Name: 14th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, Genoa (Italy), 7-10 October 2024
Start: 2024-10-07T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-10T21:50:00+02:00
Location: No location set

14th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, Genoa (Italy), 7-10 October 2024

from Monday 7 October 2024 (08:00) to Thursday 10 October 2024 (21:50)

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 & Prof. Lucio Rossi - Mauro Gino Taiuti (Università di Genova and INFN Genova) Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

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

09:25 LHC Run 3: achievements and lessons learned - 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 magnets - 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 MCBXF coil and components production at CIEMAT - Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

12:30 MCBXF magnet assembly and powering tests results at CERN - 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 magnet test facility upgrade, commissioning and feedback from test operation - 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 - Rama Calaga (CERN)

16:40 RFD Crab Cavity contribution from the U.S. - Status, issues and delivery dates - Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

17:00 Status of DQW Crab Cavity cryomodules – UK Collaboration - Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB)) Niklas Templeton

17:20 Status of RFD cryomodules - Robert Edward Laxdal

17:40 Status of the UK contributions for Beam Instrumentation and Collimation - 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

09:00 RFD prototype at CERN overview planning - Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)

09:10 RFD-CM Repair overview and highlight - Joanna Sylwia Swieszek Simon Barrière (CERN)

09:40 Experience on NCRs & future expectations - Julien Debeux

10:00 Summary of RFD reviews at CERN - Marco Garlasche (CERN)

10:20 SM18 testing of RFD prototype & challenges - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN) Amelia Veronica Edwards (Lancaster University)

10:40 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 Qualification of the first Cold Powering System for the HL-LHC triplets - Amalia Ballarino (CERN)

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

14:40 WP6B outlook in 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 - Cedric Hernalsteens (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 magnet tests: Progress on qualification tests and status of benches - 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 Test results of MQXF series magnets at CERN - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)

17:40 Effects of pre-loading on magnet performance in MQXFS model magnets - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room 0A
Contributions

16:00 Services integration 20'+10' - Oliver Boettcher (CERN)

16:30 Interface specification 20'+10' - Jaime Perez Espinos (CERN)

17:00 Alignment of TAXS and VAX 20'+10' - Dirk Mergelkuhl (CERN)

17:30 RP considerations 20'+10' - Angelo Infantino (CERN) Francisco Sanchez Galan (CERN)

18:00 Remote manipulation of VAX modules 20'+10' - Sergio Di Giovannantonio (CERN)
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 Engineering specifications for HL-LHC WP4: status and open discussion - 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 Engineering issues for the RFD CM production at TRIUMF - Oliver Law (TRIUMF)
19:30

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

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

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

09:30 Beam loss limitations: overview and proposal of changes - Sara Morales Vigo

10:00 HL-LHC BLM system development status update - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room 4L
Contributions

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

08:50 Controls and software 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 Sorting options for HL-LHC magnets - Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

10:00 Linear imperfections of D2 FQ: impact and correction strategies - 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 - Amelia Veronica Edwards (Lancaster University)

09:50 Crab cavity frequency tuner & challenges - Kurt Artoos (CERN)

10:10 Preparation for RFD cavity and CM testing at TRIUMF - Zhongyuan Yao (TRIUMF) Zhongyuan Yao (TRIUMF)
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 4D
Contributions

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

11:30 Expected performance of the new BPM system in IP1/5 - 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 4L
Contributions

11:00 Cryo magnet installation into the IT String - Sandrine Le Naour (CERN)

11:30 IST and SCT in the IT String: results - Samer Yammine (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 Naeem Huque

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

11:40 RF power for crab cavities & challenges - Eric Montesinos (CERN)

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

14:00 Performance of the BGC in the LHC - Daniele Butti

14:30 Optimised BGC for HL-LHC - Raymond Veness (CERN)

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 - Thibaut Lefevre (CERN) Tom Levens (CERN)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Room 4D
Contributions

14:00 Dynamic aperture of the new HL-LHC baseline - Sofia Kostoglou (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 Update on electron cloud studies - Lotta Mether (CERN)

15:40 HL-LHC radiation level studies and 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 Q1/Q3 production challenges - Alfred Nobrega (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:30 Magnetic center alignment results - Joseph DiMarco
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

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

14:20 Alignment analysis of the RFD prototype during cold test - 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 - Kurt Artoos (CERN)

15:40 Studies for transport of crab cavities equipment - 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 Summary of the Beam halo working group, specifications and detector options - Federico Roncarolo (CERN)

17:00 Test of the SR coronagraph on LHC - Jan Pucek ((MPP/TUM/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 - Penelope Matilde Quassolo (CERN)
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

16:30 Canada RFD CM series challenges – procurements and schedule - Robert Edward Laxdal

16:50 RFD-SPS Cryomodule: QA lessons learnt & future challenges - Carlos Manuel Guerra Granjeiro (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

17:10 UK series cryomodules procurements, schedule and challenges discussion - Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB)) Niklas Templeton

17:30 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 uQDS, PDSU and PDSU-BIS concentrator interface - Lukas Felsberger (CERN)

10:10 Electrical Quality Assurance of the HL-LHC - Gregory Hugh West
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room Vallega
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room 0B
Contributions

08:30 LHC longitudinal impedance studies - Michail Zampetakis (CERN)

08:50 LHC longitudinal impedance measurement through Schottky spectra - Christophe Lannoy (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

09:10 LHC RF power studies & MD results - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

09:30 Projections for 2025 & HL-LHC - Helga Timko (CERN)

09:50 SPS-CC instability studies & RF feedback gain along HL cycle - Lorenzo Giacomel (CERN)

10:10 CC-PU specification update - Wolfgang Hofle (CERN)
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

08:30 Status of manufacturing TAS, TAXN & anciliairies 20'+5' - Antonio Alonso (CERN)

08:55 Vacuum chambers : TAXS, TAXN 20'+5' - Jaime Perez Espinos (CERN) Marco Morrone (CERN)

09:20 VAXS modules 20'+5' - Jaime Perez Espinos (CERN)

09:45 VAXBOX 20'+5' - Antonio Alonso (CERN)

10:10 Wrap-up - Vincent Baglin (CERN) Francisco Sanchez Galan (CERN)
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 Alignment analysis on the low-beta quadrupoles during cold test - 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
Contributions

11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula Benvenuto
Contributions

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

11:18 Upgrade studies for the TCDS in IR6 - Helene Guerin

11:36 Update on failure case studies - Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)

11:54 Damage of sc. sample coils due to beam impact - David Gancarcik (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

12:12 Collimators production strategy and implementation - Carla Piccinni (CERN)
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

19:30 Steering Committee Dinner
Steering Committee Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Trattoria Rosmarino

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