MD1 Preparation

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:30 → 16:10 Europe/Zurich

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Georges Trad (CERN), Giovanni Iadarola (CERN), Jan Uythoven (CERN)

13:30 → 13:40 Introduction and upcoming timeline

Speakers: Georges Trad (CERN), Giovanni Iadarola (CERN), Jan Uythoven (CERN)

13:40 → 13:50 RF studies

MD15423 - RF capture and start of ramp with HL-LHC beams
MD15425 - Improved cleaning of de-bunched beam at LHC injection

Speaker: Helga Timko (CERN)

13:50 → 14:00 Beam instrumentation studies

MD 14883 - BSRH development
MD 15103 - Study of BGC-induced losses

Speaker: Daniele Butti

14:00 → 14:10 OMC studies

MD15464 - Refining optics corrections at top energy
MD15463 - Long-range beam-beam compensation with flat-optics

Speaker: Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)

14:10 → 14:20 Collimation studies

MD15146 - Rematched IR7 optics for improved cleaning and impedance -- high intensity part
MD15209 - IR3 operational losses limit
MD14903 - Reducing uncertainty on B2V transverse halo population

Speakers: Bjorn Hans Filip Lindstrom (University of London (GB)), Milica Rakic (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

14:20 → 14:30 Halo and tail population studies

MD14963 - Halo cleaning with stable islands
MD15363 - Emittance growth, tail population and losses with HL INDIVs

Speakers: Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN), Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

14:30 → 14:40 TWOCRYST

MD14923 - TWOCRYST crystal characterization
MD14924 - TWOCRYST double channeling

Speaker: Pascal Hermes (CERN)

14:40 → 14:50 Stability and noise studies

MD15443 - Operation with low brightness witness bunches
MD15383 - Losses when bringing the beams into collision

Speaker: Xavier Buffat (CERN)

14:50 → 15:00 OP studies

MD15003 - Combined Ramp/Squeeze/Rotate for 2026 and HL-LHC

Speaker: Michi Hostettler (CERN)

15:00 → 15:10 O & Ne studies

MD15043 - Crystal collimation performance with Oxygen Beam
MD15044 - Crystal collimation performance with Neon Beam

Speakers: Marta Katarzyna Zielinska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)), Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)

15:10 → 15:20 ABT studies

MD15205 - TI2/TI8 auto steering

Speaker: Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)