Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2023

from Tuesday 5 December 2023 (08:00) to Thursday 7 December 2023 (18:00)
Royal Plaza Montreux & Spa

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023
AM
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Session 1 - Bettina Mikulec (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) (until 14:30)
10:30 Summary of FT operation and issues (20'+10') - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)  
11:00 Three years with upgraded injectors: LIU beam ramp-up and benefits to FT beams (20'+10') - Hannes Bartosik (CERN)  
11:30 Summary of LHC operation: issues and prospects for Run 3 (20'+10') - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)  
12:00 LHC experiments feedback from 2023 and desiderata 2024 (20'+10') - Filip Moortgat (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 FT experiments feedback from 2023 and Run 3 outlook (20'+10') - Eva Barbara Holzer (CERN)  
08:30
Session 3 - Carlo Zannini (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN) (until 09:30)
08:30 Limitations from kicker magnets (20'+10') - Giorgia Favia (CERN)  
09:00 Limitations from LHC RF fingers (20'+10') - Chiara Antuono (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Patrick Krkotic  
09:30
Session 4 - Benjamin Bradu (CERN) Lotta Mether (CERN) (until 12:20)
09:30 Electron clouds in the injectors (20'+10') - Giovanni Iadarola (CERN)  
10:00 Electron clouds impact on LHC cryogenics (20'+10') - Laurent Delprat (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Pilot vacuum sector (15'+10) - Mr Quentin Duong (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
11:25 Surfaces and e-clouds (15'+10') - Valentine Petit (CERN)  
11:50 Electron clouds in the LHC (20'+10') - Konstantinos Paraschou (CERN)  
08:45
Session 6 - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) (until 11:05)
08:45 Transfer line equipment and instrumentation missing or in need of upgrade (15'+10') - Maarten Van Dijk (CERN)  
09:10 Progress and remaining issues with the secondary beamlines (20'+10') - Laurie Nevay (CERN) Luke Aidan Dyks (CERN)  
09:40 Status update from ELENA/AD and APOC WG (15'+10') - Davide Gamba (CERN)  
10:05 --- Coffee Break ---
10:35 Status update from ISOLDE, nTOF facilities (20'+10) - Nikolaos Patronis (University of Ioannina (GR)) Alberto Rodriguez (CERN)  
11:05
Seesion 7 - Verena Kain (CERN) Michi Hostettler (CERN) (until 16:30)
11:05 LHC - is it falling apart? How to get out of the series of unfortunate events? (20'+10') - Lukas Felsberger (CERN)  
11:35 LHC inner triplet fault (10'+10') - Sandrine Le Naour (CERN)  
11:55 QPS and R2E - lessons learned from 2023 and outlook to future ion runs (15'+10') - Jens Steckert (CERN)  
12:20 --- Lunch Break ---
13:50 Recurring faults in the injectors - evolution over the years and plans (15'+10') - Gian Piero Di Giovanni (CERN)  
14:15 Efficient Particle Accelerators - what’s on the horizon? (12') - Konstantinos Papastergiou (CERN)  
14:27 Automating accelerators - evolution since last year (13'+10') - Michael Schenk (CERN)  
14:50 Automated equipment monitoring: status and evolution (15'+10') - Alexander Huschauer (CERN)  
15:15 How to further improve commissioning? Plans for 2024 and beyond (15'+10') - Kevin Shing Bruce Li (CERN)  
15:40 Who wants dedicated LHC filling (10'+10') - Georges Trad (CERN)  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
PM
14:30
Session 2 - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN) Foteini Asvesta (CERN) (until 17:25)
14:30 Losses for LHC beams, up to LHC injection (15'+10') - Yann Dutheil (CERN)  
14:55 Transverse beam quality along the chain for LHC beams (15'+10') - Elleanor Rose Lamb (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
15:20 Ion beam quality and transmission along the chain (15'+10') - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)  
15:45 Transmission of protons fixed target beams in 2023, and beyond (15'+10') - Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40 Refining longitudinal beam parameters along the chain (15'+10') - Simon Albright (CERN)  
17:05 Comparing the BGI and WS transverse profiles (10'+10') - Clara Marie Fleisig (University of Toronto (CA))  
17:25
Session 3 - Carlo Zannini (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN) (until 18:45)
17:25 Overview of intensity limitations in the injectors, transverse (15'+10') - Ingrid Mases Sole (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))  
17:50 Overview of intensity limitations in the injectors, longitudinal (15'+10') - Ivan Karpov (CERN)  
18:15 Limitations from TDIS and other STI equipment (20'+10') - Calum Sharp (CERN)  
20:15 --- Dinner ---
12:20 --- Lunch Break ---
13:50
Session 5 -Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN) Helga Timko (CERN) (until 17:25)
13:50 2023 operational experience and view towards 2024 (20'+10') - Tobias Hakan Bjorn Persson (CERN)  
14:20 Commissioning at the start of the run and after long failures - how can we improve? (15'+10') - David Nisbet (CERN)  
14:45 Emittance evolution and beam stability (15'+10') - Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)  
15:10 RF power reach (15'+10') - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
15:35 Beam losses and BLM thresholds for protons and ions (circulating beam) (15'+10') - Sara Morales Vigo (University of Liverpool (GB))  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Collimation performance with protons and ions (15'+10') - Rongrong Cai (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
16:55 RP optics options for 2024 and beyond (20'+10') - Stephane Fartoukh (CERN)  
17:25
Session 6 - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) (until 18:45)
17:25 Slow extraction R&D and progress at the SPS (15'+10) - Pablo Arrutia (CERN)  
17:50 Slow extraction R&D and progress at the PS (15'+10') - Eliott Philippe Johnson (CERN)  
18:15 Status update from AWAKE & HiRadMat facilities (20'+10') - Alice Marie Goillot  
20:15 --- Dinner ---