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

7 Oct 2024, 08:00 → 10 Oct 2024, 18:30 Europe/Rome

Following its travel overseas to Canada last year, the HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting returns to Europe in 2024. Jointly organised by INFN and CERN, the 14th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting will take place in person in Genoa, Italy from 7th to 10th October 2024. This edition will provide the occasion to showcase the successful production and validation of the first series D2 magnets, produced by ASG in Genoa as an in-kind contribution by INFN (Italy), as well as the completion of production of the MgB2 wires for the superconducting link by ASG. Based on the traditional programme with plenary and work package parallel sessions, this meeting will serve as a technical update forum for the 8th Cost and Schedule Review, scheduled for 11th to 14th November 2024. The main objectives will be to update all HiLumi collaborators on the advancement of the series production of components for the project, to highlight the progress made in the transition from prototype validation to series production,  to showcase the status of the IT String test stand installation at CERN and to update all collaborators on the latest schedule changes. As in previous editions, the meeting will include a restricted session for the 14th HL-LHC Collaboration Board in the afternoon of Tuesday, 8th October 2024. This annual meeting foresees a Welcome drink on Monday 7th October, a visit to the ASG facilities in the morning of Tuesday 8th October, and a common banquet on Wednesday 9th October. Participation in the meeting is by invitation only, and registration is mandatory and without fee. Data Privacy Protection Policy : OC no.11 - ATS Events Privacy Notice

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Monday, 7 October

08:00 → 09:00 Registration at DAD

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary session 1 - Monday AM

09:00 Welcome by INFN Genova Director

Speaker: Mauro Gino Taiuti (Università di Genova and INFN Genova)

09:05 HL-LHC Project status

Speaker: Oliver Bruning (CERN)

09:25 LHC Run3 operation status

Speaker: Mike Lamont (CERN)

09:45 Status of US-AUP contribution

Speaker: Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:05 Status of WP3

Speaker: Ezio Todesco (CERN)

10:20 Status of MQXFB

Speaker: Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)

10:40 Status of D2

Speaker: Stefania Farinon (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

11:00 → 11:25 Coffee break

11:25 → 13:00 Plenary session 2 - Monday AM

11:25 Status of MQXFA

Speaker: Giorgio Ambrosio (Fermilab)

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

Speaker: Sandor Feher

11:55 Status of D1

Speaker: Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK)

12:15 Status of MCBXF coil production

Speaker: Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

12:30 MCBXF assembly

Speaker: Juan Carlos Perez (CERN)

12:45 Status of CCT magnets

Speaker: Qingjin Xu

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:50 Plenary session 1 - Monday PM

14:00 Summary and status for the HL-LHC Collaborations

Speaker: Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

14:20 Update on collimation losses and halo limitations

Speaker: Pascal Hermes (CERN)

14:40 Run 4 operational scenario

Speaker: Nicolas Mounet (CERN)

15:00 IT String planning and installation status

Speaker: Marta Bajko (CERN)

15:30 SM18 test facility upgrade

Speaker: Gerard Willering (CERN)

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 18:00 Plenary session 2 - Monday PM

16:20 Status of WP4 incl. RI industrialization

Speaker: Rama Calaga (CERN)

16:40 US-AUP contribution and Zanon contract

Speaker: Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

17:00 Status of DQW cryomodules

Speaker: Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

17:20 Status of RFD cryomodules

Speaker: Robert Edward Laxdal

17:40 Status of the UK contributions for beam instrumentation and loss studies

Speaker: Stephen Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome Drink

Tuesday, 8 October

08:30 → 09:00 Transfer from city centre to ASG

08:50 → 11:00 WP4 - Tuesday AM

08:50 RFD-CM Repair overview and highlight

Speakers: Joanna Sylwia Swieszek, Simon Barrière (CERN)

09:10 Experience on NCRs & future expectations

Speaker: Julien Debeux

09:30 Summary of RFD reviews at CERN

Speakers: Marco Garlasche (CERN), Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)

09:50 SM18 validation of RFD Prototype for SPS tests

Speakers: Katarzyna Turaj (CERN), Amelia Veronica Edwards (Lancaster University)

10:10 RF power experience from RFD & future steps

Speaker: Eric Montesinos (CERN)

10:30 Discussion

09:00 → 10:30 Visit of ASG

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

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:50 Plenary session 1 - Tuesday AM

11:30 HL-LHC Baseline and TCC summary

Speaker: Markus Zerlauth (CERN)

11:50 Procurement strategy and quality reporting

Speaker: Hector Garcia Gavela (CERN)

12:10 LS3 installation plans and equipment readiness

Speaker: Paolo Fessia (CERN)

12:30 Update in view of cryogenics installation

Speaker: Vanessa Gahier (CERN)

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:40 Plenary session 1 - Tuesday PM

14:00 Superconducting link & feedbox test results

Speaker: Amalia Ballarino (CERN)

14:20 WP12 update with a focus on beam screen production

Speaker: Vincent Baglin (CERN)

14:40 WP6B in preparation for IT String operation

Speaker: Michele Martino (CERN)

15:00 Civil engineering wrap up and status on tech. infra.

