1st Special RAWG Meeting on FCC Availability

Thursday 4 Dec 2025, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

774/2-058 (CERN)

Jack Heron (CERN)

Reliability and availability are significant challenges for the FCC. As many teams are already starting / planning activities to meet these challenges, we propose a semi-regular series of meetings to bring together relevant people from across the research and design space. This is in collaboration with the well-established Reliability and Availability Working Group (RAWG).

The purpose of these meetings will be:

• To promote discussions and cooperation on reliability / availability topics in the FCC-ee
• To keep up-to-date with progress and challenges faced by teams in other groups
• To pool resources, data, methods and advice for problem-solving in the FCC-ee reliability / availability sector.

16:00 → 16:30 The FCC Availability Challenge and TE-MPE contributions in the pre-TDR phase

Presentation ~20 min
Questions + discussion ~10 min

Speaker: Jack Heron (CERN)

16:30 → 17:00 RF perspective on Reliability and Availability for FCC-ee

Presentation ~20 min
Questions + discussion ~10 min

Speaker: Andy Butterworth (CERN)

17:00 → 17:30 FCC-ee Power Converter Controls Availability Research

Presentation ~20 min
Questions + discussion ~10 min

Speaker: Benjamin Todd (CERN)