation 2010 and Plans for 2011 - P. Baudrenghien

17:45 Beam quality and availability from the injectors - G. Papotti

18:05 50 and 75 ns operation - G. Arduini

18:25 Intensity ramp-up - M. Lamont

18:45 General discussion
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 8 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 How to improve turn-around - S. Redaelli

09:25 Software and control issues - D. Jacquet

09:50 Can we improve the magnetic model/cycle and its effects? - E. Todesco

10:15 What do we need to understand and optimize the LHC? - O. Bruning
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:20
Contributions

11:00 Bunch by bunch beam instrumentation - T. Lefevre

11:30 Feedbacks: status, operational dependencies and outlook for 2011 - R. Steinhagen

12:00 Transverse damper operation - W. Hofle

12:20 BPM: status, measurement reliability and outlook for 2011 - E. Calvo

12:40 Can we get a reliable on-line measurements of the transverse beam size? - F. Roncarolo
13:20 Lunch
Lunch
13:20 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Do we understand everything about MP system response? - M. Zerlauth

14:15 LBDS and abort gap cleaning - C. Bracco

14:30 How low can we go? Getting below 3.5 m b* - R. Bruce

14:50 Injection protection: are we taking it seriously, how can we make it safer? - V. Kain

15:10 The human factor - A. Macpherson

15:30 General discussion
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Multi-turn losses and cleaning - D. Wollmann

17:00 Injection/extraction losses - W. Bartmann

17:30 Losses away from collimators: statistics and extrapolation - E.B. Holzer

17:50 BLM thresholds: limiting locations - A. Nordt

18:10 General discussion
18:30
18:30 - 19:50
Contributions

18:30 ATLAS: highlights from the first run - Fabiola Gianotti

18:50 ALICE: The 2010 LHC Experience - Riegler Werner on behalf of Jurgen Schukraft

19:10 CMS 2010 and Prospects for 2011-12 - Tiziano Camporesi on behalf of Guido Tonelli

19:30 Compliments to LHC from LHCb - Golutvin Andrei
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Thursday 9 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Longitudinal and transverse emittance preservation - V. Kain

09:20 LHC Beam-Beam - W. Herr

09:40 Strategy for luminosity optimisation - S. White

10:00 The LHC optics in practice - R. Tomas

10:20 Hump: how did it impact the luminosity performance? - G. Arduini

10:40 LHC Beam parameters: pushing the envelope? - E. Metral
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Parameters for 2011 - 2011 LHC beam operation plans (incl. intensity steps) - J. Wenninger

12:05 Workshop summary - strategy for beam commissioning in 2011 - M. Lamont

12:50 Closing remarks - S. Myers
13:00 Finger food
Finger food
13:00 - 13:30

13:30 End of Workshop - Bus returns to CERN
End of Workshop - Bus returns to CERN
13:30 - 13:35

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