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 10 December 2024 (08:00) to Thursday 12 December 2024 (16:00)

Monday 9 December 2024
Tuesday 10 December 2024

10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Introduction - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
Introduction
- Heiko Damerau (CERN)
- Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
10:30 - 10:35
10:35
10:35 - 15:00
Contributions

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)

14:10 Feedback from LHC physics (15'+10') - Federico Alessio (CERN)

14:35 MDs in the CERN accelerator complex (15'+10') - Benoit Salvant (CERN)
15:05
15:05 - 18:35
Contributions

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)

17:10 Beam instrumentation (focus up to 2026) (10'+10') - Inaki Ortega Ruiz (CERN)

17:30 Experience with SPS RF and outlook (10'+10') - 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
Dinner
20:00 - 21:30
Wednesday 11 December 2024
08:30
08:30 - 11:20
Contributions

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') - Chiara Antuono (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Michela Neroni (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

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
11:25 - 16:45
Contributions

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)

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 - Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) Foteini Asvesta (CERN) Helga Timko (CERN)
16:45
16:45 - 18:35
Contributions

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
Dinner
20:00 - 21:30
Thursday 12 December 2024
08:45
08:45 - 11:25
Contributions

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)

11:00 Hysteresis modeling: experience from SPS and prospects for other machines (15'+10') - Anton Lu (Technische Universität Wien (AT))
11:30
11:30 - 15:20
Contributions

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)

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 - Alexander Huschauer (CERN) Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)
15:20 Close-out - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
Close-out
- Heiko Damerau (CERN)
- Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)
15:20 - 15:30
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00

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