Speaker: Laurent Jean Tavian (CERN)

15:20 Progress with the HL beam dump

Speaker: Nicola Solieri (CERN)

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:30 Collaboration Board (restricted)

16:00 → 18:00 WP2/WP5/WP7

16:00 Integrated luminosity of the new HL-LHC baseline

Speaker: Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

16:20 Collimation MD results

Speaker: Bjorn Hans Filip Lindstrom (University of London (GB))

16:40 Optics MD results for the new HL baseline

Speaker: Riccardo De Maria (CERN)

17:00 Collimator impedance measurements

Speaker: Lorenzo Giacomel (CERN)

17:20 Recap. of failure cases for round and flat optics

Speaker: Daniel Wollmann (CERN)

16:00 → 18:00 WP3 - Cold powering tests - Tuesday PM

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

Speaker: Gerard Willering (CERN)

16:25 Production testing summary of the MQXFA magnets

Speaker: Piyush Joshi

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

Speaker: Guram Chlachidze

17:15 Horizontal test results at CERN

Speaker: Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)

17:40 MQXFS test results

Speakers: Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN), Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)

16:00 → 18:00 WP8/WP12 - Operational aspects of TAXS region - Tuesday PM

16:00 Interface specification

16:30 RP considerations

17:00 Services integration

17:30 Alignment- constraints and requirements

16:10 → 17:50 WP4 - Discussion - Tuesday PM

16:10 RFD NCRs & future mitigation

Speaker: Edward Stephen Jordan (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

16:30 Specifications updates

Speaker: Luca Dassa (CERN)

16:50 Cavity Specification drawings / Metrology

Speaker: Raphael Leuxe (CERN)

17:10 WP4 discussion on US-AUP/TRIUMF schedule

Speaker: Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

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

19:30 → 21:30 HLCB Dinner (by invitation)

Wednesday, 9 October

08:30 → 10:30 WP13 - Wednesday AM Part 1

08:30 Overview of WP13 activities and installation plans during LS3

Speaker: Raymond Veness (CERN)

09:00 Status and strategy for the BLM ionisation production

Speaker: Gerhard Schneider (CERN)

09:30 Modifications on the BLM system in IP1/5 for HL beams

Speaker: Sara Morales Vigo

10:00 Beam loss monitor sensivity need (detector and electronic )

Speaker: Christos Zamantzas (CERN)

08:30 → 10:30 WP16 - Wednesday AM

08:30 Safe intervention during operation on the electrical circuits of the IT String

08:50 Control and sofware for the HWC and operation of the IT STRING

09:10 From HWC of the IT String to the HWC of the HL-LHC: status and preparation

09:30 Sc link Installation into the IT String

09:50 Organisation of the operation of the IT String

10:10 IST and SCT in the IT String: results

08:30 → 10:30 WP2/WP3 - Wednesday AM

08:30 Field quality updates, NbTi

Speaker: Ezio Todesco (CERN)

09:00 Field quality updates, including integral gradient and voltage spikes, Nb3Sn

Speaker: Lucio Fiscarelli (CERN)

09:30 FQ, TF and sorting for all magnets

Speakers: Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN), Joschua Werner Dilly (CERN)

10:00 Correction and mitigation measures

08:30 → 10:30 WP4 - Wednesday AM Part 1

08:30 RFD Industrial production challenges

Speakers: Manuele Narduzzi, Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab)

08:50 DQW industrial production challenges

Speaker: Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)

09:10 RFD pre-series cavity testing

Speaker: Alex Castilla (Lancaster University (GB))

09:30 DQW series cavity testing

Speakers: Katarzyna Turaj (CERN), Amelia Veronica Edwards (Lancaster University)

09:50 BCP of HOM couplers

Speaker: Leonel Marques Antunes Ferreira (CERN)

10:10 Field emission analysis on DQW cavities (speaker tbc)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Steering Committee with INFN

11:00 → 12:30 WP13 - Wednesday AM Part 2

11:00 Update on the IP BPM production and delivery schedule

Speaker: Emma Elizabeth Quinn

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

Speaker: Michal Krupa (CERN)

12:00 Final design of the luminosity monitor in TAXN and experience with prototype detectro during Run3

Speaker: Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)

11:00 → 12:30 WP4 - Wednesday AM Part 2

11:00 RFD HOM coupler challenges

Speaker: Naeem Abdul Huque

11:20 DQW & RFD HOM couplers fabrication challenges

Speaker: Simon Barrière (CERN)

11:40 Tuner experiences from RFD & next steps

Speaker: Kurt Artoos (CERN)

12:00 LLRF & Controls

Speakers: Gregoire Hagmann (CERN), Andy Butterworth (CERN)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 WP13 - Wednesday PM Part 1

14:00 Optimised BGC for HL (speaker tbc)

14:30 Performance of the BGC in the LHC

Speaker: Daniele Butti

15:00 Performance of the EO BPM prototype in the SPS

Speaker: Max Bosman (University of London (GB))

15:30 Reviewing the high bandwidth PU technology

Speaker: Tom Levens (CERN)

