Name: 16th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, Royal Holloway (UK), 14-16 September 2026
Start: 2026-09-14T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-09-16T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Royal Holloway

16th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, Royal Holloway (UK), 14-16 September 2026

from Monday, September 14, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, September 16, 2026 (4:30 PM)
Royal Holloway (Windsor Building)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Sep 14, 2026

Sep 15, 2026

Sep 16, 2026

8:00 AM	--- Registration at Royal Holloway, for Collaboration Board members ---
9:00 AM	Collaboration Board (restricted) (until 11:30 AM)
9:00 AM	--- Registration at Royal Holloway, for Collaboration Meeting participants ---
11:30 AM	--- Lunch break ---

8:30 AM	Plenary session 3 - Tuesday AM (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM	Status of Cold Powering - Amalia Ballarino (CERN)
8:50 AM	RHUL contribution to HL-LHC
9:10 AM	Status of Beam Instrumentation - Raymond Veness (CERN)
9:30 AM	Beam screen production, integration, and preparation for the upcoming laser treatment - Cedric Garion (CERN)
9:50 AM	Status of (de-)installation and commissioning activities in the HL-LHC galleries and LHC tunnel
10:10 AM	LS3 baseline schedule and equipment readiness, incoming activities - Giulia Papotti (CERN)
10:30 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM	Tuesday AM - WP2/WP3 (until 12:45 PM)
11:00 AM	Updates on field quality - Georgiana Dima
11:20 AM	Flux jumps and voltage spikes, and their impact on the field - Lucio Fiscarelli (CERN)
11:35 AM	Sorting strategies based on transfer function and field quality of the new superconducting magnets in the HL-LHC - Andrea Fornara (CERN)
11:50 AM	Field quality at injection - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)
12:05 PM	Magnetic field axis - Carlo Petrone (CERN)
12:25 PM	FRAS for Run 4 - Vivien Rude (CERN)
11:00 AM	Tuesday AM - WP4/AUP/TRIUMF (until 12:40 PM)
11:00 AM	DQW cavity production & testing - Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN) Katarzyna Turaj (CERN)
11:20 AM	AUP cavity production & recent NCRs - Manuele Narduzzi
11:40 AM	AUP processing & testing - Alex Castilla (Lancaster University (GB))
12:00 PM	AUP HOMs status - Naeem Abdul Huque
12:20 PM	Dressed cavity testing experience at TRIUMF & preparations for TC0 and TCM1 - Zhongyuan Yao (TRIUMF)
11:00 AM	Tuesday AM - WP6A/WP15/WP3/Transport (until 12:40 PM)
11:00 AM	Cold Powering Systems in the LS3 installation planning : constraints & challenges - Laura Funder Giulia Papotti (CERN)
11:20 AM	Cold Powering Systems installation sequence, milestones, QA plan and challenges - Yann Leclercq (CERN)
11:40 AM	Lessons learnt from the IT String on the detailed Cold Powering Systems installation sequence - Florian Pasdeloup (CERN)
12:00 PM	Cold Powering Systems : interfaces and commissioning - Vanessa Gahier (CERN)
12:20 PM	Cold Powering Systems : electrical interfaces and commissioning - Samer Yammine (CERN)

8:30 AM	Wednesday AM - WP2/WP5 (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM	High-intensity tests - Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)
8:50 AM	Progress on HL collimator impedance and MDs - Julian Sonpar (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))
9:10 AM	New optics baseline and IR7 status - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)
9:30 AM	Sensitivity of beam cleaning to missing collimators due to bellows failure - Andre Donadon Servelle (CERN)
9:50 AM	Shower simulation studies for missing collimators - Nuno Duarte (CERN)
10:10 AM	Update on IR7 optics, following latest MDs with intensity ramp-up and evolution of TCT losses - Bjorn Hans Filip Lindstrom (CERN and Royal Holloway University of London)
8:30 AM	Wednesday AM - WP3-WP6A-WP6B-WP16-WP19 (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM	String Validation Program and HWC of the HL-LHC Magnet Circuits - Samer Yammine (CERN)
8:50 AM	Commissioning of the Cryogenic System of the IT String - Aleksandra Onufrena (CERN)
9:10 AM	Validation of the HL-LHC Powering Performance in the IT String Converters - Vicente Raul Herrero Gonzalez (CERN)
9:30 AM	FRAS Performance in the various operation Phases of the IT String - Vincent Thomas Barbarroux (CERN)
9:50 AM	Cold Powering Operation of the IT String - Christian Barth (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
10:10 AM	Performance during Powering of the Quench Detection System and Supervision System - Jens Steckert (CERN)
8:30 AM	Wednesday AM - WP4 RF Powering (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM	RF power procurement status & first acceptance tests - Amelia Veronica Edwards (CERN)
8:50 AM	HL-LHC LLRF & Controls & Interlocks - Gregoire Hagmann (CERN)
9:10 AM	M7 infrastructure & testing - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN)
9:30 AM	CM testing at TRIUMF & preparations - Zhongyuan Yao (TRIUMF)
9:50 AM	DQW cryomodules at UK RF testing strategy - Edward Jordan (Unknown)
10:10 AM	Discussion
10:30 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM	Wednesday AM - WP2/WP5 (until 11:40 AM)
11:00 AM	Review of the production and quality assessment of collimators and masks for HL-LHC - Emil Kaijanen
11:20 AM	Status of experimental tests for the transverse stability of the beams - Xavier Buffat (CERN)
11:00 AM	Wednesday AM - WP3 (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM	Cold masses at CERN - Herve Prin (CERN)
11:20 AM	Cryostating at CERN - Delio Ramos (CERN)
11:40 AM	Overview of WP3 power tests, with focus on tests at CERN - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)
12:00 PM	Q1/Q3 cold mass, cryostating and test - Sandor Feher (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
12:20 PM	Cryo-assembly installation: from the IT-String to the HL-LHC - Lucie Baudin (CERN)
12:40 PM	Status of BPM production and integration - Gerhard Schneider (CERN)
11:00 AM	Wednesday AM - WP4 Flash talks (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM	UK cleanroom QA & improvements - Susan Shirling
11:10 AM	DQW Survey + Alignment improvements CM#2 - Edward Jordan (Unknown)
11:20 AM	Refurbishment of SPS-RFD - Alex Verduyn
11:30 AM	Cryomodule QA/QC at CERN - Myriam Elena Benahmed
11:40 AM	Material testing - Claudia Tatiana Santos Maldonado
11:50 AM	Inventory status at TRIUMF
12:00 PM	Series RFD HOM analysis - Subashini De Silva (Old Dominion University (US))
12:20 PM	Buffer
11:40 AM	Wednesday AM - WP2/WP5/WP13 (until 12:55 PM)
11:40 AM	Expected performance of the BPM system - Michal Krupa (CERN)
12:05 PM	Crab cavity diagnostics status - Giusy Valeria Passarelli (University of London (GB))
12:30 PM	BGC as a hollow electron beam diagnostic - Milaan Patel (University of Liverpool)

