Name: Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop
Start: 2022-12-05T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2022-12-08T18:10:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop

from Monday, 5 December 2022 (08:30) to Thursday, 8 December 2022 (18:10)

Monday, 5 December 2022

08:30 Arrival coffee
Arrival coffee
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to 2022 Joint Accelerator Facility Performance Workshop (10' + 5') - Brennan Goddard (CERN) Rhodri Jones (CERN)

09:15 Outcomes of 2021 Montreux Injector workshop (10' + 5') - Chiara Pasquino (CERN)

09:30 Outcomes of 2021 Evian/Chamonix LHC workshops (10' + 5') - Giulia Papotti (CERN)

09:45 Recap of 2022 runs and high level CERN program landscape (10' + 5') - Mike Lamont (CERN)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
10:30
10:30 - 12:35
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 Feedback from North Area Experiments on 2022 operation and outlook (25' + 10') - Laura Molina Bueno (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Vincent Andrieux (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

11:05 Feedback from HiRadMat & Awake on 2022 operation and outlook (20' + 10') - Giovanni Zevi Della Porta (CERN)

11:35 SFTPRO, HiRadMat and AWAKE Beam Production and Delivery (20' + 10') - Kevin Shing Bruce Li (CERN)

12:05 EAST Area Experiments Highlights and Requests (Proton + Ion Beams) (20' + 10') - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN)
12:35 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:35 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 17:05
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 EAST Beam Production and Delivery (Protons + Ions) (20' + 10') - Marc Delrieux (CERN)

14:00 Feedback from AD/ELENA Experiments on 2022 operation and outlook (20' + 10') - Stefan Ulmer (RIKEN (JP))

14:30 AD/ELENA Beam Production and Delivery (20' + 10') - Davide Gamba (CERN)

15:30 Feedback from n_TOF & ISOLDE Experiments on 2022 operation and outlook (20' + 10') - Nikolaos Patronis (University of Ioannina (GR))

16:00 nTOF & ISOLDE Beam Production and Delivery (20' + 10') - Yann Dutheil (CERN)

16:30 Feedback from LHC Experiments on 2022 operation and outlook (25' + 10') - Brian Petersen (CERN)
17:30 Welcome drink
Welcome drink
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Restaurant 2
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
08:30
08:30 - 12:30
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 LIU intensity ramp-up: longitudinal beam dynamics and RF aspects (20' + 10') - Ivan Karpov (CERN)

09:00 LIU intensity ramp-up: transverse aspects (20' + 10') - Carlo Zannini (CERN)

09:30 Transverse tails and Losses at LHC injection (20' + 10') - Foteini Asvesta (CERN)

10:00 E-cloud limitations in the LHC and mitigation strategy (20' + 10') - Lotta Mether (CERN)

11:00 Bunch charge limitation from LHC beam extract-ability (20' + 10') - Calum Sharp (CERN)

11:30 Bunch charge limitation from the LHC RF system (20' + 10') - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)

12:00 LHC bunch charge limitation from beam induced RF heating (20' + 10') - Benoit Salvant (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 17:45
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Commissioning overview (15' + 10') - Georges Trad (CERN)

13:55 Optics commissioning (20' + 10') - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)

14:25 Collimation commissioning (20' + 10') - Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN)

14:55 LHC injection: improvements and commissioning of beam-intercepting devices (20' + 10') - Chiara Bracco (CERN)

15:55 OP view of system performance with view to future improvements (15' + 10') - Delphine Jacquet (CERN)

16:20 2022 LHC operational performance (20' + 10') - Michi Hostettler (CERN)

16:50 2022 LHC beam performance (15' + 10') - Nicolas Mounet (CERN)

17:15 2023 Machine configuration for optimum performance (20' + 10') - Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)
18:00 Workshop cocktail and informal dinner
Workshop cocktail and informal dinner
18:00 - 20:00
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
08:30
08:30 - 11:55
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Setting the scene of 2022 operation (recap of AFT report, external faults) (20' + 10') - Andrea Apollonio (CERN)

