Name: LHC Beam Operation workshop - Evian 2011
Start: 2011-12-12T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-12-14T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Royal Hotel

LHC Beam Operation workshop - Evian 2011

from Monday 12 December 2011 (10:00) to Wednesday 14 December 2011 (13:00)

Monday 12 December 2011

10:15 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
10:15 - 10:45
Room: 6th floor
10:45 Opening remarks and setting the scene - Mike Lamont
Opening remarks and setting the scene
- Mike Lamont
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
11:00
11:00 - 12:50
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

11:00 Introduction and review of the year including OP issues - Mirko Pojer

11:30 Premature dumps - analysis- number and cost, areas to target - Markus Albert

11:55 Availability and statistics - analysis, areas to target + SEUs, improvements in stats and faults collection - Alick Macpherson

12:20 Turnaround - analysis, Possible improvements, combined R&S, precycles, injection - Walter Venturini Delsolaro
12:50 Buffet Lunch
Buffet Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

14:00 QPS - analysis of main problems, areas to target, possible improvements - Reiner Denz

14:25 Cryogenics - analysis, main problems, SEUs, beam related issues - Serge CLAUDET

14:50 Technical stops: what were the issues in 2011, minimizing impact and improving recovery - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci

15:15 R2E – experience and outlook for 2012 - Giovanni Spiezia
15:40 Coffee Break - Room registration starts
Coffee Break - Room registration starts
15:40 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 18:00
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

16:15 Transfer lines - stability and optimization - Lene Norderhaug Drosdal

16:40 Injection losses and protection, de-bunching, availability, sunglasses - Wolfgang Bartmann

17:05 Beam preparation in injectors & beam characteristics through the injector complex - Karel Cornelis

17:35 Injection and Dump Systems - Chiara Bracco
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:00
Room: Restaurant La Veranda
Tuesday 13 December 2011
08:30
08:30 - 10:10
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

08:30 Aperture & optics – measurements and conclusions - Stefano Redaelli

08:55 Emittance preservation in LHC: Present understanding, possible improvements/gains, required diagnostics - Verena Kain

09:20 Intensity ramp-up: 2011 experience - Limitations, mitigation, risks, strategy, pushing it in 2012, 1380 in 3 weeks? - Markus Zerlauth

09:45 Transverse feedback: high intensity operation, AGC, IGC, lessons for 2012 - Daniel Valuch
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 12:20
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

10:40 MPS response: issues, close shaves, holes, commissioning and validation procedures, rMPP role and response, change management (incl. SW releases) - Markus Zerlauth

11:05 UFOs: statistics, dependencies, MKI findings, hypotheses, models, FLUKA results, extrapolation to 7 TeV - Tobias Baer

11:30 Multi-turn losses and cleaning: collimator set-up, loss map methodology and frequency, use of on-line data to validate - Gianluca Valentino

11:55 Beta* reach: in depth analysis of 2011 – orbit, tolerances, aperture, feed-in to 2012, correction below 1 m, risk from asynch dump, hw limitations - Roderik Bruce
12:20 Buffet lunch
Buffet lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

14:00 Orbit and tune feedbacks/diagnostics – user perspective, performance, issues (ADT,QT trips) - Laurette Ponce

14:25 Beam instrumentation - critical overview, beam size measurements – what happened to bunch by bunch, BPM (briefly) - Mariusz Gracjan Sapinski

14:50 RF - matching, blow-up etc. system performance, intensity limits for 2012, de-bunching - Philippe Baudrenghien
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45
15:45 - 17:50
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

15:45 Impedance effects on beam stability - Nicolas Mounet

16:10 Beam induced heating - Benoit Salvant

16:35 E-cloud effects - Giovanni Rumolo

17:00 e-cloud & vacuum instabilities - Giuseppe Bregliozzi

17:25 Luminosity lifetime - protons - Giulia Papotti
17:50 Short Break
Short Break
17:50 - 18:05
18:05
18:05 - 19:45
Contributions

18:05 TOTEM - Simone Giani (CERN)

18:25 LHCb - Pierluigi Campana (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

18:45 ALICE - Paolo Giubellino (Universita e INFN (IT))

19:05 ATLAS - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)

19:25 CMS - Guido Emilio Tonelli (CERN)
20:00 Cocktails and Dinner
Cocktails and Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant La Véranda
Wednesday 14 December 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

09:00 View from experiments including special physics run - Benedetto Gorini

09:25 Outlook for 2012 - Mike Lamont

09:50 Implications of higher energy - summary of benefits, issues, commissioning cost, (SEUs? Cryo, QPS margins? Potential availability issues?) - Reyes Alemany Fernandez

10:15 First thoughts on MD priorities for 2012 - Frank Zimmermann
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème
Contributions

11:00 Summary of Session 1 - Jorg Wenninger

11:05 Summary of Session 2 - Jan Uythoven

11:10 Summary of Session 3 - Malika Meddahi

11:15 Summary of Session 4 - Bernhard Holzer

11:20 Summary of Session 5 - Brennan Goddard

11:25 Summary of Session 6 - Eva Barbara Holzer

11:30 Summary of Session 7 - Gianluigi Arduini
11:40

11:40 - 12:10
Room: Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème

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