8th BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN

Name: 8th BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN
Start: 2022-03-30T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-03-31T12:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

30 Mar 2022, 09:00 → 31 Mar 2022, 12:00 Europe/Zurich

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Description

The aims of the meeting are to:

Sum up the advancements since the last BGC collaboration meeting
- installation in the LHC tunnel
- Cockcroft Institute tests made
- Electron Beam Test Stand installation
- final V4 BGC instrument
- HEL design
Define the experimental programme of the BGC on the EBTS and LHC distributed gas tests
Review status of the collaboration, publication, manpower, and budget planning
Prepare for an LHC operational instrument installation
Agree on the priorities of the V4 development
Discuss alternative gases and pumps

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Previous collaboration meetings:

Krystian Sidorowski

krystian.sidorowski@cern.ch

Wednesday 30 March
- Wed 30 Mar
- Thu 31 Mar
- 09:00 → 09:10
  
  Welcome to CERN (10min) 10m 774/R-013
  
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  CERN
  
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  a) HL-LHC status
  
  Speaker: Thibaut Lefevre (CERN)
  
  Intro_BGC_march2022.pdf
  
  Intro_BGC_march2022.pptx
- 09:10 → 09:25
  
  Cockroft collaboration (15min) 15m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
  CERN
  
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  a) Status of the collaboration
  b) Recruitment situation and plans, financial situation, main milestones
  c) Foreseen publications for 2022
  
  Speaker: Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)
  
  Gas Jet 2022_03.pdf
  
  Gas Jet 2022_03.pptx
- 09:25 → 09:40
  
  Review of actions from last meeting and objectives of the workshop (15min) 15m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
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  a) Review actions from CERN collaboration meeting December 2020
  b) Milestones for the project at CERN
  c) Summary of future goals for the collaboration
  
  Speaker: Raymond Veness (CERN)
  
  CERN 0322.pdf
  
  CERN 0322.pptx
- 09:40 → 10:40
  2021/2022 Experimental results Cockcroft (part 1) (45min + 15min) 1h 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
  CERN
  
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  Speakers: Dr Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute), Oliver Stringer
  
  CI_update_Collaboration meeting_20220330_v1.pdf
  
  CI_update_Collaboration meeting_20220330_v1.pptx
  - a) Summary from v2 setup 30m
    
    i) OTR verification
    ii) Development of a hybrid simulation code
    iii) New configuration for future gas jet monitor
    
    Speakers: Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute), Oliver Stringer
  - b) Commissioning of v3 gas jet monitor 30m
    
    i) Setup description
    -- Control system
    --Vacuum behaviour
    ii) Gas jet beam profile measurement
    --3rd skimmer: 0.7 9 mm2 Vs 0.3 9 mm2
    --Converging flat nozzle Vs Converging diverging nozzle
    iii) Gas jet density distribution simulation and experiment
    
    Speakers: Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute), Oliver Stringer
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  ☕ Coffee Break ☕ 20m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
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- 11:00 → 11:30
  2021/2022 Experimental results Cockcroft (part 2) (20min + 10min) 30m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
  CERN
  
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  Speakers: Dr Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute), Oliver Stringer
  - a) Section III: NEG test in v3 gas jet monitor 30m
    
    Speakers: Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute), Oliver Stringer
- 11:30 → 11:50
  
  Experiences with fluorescence monitors at GSI (15min+5min) 20m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
  CERN
  
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  Speakers: Peter Forck, Serban Udrea (GSI Darmstadt)
  
  GSI Lessons-learned Forck 20220330.pdf
  
  GSI Lessons-learned Forck 20220330.pptx
- 12:00 → 14:00
  
  🍽️ Lunch - Restaurant 1 Glass BOX 🍽️ 2h Restaurant 1 Glass BOX
  
  Restaurant 1 Glass BOX
  
  CERN
- 14:00 → 14:15
  
  VSC controls system for the BGC with a planning towards an operation on the Electron Beam Test Stand (EBTS) in view of the tunnel installation (10min + 5min) 15m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
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  Speakers: Gregory Pigny (CERN), Lampros Zygaropoulos, Nikolaos Chatzigeorgiou (CERN)
  
  BGC_ICM_Presentation_30_3_2022.pdf
  
  BGC_ICM_Presentation_30_3_2022.pptx
- 14:15 → 15:45
  Electron Beam Test Stand (EBTS) and Hollow e-lens – update 1h 30m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
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  Speakers: Adriana Rossi (CERN), Ashley Robert Churchman (CERN), Ondrej Sedlacek (University of Liverpool (UK)), Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)
  - a) EBTS and HEL update (15min + 10min) 25m
    
    i) EBTS design and planning
    ii) EBTS experimental programme
    iii) BGC on EBTS schedule
    iv) Update on electron beam diameter
    v) BGC V3 operation: Foreseen time window
    vi) Safety aspects for BGC on EBTS
    
