12th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, Uppsala (Sweden), 19-22 September 2022

from Monday 19 September 2022 (08:00) to Thursday 22 September 2022 (17:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Sept 2022
20 Sept 2022
21 Sept 2022
22 Sept 2022
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Plenary session 1 - Monday AM - Mike Lamont (CERN) (until 10:35) (Hall X, 1st floor)
09:00 Welcome - Richard Brenner (Uppsala University (SE))  
09:05 HL-LHC project status - Oliver Bruning (CERN)  
09:25 Status of LHC Run 3 operation and lessons learned - Roderik Bruce (CERN)  
09:45 Status of US-AUP contribution - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:05 Status of WP3 with focus on MQXFB - Ezio Todesco (CERN)  
10:35 --- Group picture on the stairs and Coffee break ---
11:05
Plenary session 2 - Monday AM - Jose Miguel Jimenez (CERN) (until 12:45) (Hall X, 1st floor)
11:05 Status of D1 - Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK)  
11:20 Status of HO correctors - Marco Statera (INFN Milano - LASA)  
11:35 Status of D2 (on behalf of Barbara Caiffi) - Andrea Bersani (INFN Genova (IT))  
11:55 Swedish collaboration - FREIA orbit corrector magnets testing plans and DFH components production status - Maja Olvegård  
12:10 Status of nested correctors - Fernando Toral (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
12:30 Status of CCT magnets - Qingjin XU  
08:30
Plenary session 5 - Tuesday AM - Malika Meddahi (CERN) (until 10:30) (Hall X, 1st floor)
08:30 SM18 test facility upgrades and test plans (A. Devred, on behalf of Stephan Russenschuck) - Arnaud Devred (CERN)  
08:50 Superconducting link & feedbox status and tests - Amalia Ballarino (CERN)  
09:10 Warm powering status - Michele Martino (CERN)  
09:30 Towards beam screen series production - Cedric Garion (CERN)  
09:50 Beam instrumentation status and plans - Raymond Veness (CERN)  
10:10 MKI cool - Miguel Diaz Zumel (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session 6 - Tuesday AM - Markus Zerlauth (CERN) (until 12:30) (Hall X, 1st floor)
11:00 Collimation: transition from LS2 to Run3 operation - Stefano Redaelli (CERN)  
11:20 Radiation protection for HL-LHC - Angelo Infantino (CERN)  
11:40 HEL - Adriana Rossi (CERN)  
12:00 Update on the 11T hybrid test program - Arnaud Devred (CERN)  
08:30
Wednesday AM - R2E & HL-LHC (WP10/WP7/WP6B/WP13/WP18) - Ruben Garcia Alia (CERN) (until 10:30) (Hall IV, ground floor)
08:30 Updated on HL-LHC radiation levels - Marta Sabate Gilarte (CERN) Giuseppe Lerner (CERN)  
08:50 Update on HL-LHC R2E development and qualification - Andrea Coronetti (CERN - University of Montpellier (FR))  
09:10 BLM ASIC performance and future plans - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)  
09:30 QDS R2E developments for the HL-LHC era - Reiner Denz (CERN)  
09:50 R2E developments for PIC and BIS in HL-LHC - Jan Uythoven (CERN)  
10:10 Radiation-tolerant distributed I/O tier platform - Greg Daniluk (CERN)  
08:30
Wednesday AM - WP4 - Ofelia Capatina (CERN) (until 10:30) (Main Auditorium, ground floor)
08:30 Industrial & CERN DQW status - Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)  
08:50 DQW RF testing - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN)  
09:10 Zanon status for series - Manuele Narduzzi  
09:30 RFD testing & HOM status - Naeem Abdul Huque  
09:50 DQW-HOM fabrication & status - Eric Montesinos (CERN)  
08:50
Wednesday AM - WP3 Nb-Ti magnets - Ezio Todesco (CERN) (until 10:30) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
08:50 MCBRDP4 prototype CERN production experience and test - Arnaud Pascal Foussat (CERN)  
09:10 Highlights on status of activities in BAMA - Yingzhe Wang  
09:30 Test results of MCBXFB magnets - Juan Carlos Perez (CERN)  
09:50 Highlights on status in Elytt - Fernando Toral (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Carla Martins Jardim (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, MedioAmbientales y Tecnológicas)  
