Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2024

from Tuesday 10 December 2024 (08:00) to Thursday 12 December 2024 (16:00)
Royal Plaza Montreux & Spa

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024
AM
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Introduction - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)  
10:35
Setting the Scene - Giovanni Rumolo (CERN) Jorg Wenninger (CERN) (until 15:00)
10:35 Injectors performance overview and highlights in 2024 (20'+10') - Kevin Shing Bruce Li (CERN)  
11:05 Beam lines, feedback from operations (20'+10') - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN)  
11:35 AD/ELENA - ISOLDE - AWAKE - CLEAR, feedback from operations (20'+10') - Davide Gamba (CERN)  
12:05 Feedback from FT experiments (10'+10') - Dragoslav Lazic (Boston University (US))  
12:25 LHC performance overview and highlights in 2024 (15'+10') - Delphine Jacquet (CERN)  
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:10 Feedback from LHC physics (15'+10') - Federico Alessio (CERN)  
14:35 MDs in the CERN accelerator complex (15'+10') - Benoit Salvant (CERN)  
08:30
Beam dynamics modelling <-> Equipment - Helga Timko (CERN) Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN) (until 11:20)
08:30 Longitudinal modelling and operational optimisation across the complex (20'+10') - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
09:00 Electron cloud (20'+10') - Lotta Mether (CERN)  
09:30 Impedance modelling and equipment design (20'+10') - Michela Neroni (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Chiara Antuono (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Benchmarking of optics and magnetic models (15'+10') - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)  
10:55 Beam loss monitor thresholds (15'+10') - Sara Morales Vigo  
11:25
Beam dynamics modelling <-> Operation - Foteini Asvesta (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) (until 16:45)
11:25 Fixed target beams and challenges for the future (15'+10') - Pablo Arrutia (CERN)  
11:50 Ions: overview and outlook accross the complex (20'+10') - Maciej Slupecki (CERN)  
12:20 Beam quality preservation for LHC beams (20'+10') - Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)  
12:50 --- Lunch Break ---
14:10 Collimation aspects in the LHC and SPS (15'+10) - Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN)  
14:35 Optics aspects in the accelerator complex (20'+10') - Felix Simon Carlier (CERN)  
15:05 LHC: issues, mitigations (15'+10') - Andrea Calia (CERN)  
15:30 LHC: configuration 2025/26, intensity ramp-up, polarity reversal, optics (20'+10') - Xavier Buffat (CERN)  
16:00 Session 2/3 discussion session - Helga Timko (CERN) Foteini Asvesta (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)  
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
08:45
Beam dynamics modelling <-> Controls, data and automation - Verena Kain (CERN) Giovanni Iadarola (CERN) (until 11:25)
08:45 Beam physics/simulation software evolution: challenges, opportunities (20'+10') - Szymon Lopaciuk (CERN)  
09:15 Integrated management of accelerator models: digital thread (15'+10') - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)  
09:40 Data and computing resources for analysis (15'+10') - Marcin Sobieszek (CERN)  
10:05 Surrogate models (15'+10') - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Hysteresis modeling: experience from SPS and prospects for other machines (15'+10') - Anton Lu (Technische Universität Wien (AT))  
11:30
Equipment <-> Controls, data and automation - Alexander Huschauer (CERN) Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN) (until 15:20)
11:30 Time spent on interventions by equipment experts/piquets (15'+10') - Kostas Papastergiou (CERN)  
11:55 Automatic fault analysis and prognostics (20'+10') - Anti Asko (CERN)  
12:25 --- Lunch Break ---
13:50 Automation of equipment commissioning, setting up and recovery (20'+10') - Raul Murillo Garcia (CERN)  
14:20 Automation during the equipment design process - Francisco Huhn (CERN)  
14:50 Session 5/6 discussion session - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN) Alexander Huschauer (CERN)  
PM
15:05
Operation <-> Equipment - Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN) (until 18:35)
15:05 Consequences and opportunities of Run 3 extension (15'+10') - Panos Zisopoulos (CERN)  
15:30 Fault tracking in 2024 (20'+10') - Jack Heron (CERN)  
16:00 Cryogenics in LHC (10'+10') - Boyan-Kaloyanov Naydenov Popov (CERN)  
16:20 Noise and regulation in SPS power converters (10'+10') - Charles-Mathieu Genton (CERN)  
16:40 --- Coffee Break ---
17:10 Beam instrumentation (focus up to 2026) (10'+10') - Inaki Ortega Ruiz (CERN)  
17:30 Experience with SPS RF and outlook (10'+10') - Dr Sam Pitman (CERN)  
17:50 ABT Equipment: Operational Insights and Future Perspective (10'+10') - Giorgia Favia (CERN)  
18:10 Lessons learnt, ideas and best practises for new equipment design (15'+10') - Rui Franqueira Ximenes (CERN)  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
16:45
Controls, data and automation <-> Operation - Andrea Calia (CERN) Michael Schenk (CERN) (until 18:35)
16:45 Settings management – status and plans (15'+10') - Michi Hostettler (CERN)  
17:10 Dynamic beam scheduling and automated LHC filling (20'+10') - Amaury Beeckman  
17:40 Results and plans for integration of automation and optimization in operation (20'+10') - Georges Trad (CERN)  
18:10 OP feedback and recommendations as we move towards automation (15'+10') - Denis Gerard Cotte (CERN)  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
15:20 Close-out - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---