Name: LHC Lumi Days 2012
Start: 2012-02-29T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-03-01T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

LHC Lumi Days 2012

from Wednesday, February 29, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, March 1, 2012 (6:00 PM)

Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and introduction

9:05 AM Physics potential of precision measurements of the LHC luminosity - Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

9:30 AM ATLAS - Massimiliano Bellomo (CERN)

9:50 AM ALFA - Karlheinz Hiller (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

10:05 AM CMS - Hwi Dong Yoo (Purdue University (US))

10:55 AM LHCb - Victor Coco (NIKHEF (NL))

11:20 AM TOTEM - Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)

11:45 AM A proposal for the absolute lum-measurement at 1% - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

1:45 PM Overview and relative bunch population measurements - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)

2:25 PM Using the BPTX for relative bunch population measurements - Gabriel Anders (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

2:40 PM Relative bunch population and ghost charge measurements from LHCb beam-gas rates - Jaap Panman (CERN)

3:05 PM Ghost and satellites measured with the LHC LDM - Adam Jeff

3:55 PM Ghost and satellites measured with ALICE - Martino Gagliardi (Universita e INFN (IT))

4:20 PM Results of the LHC DCCT Calibration Studies - Colin Barschel (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

4:55 PM LHCb luminosity calibration results - Vladislav Balagura (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))

5:30 PM ALICE luminosity calibration results - Ken Oyama (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Martino Gagliardi (Universita e INFN (IT))
Thursday, March 1, 2012
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM CMS luminosity calibration results - Jeroen Hegeman (Princeton University (US))

9:35 AM ATLAS luminosity calibration results - Mark James Tibbetts (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
10:15 AM Coffee/tea break
Coffee/tea break
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:35 AM
10:35 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

10:35 AM Beam Instrumentation of Relevance for Luminosity Determination - Status and Prospects - Jean-Jacques Gras (CERN)

11:00 AM BRAN: Modeling and experimental results at ATLAS and CMS - Alessandro Ratti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:15 AM Operational aspects - Alick Macpherson (CERN)

11:40 AM Energy Calibration - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)
12:05 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:05 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM
1:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

1:40 PM Beam-beam and dynamic beta - Werner Herr (CERN)

2:05 PM Beta measurements - Glenn Vanbavinckhove (NIKHEF (NL))

2:30 PM Systematic uncertainties - Sophie Cavalier (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

2:55 PM Closest approach of roman pots to the beam - Stefano Redaelli (CERN)

3:20 PM High-beta optics plans - Helmut Burkhardt (CERN)
3:45 PM Coffee/tea break
Coffee/tea break
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
4:10 PM
4:10 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

4:10 PM Summary of impressions/wishes/ideas from the experiments / Discussion - Witold Kozanecki (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

4:55 PM Short summary and comments on the machine session - Mike Lamont (CERN)