Name: Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2024
Start: 2024-12-10T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-12T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Royal Plaza Montreux & Spa

Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2024

from Tuesday, December 10, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, December 12, 2024 (4:00 PM)

Monday, December 9, 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Introduction - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
Introduction
- Heiko Damerau (CERN)
- Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
10:30 AM - 10:35 AM
10:35 AM Setting the Scene
10:35 AM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

10:35 AM Injectors performance overview and highlights in 2024 (20'+10') - Kevin Shing Bruce Li (CERN)

11:05 AM Beam lines, feedback from operations (20'+10') - Dipanwita Banerjee (CERN)

11:35 AM AD/ELENA - ISOLDE - AWAKE - CLEAR, feedback from operations (20'+10') - Davide Gamba (CERN)

12:05 PM Feedback from FT experiments (10'+10') - Dragoslav Lazic (Boston University (US))

12:25 PM LHC performance overview and highlights in 2024 (15'+10') - Delphine Jacquet (CERN)

2:10 PM Feedback from LHC physics (15'+10') - Federico Alessio (CERN)

2:35 PM MDs in the CERN accelerator complex (15'+10') - Benoit Salvant (CERN)
3:05 PM Operation <-> Equipment
3:05 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

3:05 PM Consequences and opportunities of Run 3 extension (15'+10') - Panos Zisopoulos (CERN)

3:30 PM Fault tracking in 2024 (20'+10') - Jack Heron (CERN)

4:00 PM Cryogenics in LHC (10'+10') - Boyan-Kaloyanov Naydenov Popov (CERN)

4:20 PM Noise and regulation in SPS power converters (10'+10') - Charles-Mathieu Genton (CERN)

5:10 PM Beam instrumentation (focus up to 2026) (10'+10') - Inaki Ortega Ruiz (CERN)

5:30 PM Experience with SPS RF and outlook (10'+10') - Sam Pitman (CERN)

5:50 PM ABT Equipment: Operational Insights and Future Perspective (10'+10') - Giorgia Favia (CERN)

6:10 PM Lessons learnt, ideas and best practises for new equipment design (15'+10') - Rui Franqueira Ximenes (CERN)
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
8:30 AM Beam dynamics modelling <-> Equipment
8:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Longitudinal modelling and operational optimisation across the complex (20'+10') - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

9:00 AM Electron cloud (20'+10') - Lotta Mether (CERN)

9:30 AM Impedance modelling and equipment design (20'+10') - Chiara Antuono (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Michela Neroni (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

10:30 AM Benchmarking of optics and magnetic models (15'+10') - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)

10:55 AM Beam loss monitor thresholds (15'+10') - Sara Morales Vigo
11:25 AM Beam dynamics modelling <-> Operation
11:25 AM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

11:25 AM Fixed target beams and challenges for the future (15'+10') - Pablo Arrutia (CERN)

11:50 AM Ions: overview and outlook accross the complex (20'+10') - Maciej Slupecki (CERN)

12:20 PM Beam quality preservation for LHC beams (20'+10') - Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

2:10 PM Collimation aspects in the LHC and SPS (15'+10) - Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN)

2:35 PM Optics aspects in the accelerator complex (20'+10') - Felix Simon Carlier (CERN)

3:05 PM LHC: issues, mitigations (15'+10') - Andrea Calia (CERN)

3:30 PM LHC: configuration 2025/26, intensity ramp-up, polarity reversal, optics (20'+10') - Xavier Buffat (CERN)

4:00 PM Session 2/3 discussion session - Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) Foteini Asvesta (CERN) Helga Timko (CERN)
4:45 PM Controls, data and automation <-> Operation
4:45 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Settings management – status and plans (15'+10') - Michi Hostettler (CERN)

5:10 PM Dynamic beam scheduling and automated LHC filling (20'+10') - Amaury Beeckman

5:40 PM Results and plans for integration of automation and optimization in operation (20'+10') - Georges Trad (CERN)

6:10 PM OP feedback and recommendations as we move towards automation (15'+10') - Denis Gerard Cotte (CERN)
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, December 12, 2024
8:45 AM Beam dynamics modelling <-> Controls, data and automation
8:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Beam physics/simulation software evolution: challenges, opportunities (20'+10') - Szymon Lopaciuk (CERN)

9:15 AM Integrated management of accelerator models: digital thread (15'+10') - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)

9:40 AM Data and computing resources for analysis (15'+10') - Marcin Sobieszek (CERN)

10:05 AM Surrogate models (15'+10') - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)

11:00 AM Hysteresis modeling: experience from SPS and prospects for other machines (15'+10') - Anton Lu (Technische Universität Wien (AT))
11:30 AM Equipment <-> Controls, data and automation
11:30 AM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Time spent on interventions by equipment experts/piquets (15'+10') - Kostas Papastergiou (CERN)

11:55 AM Automatic fault analysis and prognostics (20'+10') - Anti Asko (CERN)

1:50 PM Automation of equipment commissioning, setting up and recovery (20'+10') - Raul Murillo Garcia (CERN)

2:20 PM Automation during the equipment design process - Francisco Huhn (CERN)

2:50 PM Session 5/6 discussion session - Alexander Huschauer (CERN) Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)
3:20 PM Close-out - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
Close-out
- Heiko Damerau (CERN)
- Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM