Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop

from Monday 5 December 2022 (08:30) to Thursday 8 December 2022 (18:10)
CERN (30/7-018)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022
AM
08:30 --- Arrival coffee ---
09:00
Session 1: Introduction, aims and 2022 recap - Rhodri Jones (CERN) (until 10:00)
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 ---
10:30
Session 2: Accelerator and client view by beam - Bettina Mikulec (CERN) Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN) (until 12:35)
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)  
08:30
Session 3: LIU Proton Beams for the LHC - Hannes Bartosik (CERN) Stephane Fartoukh (CERN) (until 12:30)
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)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
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)  
08:30
Session 5: Equipment availability and efficiency improvements - Giulia Papotti (CERN) Chiara Pasquino (CERN) (until 11:55)
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)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
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') - Dr Tim Giles (CERN)  
11:55 --- Lunch break ---
08:30
Session 7: Efficiency, reliability & tools across the complex - Alexander Huschauer (CERN) Verena Kain (CERN) (until 12:05)
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') - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) Michael Schenk (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
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') - Dr Benjamin Todd (CERN)  
PM
12:35 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Session 2: Accelerator and client view by beam - Bettina Mikulec (CERN) Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN) (until 17:05)
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') - Dr Stefan Ulmer (RIKEN (JP))  
14:30 AD/ELENA Beam Production and Delivery (20' + 10') - Davide Gamba (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
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 ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Session 4: Accelerator performance: LHC - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN) Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN) (until 17:45)
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)  
15:25 --- Coffee break ---
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 ---
13:30
Session 6: Beam related issues throughout the complex - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN) Eva Barbara Holzer (CERN) (until 17:30)
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)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
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
Physics Seminar (until 20:00)
18:00 Space-based science meets accelerator-based science at CERN - Urs Wiedemann (CERN)  
12:05 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Session 8: Outlook and roadmap for Run3 and Run4 - Johannes Bernhard (CERN) Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) (until 16:30)
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') - Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN)  
14:30 nTOF, AD/ELENA performance upgrade strategy (20' + 10') - Dr Marco Calviani (CERN) Laurette Ponce (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 ---
16:50
Session 9: Main points and follow-up - Rhodri Jones (CERN) Brennan Goddard (CERN) (until 18:10)
16:50 Accelerator and client view by beam (5' + 5') - Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN) Bettina Mikulec (CERN)  
17:00 LIU Proton Beams for the LHC (5' + 5') - Stephane Fartoukh (CERN) Hannes Bartosik (CERN)  
17:10 Accelerator performance: LHC (5' + 5') - Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)  
17:20 Equipment availability and efficiency improvements (5' + 5') - Giulia Papotti (CERN) Chiara Pasquino (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') - Verena Kain (CERN) Alexander Huschauer (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)