Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2023

from Tuesday, December 5, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, December 7, 2023 (6:00 PM)
Royal Plaza Montreux & Spa

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 5, 2023
Dec 6, 2023
Dec 7, 2023
AM
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM
Session 1 - Bettina Mikulec (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) (until 2:30 PM) ()
10:30 AM Summary of FT operation and issues (20'+10') - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)   ()
11:00 AM Three years with upgraded injectors: LIU beam ramp-up and benefits to FT beams (20'+10') - Hannes Bartosik (CERN)   ()
11:30 AM Summary of LHC operation: issues and prospects for Run 3 (20'+10') - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)   ()
12:00 PM LHC experiments feedback from 2023 and desiderata 2024 (20'+10') - Filip Moortgat (CERN)   ()
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM FT experiments feedback from 2023 and Run 3 outlook (20'+10') - Eva Barbara Holzer (CERN)   ()
8:30 AM
Session 3 - Carlo Zannini (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN) (until 9:30 AM) ()
8:30 AM Limitations from kicker magnets (20'+10') - Giorgia Favia (CERN)   ()
9:00 AM Limitations from LHC RF fingers (20'+10') - Chiara Antuono (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Patrick Krkotic   ()
9:30 AM
Session 4 - Benjamin Bradu (CERN) Lotta Mether (CERN) (until 12:20 PM) ()
9:30 AM Electron clouds in the injectors (20'+10') - Giovanni Iadarola (CERN)   ()
10:00 AM Electron clouds impact on LHC cryogenics (20'+10') - Laurent Delprat (CERN)   ()
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Pilot vacuum sector (15'+10) - Mr Quentin Duong (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   ()
11:25 AM Surfaces and e-clouds (15'+10') - Valentine Petit (CERN)   ()
11:50 AM Electron clouds in the LHC (20'+10') - Konstantinos Paraschou (CERN)   ()
8:45 AM
Session 6 - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) (until 11:05 AM) ()
8:45 AM Transfer line equipment and instrumentation missing or in need of upgrade (15'+10') - Maarten Van Dijk (CERN)   ()
9:10 AM Progress and remaining issues with the secondary beamlines (20'+10') - Laurie Nevay (CERN) Luke Aidan Dyks (CERN)   ()
9:40 AM Status update from ELENA/AD and APOC WG (15'+10') - Davide Gamba (CERN)   ()
10:05 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:35 AM Status update from ISOLDE, nTOF facilities (20'+10) - Nikolaos Patronis (University of Ioannina (GR)) Alberto Rodriguez (CERN)   ()
11:05 AM
Seesion 7 - Verena Kain (CERN) Michi Hostettler (CERN) (until 4:30 PM) ()
11:05 AM LHC - is it falling apart? How to get out of the series of unfortunate events? (20'+10') - Lukas Felsberger (CERN)   ()
11:35 AM LHC inner triplet fault (10'+10') - Sandrine Le Naour (CERN)   ()
11:55 AM QPS and R2E - lessons learned from 2023 and outlook to future ion runs (15'+10') - Jens Steckert (CERN)   ()
12:20 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:50 PM Recurring faults in the injectors - evolution over the years and plans (15'+10') - Gian Piero Di Giovanni (CERN)   ()
2:15 PM Efficient Particle Accelerators - what’s on the horizon? (12') - Konstantinos Papastergiou (CERN)   ()
2:27 PM Automating accelerators - evolution since last year (13'+10') - Michael Schenk (CERN)   ()
2:50 PM Automated equipment monitoring: status and evolution (15'+10') - Alexander Huschauer (CERN)   ()
3:15 PM How to further improve commissioning? Plans for 2024 and beyond (15'+10') - Kevin Shing Bruce Li (CERN)   ()
3:40 PM Who wants dedicated LHC filling (10'+10') - Georges Trad (CERN)   ()
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
PM
2:30 PM
Session 2 - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN) Foteini Asvesta (CERN) (until 5:25 PM) ()
2:30 PM Losses for LHC beams, up to LHC injection (15'+10') - Yann Dutheil (CERN)   ()
2:55 PM Transverse beam quality along the chain for LHC beams (15'+10') - Elleanor Rose Lamb (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))   ()
3:20 PM Ion beam quality and transmission along the chain (15'+10') - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)   ()
3:45 PM Transmission of protons fixed target beams in 2023, and beyond (15'+10') - Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)   ()
4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:40 PM Refining longitudinal beam parameters along the chain (15'+10') - Simon Albright (CERN)   ()
5:05 PM Comparing the BGI and WS transverse profiles (10'+10') - Clara Marie Fleisig (University of Toronto (CA))   ()
5:25 PM
Session 3 - Carlo Zannini (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN) (until 6:45 PM) ()
5:25 PM Overview of intensity limitations in the injectors, transverse (15'+10') - Ingrid Mases Sole (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))   ()
5:50 PM Overview of intensity limitations in the injectors, longitudinal (15'+10') - Ivan Karpov (CERN)   ()
6:15 PM Limitations from TDIS and other STI equipment (20'+10') - Calum Sharp (CERN)   ()
8:15 PM --- Dinner ---
12:20 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:50 PM
Session 5 -Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN) Helga Timko (CERN) (until 5:25 PM) ()
1:50 PM 2023 operational experience and view towards 2024 (20'+10') - Tobias Hakan Bjorn Persson (CERN)   ()
2:20 PM Commissioning at the start of the run and after long failures - how can we improve? (15'+10') - David Nisbet (CERN)   ()
2:45 PM Emittance evolution and beam stability (15'+10') - Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)   ()
3:10 PM RF power reach (15'+10') - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))   ()
3:35 PM Beam losses and BLM thresholds for protons and ions (circulating beam) (15'+10') - Sara Morales Vigo (University of Liverpool (GB))   ()
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Collimation performance with protons and ions (15'+10') - Rongrong Cai (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))   ()
4:55 PM RP optics options for 2024 and beyond (20'+10') - Stephane Fartoukh (CERN)   ()
5:25 PM
Session 6 - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) (until 6:45 PM) ()
5:25 PM Slow extraction R&D and progress at the SPS (15'+10) - Pablo Arrutia (CERN)   ()
5:50 PM Slow extraction R&D and progress at the PS (15'+10') - Eliott Philippe Johnson (CERN)   ()
6:15 PM Status update from AWAKE & HiRadMat facilities (20'+10') - Alice Marie Goillot   ()
8:15 PM --- Dinner ---