14:00 → 16:00 WP2/WP5/WP7

14:00 Dynamic aperture of the new HL-LHC baseline

Speaker: Colas Droin (CERN)

14:20 Collimation performance aspects of HL (tight and relaxed settings, round and flat optics)

Speaker: Andre Donadon Servelle (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

14:40 Halo studies including hierarchy breakage

Speaker: Carlo Emilio Montanari (University of Manchester (GB))

15:00 High intensity MDs and operational experience

Speaker: Xavier Buffat (CERN)

15:20 e-cloud

Speaker: Lotta Mether (CERN)

14:00 → 16:00 WP3/WP16 - Wednesday PM

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

Speaker: Herve Prin (CERN)

14:25 Status of cryostat activities at CERN (all HL-LHC WP3)

Speaker: Delio Ramos (CERN)

14:50 Cryo magnet installation into the IT String

Speaker: Sandrine Le Naour (CERN)

15:15 QA/QC of WP16; NCR of cryo magnets for the IT String

Speaker: Nicolas Heredia Garcia (CERN)

14:00 → 16:00 WP4/WP12/WP19 - Wednesday AM

14:00 Series cryomodule design

Speaker: Teddy Capelli (CERN)

14:20 Cavity/cryomodule alignment RFD & series

Speaker: Vivien Rude (CERN)

14:40 Vaccum, preparations for collaborations & status

Speaker: Giuseppe Bregliozzi (CERN)

15:00 Cryogenics, preparations for collaborations

Speaker: Vanessa Gahier (CERN)

15:20 Mechnical measurements, experience during transport and testing of cryomodules

Speaker: Michael Guinchard (CERN)

15:40 Calculations for equipment during transport

Speaker: Teresa Guillen Hernandez (CERN)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 WP13 - Wednesday PM Part 2

16:30 Test of the SR coronagraph on LHC

Speaker: Jan Pucek ((MPP/TUM/CERN))

17:00 Summary of the Beam halo working group, specifications and detector options

Speaker: Federico Roncarolo (CERN)

17:30 Updated design of the HL Beam gas ionization monitor

Speaker: James Storey (CERN)

16:30 → 18:00 WP3 MQXF - Wednesday PM

16:30 MQXFA fabrication status and schedule

Speaker: Giorgio Ambrosio (Fermilab)

16:55 MQXFA magnet assembly and preload

Speakers: Paolo Ferracin, Paolo Ferracin

17:15 MQXFB coil fabrication

Speaker: Nicholas Lusa (CERN)

17:35 MQXFB magnet assembly

16:30 → 18:00 WP4 - Wednesday PM

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

Speaker: Robert Edward Laxdal

16:50 UK CM-series challenges, schedule & discussions, procurement, instrumentation, QA/QC

Speaker: Niklas John Templeton (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

17:10 Discussion - Cryomodules

19:00 → 22:00 HL-LHC Banquet

Thursday, 10 October

08:30 → 10:30 MCF (WP7/WP3/WP6B/WP16) - Thursday AM

08:30 MCF activities related to magnet circuit instrumentation

Speaker: Roland Piccin (CERN)

08:50 QH strip resistances and circuit parameters in the MQXF magnets

Speaker: Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)

09:10 Experience with WP6B equipment operation in the HL-LHC IT String

Speaker: Hugues Thiesen (CERN)

09:30 PDSU-CLIQ/DQHDS interlocking via BIS concentrator

Speaker: Tomasz Podzorny (CERN)

09:50 Reliability studies on PDSU and PDSU-BIS concentrator interface

Speaker: Lukas Felsberger (CERN)

10:10 ElQA testing for HL-LHC

Speaker: Gregory Hugh West

08:30 → 10:30 Steering Committee with CIEMAT

08:30 → 10:30 WP2/WP4

08:30 SPS-CC instability studies & RF feedback gain along HL cycle

Speaker: Lorenzo Giacomel (CERN)

08:50 CC-PU specification update

Speakers: Wolfgang Hofle (CERN), Michal Krupa (CERN)

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

09:30 LHC RF power studies & MD results

Speaker: Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

09:50 LHC longitudinal impedance studies

Speaker: Michail Zampetakis (CERN)

10:10 Projections for 2025 & HL-LHC

Speaker: Helga Timko (CERN)

08:30 → 10:30 WP8/WP12 - From production to installation - Thursday AM

08:30 Absorbers: TAXS, TAXN

09:00 Vacuum chambers : TAXS, TAXN

09:30 VAX box

10:00 VAXS modules

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WP2/WP3/WP19 - Thursday AM

11:00 Geometrical axis

Speaker: Vivien Rude (CERN)

11:25 Magnetic axis

Speaker: Carlo Petrone (CERN)

11:50 Impact of mechanical and magnetic measurements for performance estimates

Speaker: Riccardo De Maria (CERN)

12:10 Status of FRAS

Speaker: Mateusz Sosin (CERN)

11:00 → 12:30 WP5/WP7/WP14

12:30 → 13:00 Close out

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 17:00 Steering Committee with US-AUP

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:30 Steering Committee with TRIUMF