09:00 RF specific HW/SW issues and outlook for the LHC chain (20' + 10') - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

09:30 Injection & Extraction systems PS, SPS and LHC: specific HW/SW issues and outlook (20' + 10') - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)

10:30 Magnet ageing (20' + 10') - Philip Schwarz (CERN) Antony Newborough (CERN)

11:00 POPS Operational Issues (20' + 10') - Aramis Schwanka Trevisan (CERN) Fulvio Boattini (CERN)

11:30 Increasing performance for AD, including intensity on target (15' + 10') - Tim Giles (CERN)
11:55 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:55 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 17:30
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Proton and duty cycle sharing for the CPS and SPS destinations (20' + 10') - Denis Gerard Cotte (CERN)

14:00 Lead ions throughout the complex: Fixed Target and LHC beams (20' + 10') - Nicolo Biancacci (CERN)

14:30 Beam loss and transmission along the chain (20' + 10') - Mihaly Vadai (CERN)

15:30 Slow extraction improvements (20' + 10') - Pablo Andreas Arrutia Sota (University of Oxford (GB))

16:00 Beam transfer and splitting improvements (20' + 10') - Rebecca Louise Ramjiawan (CERN)

16:30 Beam performance characterization across the complex (20' + 10') - Alexander Huschauer (CERN)

17:00 New, proposed and still missing diagnostics (20' + 10') - Athanasios Topaloudis (CERN)
18:00
18:00 - 20:00
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

18:00 Space-based science meets accelerator-based science at CERN - Urs Wiedemann (CERN)
Thursday, 8 December 2022
08:30
08:30 - 12:05
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Setting the scene - follow-up from last year's workshop (20' + 10') - Heiko Damerau (CERN)

09:00 Energy-efficient operation – concrete ideas to save energy (20' + 10') - Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN)

09:30 Automation strategy (20' + 10') - Michael Schenk (CERN) Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)

10:30 Aggressive hardware and beam commissioning in the injectors (20' + 10') - Piotr Krzysztof Skowronski (CERN)

11:05 Moving complexity from hardware to software - Ideas? (20' + 10') - Konstantinos Papastergiou (CERN)

11:35 Exploiting synergies: where does it work and where not (20' + 10') - Benjamin Todd (CERN)
12:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:05 - 13:30
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
13:30
13:30 - 16:30
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 ISOLDE consolidation and performance upgrade strategy (20' + 10') - Joachim Vollaire (CERN)

14:00 Longer-term ion operation for FT and LHC (20' + 10') - Roderik Bruce (CERN)

14:30 nTOF, AD/ELENA performance upgrade strategy (20' + 10') - Laurette Ponce (CERN) Marco Calviani (CERN)

15:00 High intensity facility in SPS North Area ECN3 (20' + 10') - Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN)

15:30 PBC experiments and decision strategies (20' + 10') - Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)

16:00 Run3 programmed stops and LS3 (20' + 10') - Fernando Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa (CERN)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 16:50
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
16:50
16:50 - 18:10
Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium
Contributions

16:50 Accelerator and client view by beam (5' + 5') - Bettina Mikulec (CERN) Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN)

17:00 LIU Proton Beams for the LHC (5' + 5') - Hannes Bartosik (CERN) Stephane Fartoukh (CERN)

17:10 Accelerator performance: LHC (5' + 5') - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN) Roderik Bruce (CERN)

17:20 Equipment availability and efficiency improvements (5' + 5') - Chiara Pasquino (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN)

17:30 Beam related issues throughout the complex (5' + 5') - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN) Eva Barbara Holzer (CERN)

17:40 Efficiency, reliability & tools across the complex (5' + 5') - Alexander Huschauer (CERN) Verena Kain (CERN)

17:50 Outlook and roadmap for Run3 and Run4 (5' + 5') - Johannes Bernhard (CERN) Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)

18:00 Concluding remarks - Brennan Goddard (CERN) Rhodri Jones (CERN)

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