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, December 7, 2010 (4:00 PM) to Thursday, December 9, 2010 (1:35 PM)

Monday, December 6, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

4:00 PM Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Opening remarks

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM Session 1: LHC beam operation: review of 2010 and settings the scene for 2011
4:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Performance and results - M. Ferro-Luzzi

5:05 PM Operational efficiency - W. Venturini Delsolaro

5:25 PM The LHC RF: Operation 2010 and Plans for 2011 - P. Baudrenghien

5:45 PM Beam quality and availability from the injectors - G. Papotti

6:05 PM 50 and 75 ns operation - G. Arduini

6:25 PM Intensity ramp-up - M. Lamont

6:45 PM General discussion
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
9:00 AM Session 2: Driving the LHC
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM How to improve turn-around - S. Redaelli

9:25 AM Software and control issues - D. Jacquet

9:50 AM Can we improve the magnetic model/cycle and its effects? - E. Todesco

10:15 AM What do we need to understand and optimize the LHC? - O. Bruning
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session 3: Beam diagnostics and feedback systems
11:00 AM - 1:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM Transverse damper operation - W. Hofle

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

12:40 PM Can we get a reliable on-line measurements of the transverse beam size? - F. Roncarolo
1:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:20 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 4: Machine Protection systems
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Do we understand everything about MP system response? - M. Zerlauth

2:15 PM LBDS and abort gap cleaning - C. Bracco

2:30 PM How low can we go? Getting below 3.5 m b* - R. Bruce

2:50 PM Injection protection: are we taking it seriously, how can we make it safer? - V. Kain

3:10 PM The human factor - A. Macpherson

3:30 PM General discussion
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Session 5: Beam losses
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Multi-turn losses and cleaning - D. Wollmann

5:00 PM Injection/extraction losses - W. Bartmann

5:30 PM Losses away from collimators: statistics and extrapolation - E.B. Holzer

5:50 PM BLM thresholds: limiting locations - A. Nordt

6:10 PM General discussion
6:30 PM Special Session
6:30 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

6:30 PM ATLAS: highlights from the first run - Fabiola Gianotti

6:50 PM ALICE: The 2010 LHC Experience - Riegler Werner on behalf of Jurgen Schukraft

7:10 PM CMS 2010 and Prospects for 2011-12 - Tiziano Camporesi on behalf of Guido Tonelli

7:30 PM Compliments to LHC from LHCb - Golutvin Andrei
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, December 9, 2010
9:00 AM Session 6: Luminosity performance
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Longitudinal and transverse emittance preservation - V. Kain

9:20 AM LHC Beam-Beam - W. Herr

9:40 AM Strategy for luminosity optimisation - S. White

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

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

10:40 AM LHC Beam parameters: pushing the envelope? - E. Metral
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Session 7: Wrapping up
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:50 PM Closing remarks - S. Myers
1:00 PM Finger food
Finger food
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM End of Workshop - Bus returns to CERN
End of Workshop - Bus returns to CERN
1:30 PM - 1:35 PM