Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2024

from Tuesday, December 10, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, December 12, 2024 (4:00 PM)
Royal Plaza Montreux & Spa

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 10, 2024
Dec 11, 2024
Dec 12, 2024
AM
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM Introduction - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)  
10:35 AM
Setting the Scene - Giovanni Rumolo (CERN) Jorg Wenninger (CERN) (until 3:00 PM)
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)  
12:50 PM --- Lunch ---
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)  
8:30 AM
Beam dynamics modelling <-> Equipment - Helga Timko (CERN) Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN) (until 11:20 AM)
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') - Michela Neroni (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Chiara Antuono (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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 - Foteini Asvesta (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) (until 4:45 PM)
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)  
12:50 PM --- Lunch Break ---
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 - Helga Timko (CERN) Foteini Asvesta (CERN) Daniele Mirarchi (CERN) Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)  
4:15 PM --- Coffee Break ---
8:45 AM
Beam dynamics modelling <-> Controls, data and automation - Verena Kain (CERN) Giovanni Iadarola (CERN) (until 11:25 AM)
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)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
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 - Alexander Huschauer (CERN) Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN) (until 3:20 PM)
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)  
12:25 PM --- Lunch Break ---
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 - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN) Alexander Huschauer (CERN)  
PM
3:05 PM
Operation <-> Equipment - Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN) Giulia Papotti (CERN) (until 6:35 PM)
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)  
4:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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') - Dr 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 ---
4:45 PM
Controls, data and automation <-> Operation - Andrea Calia (CERN) Michael Schenk (CERN) (until 6:35 PM)
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 ---
3:20 PM Close-out - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---