Name: 14th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, Genoa (Italy), 7-10 October 2024
Start: 2024-10-07T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-10T18:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Monday 7 October 2024

08:00 Registration at DAD
Registration at DAD
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

09:00 Welcome by INFN Genova Director - Mauro Gino Taiuti (Università di Genova and INFN Genova)

09:05 HL-LHC Project status - Oliver Bruning (CERN)

09:25 LHC Run3 operation status - Mike Lamont (CERN)

09:45 Status of US-AUP contribution - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:05 Status of WP3 - Ezio Todesco (CERN)

10:20 Status of MQXFB - Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)

10:40 Status of D2 - Stefania Farinon (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25
Room: Aula San Salvatore
11:25
11:25 - 13:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

11:25 Status of MQXFA - Giorgio Ambrosio (Fermilab)

11:40 Status of LQXFA cold mass, cryostating and cold test - Sandor Feher

11:55 Status of D1 - Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK)

12:15 Status of MCBXF coil production - Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

12:30 MCBXF assembly - Juan Carlos Perez (CERN)

12:45 Status of CCT magnets - Qingjin Xu
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:50
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

14:00 Summary and status for the HL-LHC Collaborations - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

14:20 Update on collimation losses and halo limitations - Pascal Hermes (CERN)

14:40 Run 4 operational scenario - Nicolas Mounet (CERN)

15:00 IT String planning and installation status - Marta Bajko (CERN)

15:30 SM18 test facility upgrade - Gerard Willering (CERN)
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Aula San Salvatore
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

16:20 Status of WP4 incl. RI industrialization - Rama Calaga (CERN)

16:40 US-AUP contribution and Zanon contract - Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

17:00 Status of DQW cryomodules - Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

17:20 Status of RFD cryomodules - Robert Edward Laxdal

17:40 Status of the UK contributions for beam instrumentation and loss studies - Stephen Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Room: Terrazza Mirador
Tuesday 8 October 2024

08:30 Transfer from city centre to ASG
Transfer from city centre to ASG
08:30 - 09:00
08:50
08:50 - 11:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

08:50 RFD-CM Repair overview and highlight - Joanna Sylwia Swieszek Simon Barrière (CERN)

09:10 Experience on NCRs & future expectations - Julien Debeux

09:30 Summary of RFD reviews at CERN - Marco Garlasche (CERN) Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)

09:50 SM18 validation of RFD Prototype for SPS tests - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN) Amelia Veronica Edwards (Lancaster University)

10:10 RF power experience from RFD & future steps - Eric Montesinos (CERN)

10:30 Discussion
09:00 Visit of ASG
Visit of ASG
09:00 - 10:30

10:30 Transfer from ASG to DAD
Transfer from ASG to DAD
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula San Salvatore
11:30
11:30 - 12:50
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

11:30 HL-LHC Baseline and TCC summary - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)

11:50 Procurement strategy and quality reporting - Hector Garcia Gavela (CERN)

12:10 LS3 installation plans and equipment readiness - Paolo Fessia (CERN)

12:30 Cryogenics : status and perspective towards installation - Vanessa Gahier (CERN)
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

14:00 Superconducting link & feedbox test results - Amalia Ballarino (CERN)

14:20 WP12 update with a focus on beam screen production - Vincent Baglin (CERN)

14:40 WP6B in preparation for IT String operation - Michele Martino (CERN)

15:00 Civil engineering wrap up and status on tech. infra. - Laurent Jean Tavian (CERN)

15:20 Progress with the HL beam dump - Nicola Solieri (CERN)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Chiostro

16:00

16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room Vallega
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

16:00 Integrated luminosity of the new HL-LHC baseline - Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

16:20 Collimation MD results - Bjorn Hans Filip Lindstrom (University of London (GB))

16:40 Optics MD results for the new HL baseline - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)

17:00 Collimator impedance measurements - Lorenzo Giacomel (CERN)

17:20 Recap. of failure cases for round and flat optics - Daniel Wollmann (CERN)

17:40 Lessons learned from LHC optics control in view of HL-LHC - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

16:00 SM18 testing update (overall status bench upgrade, magnets tested and to be tested, main test results (not MQXF)) - Gerard Willering (CERN)