10:10 Highlights on status of activities in Hitachi - Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Wednesday AM - R2E & HL-LHC (WP10/WP7/WP6B/WP13/WP18) (until 11:20) (Hall IV, ground floor)
11:00 Cable irradiation activity - Jose Gascon (CERN)  
11:00
Wednesday AM - WP3 MQXF magnet - Giorgio Ambrosio (Fermilab) (until 12:30) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
11:00 MQXFB test results, CERN - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)  
11:30 Vertical test results, AUP - Anis Ben Yahia  
12:00 MQXFA magnet assembly: lessons learnt from MQXFA07/08 - Paolo Ferracin (CERN) Paolo Ferracin  
11:00
Wednesday AM - WP4 - Ofelia Capatina (CERN) (until 12:40) (Main Auditorium, ground floor)
11:00 RFD / DQW cryomodule design - Teddy Capelli (CERN)  
11:20 RFD Prototype assembly lessons learned - Edward Stephen Jordan (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))  
11:40 RFD Prototype Final Test Acceptance kit design and manufacture - Dr Andrew May (Science and Technology Facilities Council)  
12:00 Preparations at TRIUMF & open points - Robert Edward Laxdal  
12:20 Materials testing & lessons learned - Adria Gallifa Terricabras (CERN)  
11:20
Wednesday - MCF (WP3/WP6A/WP6B/WP7/WP17.2) - Samer Yammine (CERN) (until 12:35) (Hall IV, ground floor)
11:20 Overview and baseline changes of the HL-LHC circuits - Samer Yammine (CERN)  
11:50 High current warm busbars for the HL-LHC circuits – Boundary conditions and design - Shruti Seshadri (CERN)  
12:05 DC cabling of the HL-LHC circuits and interlocking scheme - Stefano Bertolasi (CERN)  
12:20 Polarity control of the HL-LHC circuits - Mirko Pojer (CERN)  
08:30
Thursday AM - WP3 MQXF magnet - Paolo Ferracin (until 10:00) (Hall XI, 1st floor)
08:30 Coil post-mortem inspection - Alice Moros (CERN)  
09:00 Assessing MQXF conductor limits - Amalia Ballarino (CERN)  
09:30 Pre-load experiment in MQXFS - Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)  
08:40
Thursday AM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP13 - Elias Metral (CERN) (until 10:00) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
08:40 Crab cavity emittance growth MDs - Natalia Triantafyllou (University of Liverpool (GB))  
09:00 LHC electron cloud studies - Konstantinos Paraschou (CERN)  
09:20 LHC RF studies - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (NO))  
09:40 Impedance measurements, LHC-MDs - Lorenzo Giacomel (CERN)  
08:40
Thursday AM - WP7 - Reiner Denz (CERN) (until 10:00) (Hall IV, ground floor)
08:40 PDSU prototype and test results - Jens Steckert (CERN)  
09:00 DAQ systems for WP7 - Tomasz Podzorny (CERN)  
09:20 CLIQ - experience from prototype production & fabrication status - David Carrillo (CERN)  
09:40 Energy Extraction Systems: Status of IT String fabrication & control electronics development - Bozhidar Ivanov Panev (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:15
Colloquium for Swedish students and researchers (until 11:50)
10:15 Current performance and the ongoing luminosity upgrade of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - Oliver Bruning (CERN)  
11:15 Higgs boson measurements in the current and future runs of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University (SE))  
10:30
Thursday AM - IT String (WP16/WP1/WP3/WP6A/WP7/WP9) - Marta Bajko (CERN) (until 12:30) (Hall IV, ground floor)
10:30 Status of the cryogenics system of the HL-LHC IT String - Antonio Perin (CERN)  
10:50 Design status of WP3 splices - Rosario Principe (CERN)  
11:10 ELQA tests for the HL-LHC IT String - Mateusz Jakub Bednarek (CERN)  
11:30 Installation strategy of the SC Link system in the HL-LHC IT String - Paul Cruikshank (CERN)  
11:50 Safety considerations for the HL-LHC IT String - Davide Bozzini (CERN)  
12:10 Documentation plan for the HL-LHC IT String - Nicolas Heredia Garcia (CERN)  
10:30
Thursday AM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP13 - Elias Metral (CERN) (until 12:10) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
10:30 Beam-beam & Noise studies - Guido Sterbini (CERN)  
10:50 EO BPM studies & PU for CC diagnostics - Tom Levens (CERN)  
