Conveners
Operation <-> Equipment
- Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN)
- Giulia Papotti (CERN)
Panos Zisopoulos
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 15:05
- focus on injectors only
- risks to be taken, and difficulties to be encountered
- what could be anticipated in 2025/26 to optimise the post LS3 restart? e.g. needed studies
- proposal for a LIU Reliability Run; additional MDs to explore limits?
Jack Heron
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 15:30
- results of fault analysis per machine (including Exp. Areas)
- how are the results used? what is AFT ‘actually’ offering? e.g. proactive maintenance
- follow-up structure and reporting?
- features to be added, feedback from users (tools and automation covered in Session 6)
Boyan-Kaloyanov Naydenov Popov
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 16:00
- IR8 cooling capacity and known limitations, available margins
- follow up on delaying of cryo valve opening (resulting in losses and dumps due to fast growing orbit oscillations, in 2023)
Charles-Mathieu Genton
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 16:20
- mains regulationa and overshoot follow-up
- 50 Hz noise effects on SFTPRO spill, and on protons and ion LHC flat bottom losses;
- prospects for corrections on the hardware side
Inaki Ortega Ruiz
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 17:10
- equipment from commissioning to operation, exploitation and maintenance of existing instrumentation (focus up to 2026)
- HL preparation, NA-CONS and ECN3, ACC-Cons, feedback from BIFT on upcoming
consolidation efforts and items not covered - BSI, BGC, BGI, wire scanners, …
- ion beams
Dr
Sam Pitman
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 17:30
- Thales plants: high failure rates, limited RF power
- status of understanding, solved and open issues, solutions and prospects
Rui Franqueira Ximenes
(CERN)
10/12/2024, 18:10
- highlights of recent equipment designs, bright ideas, i.e. the bright side of the session, what was done right