16:25 Production testing summary of the MQXFA magnets - Piyush Joshi

16:50 Horizontal test results of LQXFA/B02 and plans for testing LQXFA/B03 - Guram Chlachidze

17:15 Horizontal test results at CERN - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)

17:40 MQXFS test results - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN) Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Room 0A
Contributions

16:00 Interface specification

16:30 RP considerations

17:00 Services integration

17:30 Alignment- constraints and requirements
16:10
16:10 - 17:50
Room: Room 4D
Contributions

16:10 RFD NCRs & future mitigation - Edward Stephen Jordan (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

16:30 Specifications updates - Luca Dassa (CERN)

16:50 Cavity Specification drawings / Metrology - Raphael Leuxe (CERN)

17:10 WP4 discussion on US-AUP/TRIUMF schedule - Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

17:30 Preparation of cavities before string assembly at TRIUMF (speaker tbc)
19:30

19:30 - 21:30
Room: Locanda Pesciolino
Wednesday 9 October 2024
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room 4L
Contributions

08:30 Overview of WP13 activities and installation plans during LS3 - Raymond Veness (CERN)

09:00 Status and strategy for the BLM ionisation production - Gerhard Schneider (CERN)

09:30 Modifications on the BLM system in IP1/5 for HL beams - Sara Morales Vigo

10:00 Beam loss monitor sensivity need (detector and electronic ) - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room 4D
Contributions

08:30 Organisation of the operation of the IT String - Nicolas Heredia Garcia (CERN)

08:50 Control and sofware for the HWC and operation of the IT String - Sebastien Blanchard (CERN)

09:10 From HWC of the IT String to the HWC of the HL-LHC: status and preparation - Samer Yammine (CERN)

09:40 Safe intervention during operation on the electrical circuits of the IT String - Davide Bozzini (CERN)

10:00 Sc link Installation into the IT String - Yann Leclercq (CERN)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

08:30 Field quality updates, NbTi - Ezio Todesco (CERN)

09:00 Field quality updates, including integral gradient and voltage spikes, Nb3Sn - Lucio Fiscarelli (CERN)

09:30 FQ, TF and sorting for all magnets - Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN) Joschua Werner Dilly (CERN)

10:00 Correction and mitigation measures - Joschua Werner Dilly (CERN)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

08:30 RFD industrial production challenges - Manuele Narduzzi Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

08:50 DQW industrial production challenges - Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)

09:10 RFD pre-series cavity testing - Alex Castilla (Lancaster University (GB))

09:30 DQW series cavity testing - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN) Amelia Veronica Edwards (Lancaster University)

09:50 BCP of HOM couplers - Leonel Marques Antunes Ferreira (CERN)

10:10 Field emission analysis on DQW cavities (speaker tbc)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Chiostro

11:00

11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room Vallega
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 4L
Contributions

11:00 Update on the IP BPM production and delivery schedule - Emma Elizabeth Quinn

11:30 Expected performance (resolution and accuracy) of the BPM electronic read-out system - Michal Krupa (CERN)

12:00 Final design of the luminosity monitor in TAXN and experience with prototype detectro during Run3 - Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)
11:00 - 12:10
Room: Room 4D
Contributions

11:00 IST and SCT in the IT String: results - Samer Yammine (CERN)

11:20 Cryo magnet installation into the IT String - Sandrine Le Naour (CERN)

11:50 Quality Assurance / Quality Control in the IT String - Nicolas Heredia Garcia (CERN)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

11:00 RFD HOM coupler challenges - Naeem Abdul Huque

11:20 DQW & RFD HOM couplers fabrication challenges - Simon Barrière (CERN)

11:40 Tuner experiences from RFD & next steps - Kurt Artoos (CERN)

12:00 LLRF & Controls - Gregoire Hagmann (CERN) Andy Butterworth (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Room 4L
Contributions

14:00 Optimised BGC for HL (speaker tbc)

14:30 Performance of the BGC in the LHC - Daniele Butti

15:00 Performance of the EO BPM prototype in the SPS - Max Bosman (University of London (GB))

15:30 Reviewing the high bandwidth PU technology - Tom Levens (CERN)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Room 4D
Contributions

14:00 Dynamic aperture of the new HL-LHC baseline - Colas Droin (CERN)

14:20 Collimation performance aspects of HL (tight and relaxed settings, round and flat optics) - Andre Donadon Servelle (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