11:10 Tests of the new IT BPM read-out system at LHC - Douglas Robert Bett (University of Oxford (GB))  
11:30 HL-LHC longitudinal stability - Ivan Karpov (CERN)  
11:50 Status of BSRT and coronagraph - Enrico Bravin (CERN)  
10:30
Thursday AM - WP3 MQXF magnet - Paolo Ferracin (until 11:00) (Hall XI, 1st floor)
10:30 Improvements in MQXFB coil fabrication - Nicholas Lusa (CERN)  
11:00
Thursday AM - WP3 MQXF cold mass - Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK) Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN) (until 12:30) (Hall XI, 1st floor)
11:00 MQXFB magnet assembly, including actions to limit peak stress - Jose Ferradas Troitino (CERN)  
11:20 Cold mass and cryostat assembly AUP - Antonios Vouris  
11:50 Cold mass assembly at CERN - Herve Prin (CERN)  
12:10 Cryostat assembly at CERN - Delio Duarte Ramos (CERN)  
PM
12:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary session 3 - Monday PM - Rhodri Jones (CERN) (until 16:10) (Hall X, 1st floor)
14:00 Run 4 operational scenario and status of optics v1.6 - Elias Metral (CERN)  
14:20 Status of the WP4 Crab Cavities: SPS tests & series production - Ofelia Capatina (CERN) Rama Calaga (CERN)  
14:40 RFD Crab Cavity Contribution from the U.S. - Alessandro Ratti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
15:00 Status of CC cryomodules - Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))  
15:20 Canadian contribution - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)  
15:35 Summary and status for the HL-LHC collaborations (on behalf of B. Di Girolamo) - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)  
15:55 Safety for HL-LHC - Christelle Gaignant (CERN)  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40
Plenary session 4 - Monday PM - Oliver Bruning (CERN) (until 18:00) (Hall X, 1st floor)
16:40 Status and perspectives for Cryogenics - Serge Claudet (CERN)  
17:00 IT String planning and test program - Marta Bajko (CERN)  
17:20 HL-LHC baseline and TCC summary - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)  
17:40 Procurement strategy and risk mitigation - Hector Garcia Gavela (CERN)  
19:00 --- Collaboration welcome drink and banquet ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
12th Collaboration Board meeting (restricted) (until 17:00) (New Consistorium Room, ground floor)
14:00
Tuesday PM - WP2/WP5/WP10 - Roderik Bruce (CERN) (until 15:50) (Hall IV, ground floor)
14:00 Review of latest layout version and upcoming changes - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)  
14:20 Collimator layout and performance - Bjorn Hans Filip Lindstrom (CERN)  
14:40 Review of energy deposition simulations - Marta Sabate Gilarte (CERN)  
15:00 Thermo-mechanical calculations and final designs - Federico Carra (CERN)  
15:20 Bunch-by-bunch variations in LHC 2022 - Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN) Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)  
14:00
Tuesday PM - WP3/WP7 - Emmanuele Ravaioli (CERN) Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN) (until 15:40) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
14:00 D1 protection and validation against prototype results - Kento Suzuki  
14:20 Status of MBRD project: from prototype to series (on behalf of B. Caiffi) - Andrea Bersani (INFN Genova (IT))  
14:40 Diode stack status of integration validation - Giorgio D'Angelo (CERN)  
15:00 ELQA scope of work and electrical design criteria - Mateusz Jakub Bednarek (CERN)  
15:20 IFS boxes and flanges: status & strategy - Giorgio D'Angelo (CERN)  
14:00
Tuesday PM - WP5/WP13 - Raymond Veness (CERN) (until 15:30) (Hall X, 1st floor)
14:00 Simulations and Measurements at the Electron Beam Test Stand (EBTS) for the Hollow Electron Lens (HEL) - Muhammed Sameed (CERN)  
14:30 Beam Gas Curtain: design and plans - Gerhard Schneider (CERN)  
15:00 Beam Gas Curtain – tests with electron beams - Ondrej Sedlacek (University of Liverpool (UK))  
14:00
Tuesday PM - WP8/WP12 - Oliver Boettcher (CERN) (until 15:40) (Hall XI, 1st floor)