    Speaker: Adriana Rossi (CERN)
    
    ARossi-EBTS-BGCannual2022.pdf
    
    ARossi-EBTS-BGCannual2022.pptx
    
    Interlock Block Diagram.pdf
  - b) BGC on EBTS (10min + 5min) 15m
    
    Speaker: Ashley Robert Churchman (CERN)
    
    BGC on EBTS - A.CHURCHMAN V2.pdf
    
    BGC on EBTS - A.CHURCHMAN V2.pptx
  - c) BGC Version 3 at CERN (15min + 5min) 20m
    
    i) Arrival & Current status
    ii) Future plans
    iii) Experimental plans at EBTS
    
    Speakers: Ondrej Sedlacek (University of Liverpool (UK)), Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)
    
    BGC_Version3_at_CERN.pdf
    
    BGC_Version3_at_CERN.pptx
  - d) LHC Fluorescence measurements during Run 3 (15min + 5min) 20m
    
    i) Planned experiments
    ii) Current installation at LHC
    
    Speakers: Ondrej Sedlacek (University of Liverpool (UK)), Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)
    
    FluorescenceMeasurementsAtLHC.pdf
    
    FluorescenceMeasurementsAtLHC.pptx
- 15:45 → 16:05
  
  ☕ Coffee Break ☕ 20m 774/R-013
  
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- 16:05 → 16:25
  
  BGC V4 design - status (15min+5min) 20m 774/R-013
  
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  Speaker: Krystian Sidorowski (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))
  
  VERSION4_Status_BGC_Collaboration_meeting30-03-2022.pdf
  
  VERSION4_Status_BGC_Collaboration_meeting30-03-2022.pptx
- 16:25 → 16:45
  
  Vacuum considerations (20min) 20m 774/R-013
  
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  a) Outstanding vacuum questions - Marton Ady (5 minutes)
  b) V4 instrument preliminary pressure profile - Cristina Sequeiro (15 minutes)
  
  Speakers: Cristina Castro Sequeiro (CERN), Marton Ady (CERN)
  
  20220330 BGC v4 for HEL collaboration meeting.pdf
  
  20220330 BGC v4 for HEL collaboration meeting.pptx
  
  20220330 collab ady vacuum questions.pdf
  
  20220330 collab ady vacuum questions.pptx
- 16:45 → 17:00
  
  BGC V3 Tunnel install (15min) 15m 774/R-013
  
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  a) Status
  b) Action
  c) Outlook
  
  Speakers: Gerhard Schneider (CERN), Maria Teresa Ramos Garcia (CERN)
  
  BGC V3 Tunnel installation 2022 03 31.pptx
- 17:00 → 17:15
  
  Planning (10min + 5min) 15m 774/R-013
  
  774/R-013
  
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  a) General planning
  b) Milestones
  c) To-Do list
  
  Speaker: Gerhard Schneider (CERN)
  
  BGC Milestones for v3 and v4 2022 03 30.pdf
  
  BGC Milestones for v3 and v4 2022 03 30.pptx
- 17:30 → 18:30
  
  EBTS and BGC tour Option 1 1h 774/R-013
  
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  EBTS : Lab 236
  BGC: Building 8 room: R014
  
  Speaker: Maria Teresa Ramos Garcia (CERN)
- 20:00 → 21:00
  
  🍽️ Dinner - Restaurant Edelweiss 🍽️ 1h
  
  Restaurant Edelweiss
  Pl. de la Navigation 2, 1201 Genève
Thursday 31 March
- Wed 30 Mar
- Thu 31 Mar
- 09:00 → 09:30
  
  Beam Gas Vertex (BGV) profile monitor for HL-LHC 30m 774/R-013
  
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  a) Design progress
  b) Gas target plans
  
  Speakers: Bernadette Kolbinger (CERN), Helene Guerin
  
  20220331_BGCCollabmeeting.pdf
- 09:30 → 10:00
  Project Status and Wrap-up 30m 774/R-013
  
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  Speakers: Gerhard Schneider (CERN), Raymond Veness (CERN)
  - a) Discussion Wrap-up 20m
    
    i) Identify show-stoppers
    ii) Agree priorities
    iii) Review summary
    
    wrap-up.pptx
- 10:00 → 10:20
  
  Coffee Break 20m 774/R-013
  
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- 10:20 → 10:40
  
  Action List as developed following collaboration meeting 20m 774/R-013
  
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  Action list following collaboration meeting on 08.04.2022
  
  BGCActionList_Collaboration meeting 2022 04 08 (1).xlsx

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