LHC Beam Operation workshop - Evian 2011

from Monday, December 12, 2011 (10:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 14, 2011 (1:00 PM)
Royal Hotel

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 12, 2011
Dec 13, 2011
Dec 14, 2011
AM
10:15 AM --- Welcome Coffee ---
10:45 AM Opening remarks and setting the scene - Mike Lamont   (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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11:00 AM
Session 1: Review 2011 (until 12:50 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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11:00 AM Introduction and review of the year including OP issues - Mirko Pojer  
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11:30 AM Premature dumps - analysis- number and cost, areas to target - Markus Albert  
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11:55 AM Availability and statistics - analysis, areas to target + SEUs, improvements in stats and faults collection - Alick Macpherson  
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12:20 PM Turnaround - analysis, Possible improvements, combined R&S, precycles, injection - Walter Venturini Delsolaro  
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8:30 AM
Session 4: Operational performance (until 10:10 AM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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8:30 AM Aperture & optics – measurements and conclusions - Stefano Redaelli  
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8:55 AM Emittance preservation in LHC: Present understanding, possible improvements/gains, required diagnostics - Verena Kain  
9:20 AM Intensity ramp-up: 2011 experience - Limitations, mitigation, risks, strategy, pushing it in 2012, 1380 in 3 weeks? - Markus Zerlauth  
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9:45 AM Transverse feedback: high intensity operation, AGC, IGC, lessons for 2012 - Daniel Valuch  
10:10 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM
Session 5: Beam loss and machine protection (until 12:20 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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10:40 AM MPS response: issues, close shaves, holes, commissioning and validation procedures, rMPP role and response, change management (incl. SW releases) - Markus Zerlauth  
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11:05 AM UFOs: statistics, dependencies, MKI findings, hypotheses, models, FLUKA results, extrapolation to 7 TeV - Tobias Baer  
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11:30 AM Multi-turn losses and cleaning: collimator set-up, loss map methodology and frequency, use of on-line data to validate - Gianluca Valentino  
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11:55 AM 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  
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9:00 AM
Session 8: 2012 (until 10:40 AM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
9:00 AM View from experiments including special physics run - Benedetto Gorini  
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9:25 AM Outlook for 2012 - Mike Lamont  
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9:50 AM Implications of higher energy - summary of benefits, issues, commissioning cost, (SEUs? Cryo, QPS margins? Potential availability issues?) - Reyes Alemany Fernandez  
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10:15 AM First thoughts on MD priorities for 2012 - Frank Zimmermann  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Session 9: Summary of Sessions (until 11:40 AM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
11:00 AM Summary of Session 1 - Jorg Wenninger  
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11:05 AM Summary of Session 2 - Jan Uythoven  
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11:10 AM Summary of Session 3 - Malika Meddahi  
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11:15 AM Summary of Session 4 - Bernhard Holzer  
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11:20 AM Summary of Session 5 - Brennan Goddard  
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11:25 AM Summary of Session 6 - Eva Barbara Holzer  
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11:30 AM Summary of Session 7 - Gianluigi Arduini  
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11:40 AM
Wrap-up (until 12:10 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
PM
12:50 PM --- Buffet Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Session 2 : Availability (until 3:40 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
2:00 PM QPS - analysis of main problems, areas to target, possible improvements - Reiner Denz  
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2:25 PM Cryogenics - analysis, main problems, SEUs, beam related issues - Serge CLAUDET  
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2:50 PM Technical stops: what were the issues in 2011, minimizing impact and improving recovery - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci  
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3:15 PM R2E – experience and outlook for 2012 - Giovanni Spiezia  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break - Room registration starts ---
4:15 PM
Session 3: Injection (until 6:00 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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4:15 PM Transfer lines - stability and optimization - Lene Norderhaug Drosdal  
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4:40 PM Injection losses and protection, de-bunching, availability, sunglasses - Wolfgang Bartmann  
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5:05 PM Beam preparation in injectors & beam characteristics through the injector complex - Karel Cornelis  
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5:35 PM Injection and Dump Systems - Chiara Bracco  
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
12:20 PM --- Buffet lunch ---
2:00 PM
Session 6 : Systems operational performance (until 3:15 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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2:00 PM Orbit and tune feedbacks/diagnostics – user perspective, performance, issues (ADT,QT trips) - Laurette Ponce  
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2:25 PM Beam instrumentation - critical overview, beam size measurements – what happened to bunch by bunch, BPM (briefly) - Mariusz Gracjan Sapinski  
2:50 PM RF - matching, blow-up etc. system performance, intensity limits for 2012, de-bunching - Philippe Baudrenghien  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:45 PM
Session 7: Limitations (until 5:50 PM) (Salon Edelweiss/Hélianthème)
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3:45 PM Impedance effects on beam stability - Nicolas Mounet  
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4:10 PM Beam induced heating - Benoit Salvant  
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4:35 PM E-cloud effects - Giovanni Rumolo  
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5:00 PM e-cloud & vacuum instabilities - Giuseppe Bregliozzi  
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5:25 PM Luminosity lifetime - protons - Giulia Papotti  
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5:50 PM --- Short Break ---
6:05 PM
Talks from the experiments (until 7:45 PM)
6:05 PM TOTEM - Simone Giani (CERN)  
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6:25 PM LHCb - Pierluigi Campana (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
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6:45 PM ALICE - Paolo Giubellino (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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7:05 PM ATLAS - Dr Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)  
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7:25 PM CMS - Guido Emilio Tonelli (CERN)  
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8:00 PM --- Cocktails and Dinner ---