14:00 TAXS Status of prototyping and next steps - Oliver Boettcher (CERN)  
14:20 TAXN Status of manufacturing/production plans - Francisco Sanchez Galan (CERN)  
14:40 VAX prototyping, procurement, installation, alignment & operation - Jaime Perez Espinos (CERN)  
15:00 Q1-TAXS vacuum system design - Jaime Perez Espinos (CERN)  
15:20 TAS Removal & TAXS Installation scenarios - Antonio Alonso (CERN)  
14:00
Visit to FREIA (until 18:00)
14:00 Group#1  
16:00 Group#2  
17:00 Group#3  
19:00 --- Collaboration Board Dinner (by invitation only) ---
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Wednesday - MCF (WP3/WP6A/WP6B/WP7/WP17.2) - Samer Yammine (CERN) (until 14:40) (Hall IV, ground floor)
14:00 Update on the Inner Triplet quench simulations and current in the circuit branches - Emmanuele Ravaioli (CERN)  
14:20 Symmetrical quench detection and QDS threshold management for HL-LHC - Jens Steckert (CERN)  
14:00
Wednesday PM - WP4/WP9/WP12/WP15.4 - Robert Edward Laxdal Vivien Rude (CERN) (until 15:55) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
14:00 SPS-DQW cryomodule tests, experience & next steps - Rama Calaga (CERN)  
14:20 RFD-CM reception at CERN & acceptance tests - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN)  
14:35 Vacuum status for RFD-SPS & series - Chiara Pasquino (CERN)  
14:50 Cryogenic status SM18, SPS & HL-LHC & challenges/open points - Krzysztof Brodzinski (CERN)  
15:05 Cryomodule collaboration & lessons learned - Marco Garlasche (CERN)  
15:20 Alignment - Vivien Rude (CERN)  
15:35 QA & QC for WP4 - Hector Garcia Gavela (CERN)  
14:40
Wednesday PM - WP5/WP7/WP14/WP2 - Anton Lechner (CERN) (until 16:00) (Hall IV, ground floor)
14:40 Status and results of HL-LHC MDs for collimation - Pascal Hermes (CERN)  
15:00 New IR7 optics for improved cleaning and impedance - Bjorn Hans Filip Lindstrom (CERN)  
15:20 Tracking studies for Pb ion crystal collimation - Rongrong Cai (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
15:40 Power deposition studies for crystal-assisted Pb collimation - Jean-Baptiste Potoine (Universite Montpellier II (FR))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Wednesday PM - WP2/WP3 - Elias Metral (CERN) (until 18:00) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
16:30 Summary, Status and requests for sorting strategies in HL-LHC - Ezio Todesco (CERN)  
17:00 Evolution of magnetic field quality - Ezio Todesco (CERN)  
17:30 Status of DA with expected field quality - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)  
16:30
Wednesday PM - WP5/WP7/WP14/WP2 - Anton Lechner (CERN) (until 17:30) (Hall IV, ground floor)
16:30 Updates on fast failure studies and impact of depleted halo on failure detection - Daniel Wollmann (CERN) Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)  
16:50 Damage limits studies with sc. coil samples - experimental preparations and setup - Daniel Wollmann (CERN)  
17:10 Energy deposition studies for extraction protection devices/dump - Edoardo Maria Farina (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Thursday PM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP13 - Elias Metral (CERN) (until 15:05) (Hall IX, 1st floor)
14:00 Status of fluorescence tests with protons in the LHC - Ondrej Sedlacek (University of Liverpool (UK))  
14:20 Status of the Beam Gas Vertex detector study - Bernadette Kolbinger (CERN)  
14:40 Optics measurements & outlook - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)  
14:00
Thursday PM - WP4 (until 15:30) (Hall XI, 1st floor)
14:00 Discussion  
14:00
Thursday PM - WP6A/WP7 - Daniel Wollmann (CERN) Amalia Ballarino (CERN) (until 15:30) (Hall IV, ground floor)
14:00 Overview of WP6A electrical requirements and instrumentation - Jerome Fleiter (CERN)  
14:30 Current lead heaters and IFSs - Giorgio D'Angelo (CERN)  
14:50 Deliverables for SC Link protection & current lead heater controls - Jens Steckert (CERN)  
15:10 ELQA scope of work for SC links - Mateusz Jakub Bednarek (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Close-out session (until 16:30) (Hall X, 1st floor)