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, 29 February 2012 (09:00) to Thursday, 1 March 2012 (18:00)

Monday, 27 February 2012
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and introduction

09:05 Physics potential of precision measurements of the LHC luminosity - Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

09:30 ATLAS - Massimiliano Bellomo (CERN)

09:50 ALFA - Karlheinz Hiller (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

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

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

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

11:45 A proposal for the absolute lum-measurement at 1% - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))
13:45
13:45 - 18:05
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

13:45 Overview and relative bunch population measurements - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)

14:25 Using the BPTX for relative bunch population measurements - Gabriel Anders (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

14:40 Relative bunch population and ghost charge measurements from LHCb beam-gas rates - Jaap Panman (CERN)

15:05 Ghost and satellites measured with the LHC LDM - Adam Jeff

15:55 Ghost and satellites measured with ALICE - Martino Gagliardi (Universita e INFN (IT))

16:20 Results of the LHC DCCT Calibration Studies - Colin Barschel (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

16:55 LHCb luminosity calibration results - Vladislav Balagura (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))

17:30 ALICE luminosity calibration results - Ken Oyama (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Martino Gagliardi (Universita e INFN (IT))
Thursday, 1 March 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 CMS luminosity calibration results - Jeroen Hegeman (Princeton University (US))

09:35 ATLAS luminosity calibration results - Mark James Tibbetts (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
10:15 Coffee/tea break
Coffee/tea break
10:15 - 10:35
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:35
10:35 - 12:05
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

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

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

11:15 Operational aspects - Alick Macpherson (CERN)

11:40 Energy Calibration - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)
12:05 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:05 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 15:40
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

13:40 Beam-beam and dynamic beta - Werner Herr (CERN)

14:05 Beta measurements - Glenn Vanbavinckhove (NIKHEF (NL))

14:30 Systematic uncertainties - Sophie Cavalier (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

14:55 Closest approach of roman pots to the beam - Stefano Redaelli (CERN)

15:20 High-beta optics plans - Helmut Burkhardt (CERN)
15:45 Coffee/tea break
Coffee/tea break
15:45 - 16:10
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
16:10
16:10 - 17:40
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

16:10 Summary of impressions/wishes/ideas from the experiments / Discussion - Witold Kozanecki (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

16:55 Short summary and comments on the machine session - Mike Lamont (CERN)