14:40 Halo studies including hierarchy breakage - Carlo Emilio Montanari (University of Manchester (GB))

15:00 High intensity MDs and operational experience - Xavier Buffat (CERN)

15:20 e-cloud - Lotta Mether (CERN)

15:40 Update of the HL-LHC radiation level specification document - Giuseppe Lerner (CERN)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

14:00 Status of cold mass activities at CERN (all HL-LHC WP3) - Herve Prin (CERN)

14:30 Status of cryostat activities at CERN (all HL-LHC WP3) - Delio Ramos (CERN)

15:00 Cold mass and cryostat activities at FNAL - Sandor Feher
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

14:00 Series cryomodule design - Teddy Capelli (CERN)

14:20 Cavity/cryomodule alignment RFD & series - Vivien Rude (CERN)

14:40 Vacuum, preparations for collaborations & status - Giuseppe Bregliozzi (CERN)

15:00 Crab cavities cryogenics – status and perspective - Vanessa Gahier (CERN)

15:20 Mechanical measurements, experience during transport and testing of cryomodules - Michael Guinchard (CERN)

15:40 Calculations for equipment during transport - Teresa Guillen Hernandez (CERN)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Chiostro
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Room 4L
Contributions

16:30 Test of the SR coronagraph on LHC - Jan Pucek ((MPP/TUM/CERN))

17:00 Summary of the Beam halo working group, specifications and detector options - Federico Roncarolo (CERN)

17:30 Updated design of the HL Beam gas ionization monitor - James Storey (CERN)
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

16:30 MQXFA fabrication status and schedule - Giorgio Ambrosio (Fermilab)

16:55 MQXFA magnet assembly and preload - Paolo Ferracin Paolo Ferracin

17:15 MQXFB coil fabrication - Nicholas Lusa (CERN)

17:35 MQXFB magnet assembly
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

16:30 Canada CM-series challenges, schedule & discussions, procurement, instrumentation, QA/QC - Robert Edward Laxdal

16:50 UK CM-series challenges, schedule & discussions, procurement, instrumentation, QA/QC - Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

17:10 Discussion - Cryomodules
19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Thursday 10 October 2024
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

08:30 MCF activities related to magnet circuit instrumentation - Roland Piccin (CERN)

08:50 QH strip resistances and circuit parameters in the MQXF magnets - Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)

09:10 Experience with WP6B equipment operation in the HL-LHC IT String - Hugues Thiesen (CERN)

09:30 PDSU-CLIQ/DQHDS interlocking via BIS concentrator - Tomasz Podzorny (CERN)

09:50 Reliability studies on PDSU and PDSU-BIS concentrator interface - Lukas Felsberger (CERN)

10:10 ElQA testing for HL-LHC - Gregory Hugh West
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room Vallega
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room 0B
Contributions

08:30 SPS-CC instability studies & RF feedback gain along HL cycle - Lorenzo Giacomel (CERN)

08:50 CC-PU specification update - Wolfgang Hofle (CERN) Michal Krupa (CERN)

09:10 Pressure rise studies, SPS-CC (WP12 speaker tbc)

09:30 LHC RF power studies & MD results - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

09:50 LHC longitudinal impedance studies - Michail Zampetakis (CERN)

10:10 Projections for 2025 & HL-LHC - Helga Timko (CERN)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

08:30 Absorbers: TAXS, TAXN

09:00 Vacuum chambers : TAXS, TAXN

09:30 VAX box

10:00 VAXS modules
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Chiostro
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula San Salvatore
Contributions

11:00 Geometrical axis - Vivien Rude (CERN)

11:25 Magnetic axis - Carlo Petrone (CERN)

11:50 Impact of mechanical and magnetic measurements for performance estimates - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)

12:10 Status of FRAS - Mateusz Sosin (CERN)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 0B
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

11:00 Power deposition studies for proton losses in IR3 and IR7 - Volodymyr Rodin (CERN)

11:20 Upgrade studies for the TCDS in IR6 - Helene Guerin

11:40 Update on failure case studies - Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)

12:00 Damage of sc. sample coils due to beam impact - David Gancarcik (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
12:30

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Aula San Salvatore

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00

15:00

15:00 - 17:00
Room: Room Vallega

17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Chiostro

17:30

17:30 - 18:30
Room: Room Vallega