1:00 PM	Plenary session 1 - Monday PM (until 3:30 PM)
1:00 PM	Welcome
1:05 PM	Welcome
1:10 PM	HL-LHC Project status - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)
1:40 PM	Status of US-AUP contribution - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
2:00 PM	Status of D1, DQHDs and HPRRF - Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK)
2:15 PM	Status of D2 - Stefania Farinon (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
2:30 PM	Completion of MCBXF production - Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
2:45 PM	Completion of MCBRD magnet production - Qingjin Xu
3:00 PM	Status of WP3 with focus on readiness for installation - Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)
3:30 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM	Plenary session 2 - Monday PM (until 5:50 PM)
4:00 PM	IT String status, ROE form cooldown and operation
4:20 PM	WP4 status and CERN activities - Teddy Capelli (CERN) Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN)
4:50 PM	Status of UK DQW cryomodules production - Edward Jordan (Unknown) Edward Stephen Jordan (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))
5:10 PM	Status of RFD crab cavity production and qualification
5:30 PM	Status of RFD cryomodules production at TRIUMF - Robert Laxdal
6:00 PM	--- Welcome Reception ---
7:30 PM	--- Collaboration Banquet ---

12:40 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Tuesday PM - MCF-WP3-WP7-WP12-WP16 (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM	Benchmarking of Circuit and Quench Protection Simulations in the HL-LHC IT String (with an emphasis on RQX) - Dimitri Pracht (CERN)
2:20 PM	D1 Magnet Prototype from the Test Bench to the IT String - Kento Suzuki (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
2:40 PM	Performance of the RCBX and High Order Correctors in the IT String - Vincenzo Di Capua (CERN)
3:00 PM	Return of experience of the CLIQ and DQHDS systems in the IT String - David Carrillo (CERN)
3:20 PM	HL-LHC Energy Extraction System Performance - Bozhidar Ivanov Panev (CERN)
3:40 PM	Feedback of the IT String on the HL-LHC HWC Procedures and Software Tools - Lucia Herrero Alvarez (CERN)
2:00 PM	Tuesday PM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP7/WP13/WP14 (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM	HL baseline and validation status - Nicolas Mounet (CERN)
2:20 PM	Updates on HL-LHC beam halo and simulated beam losses - Dora Erzsebet Veres
2:40 PM	Studies of collimation hierarchy breakage with non-linearities for HL - Ludovica Bertolozzi (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
3:00 PM	Shower studies for injection and extraction protection devices (TCDS and TCLIA) - Helene Guerin
3:20 PM	Result of damage experiment with radiation aged coils - Delphine Domange (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))
2:00 PM	Tuesday PM - WP4 Cryomodule (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM	DQW & RFD cryomodules at CERN - Teddy Capelli (CERN)
2:20 PM	Cryogenics for crab cavities, design to realization - Krzysztof Brodzinski (CERN)
2:40 PM	DQW cryomodules at UK procedures, transport of CM2 - Edward Jordan (Unknown)
3:00 PM	Cryolines, instrumentation & Outgoing testing - Andy Blackett-May (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))
3:20 PM	RFD cryomodules at TRIUMF
3:40 PM	Technical Management experience & lessons learned - Matthew Williams (STFC) Luke Kristian Bladen (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))
4:00 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM	Steering Committee with AUP (WP4) (until 5:30 PM)
4:30 PM	Tuesday PM - MCF-WP3-WP7-WP12-WP16 (until 5:10 PM)
4:30 PM	QDS Integration/Controls in the IT String in Preparation for HL-LHC - Marc-Antoine Galilee (CERN)
4:50 PM	FRAS software status and protection layers - Brad Schofield (CERN)
4:30 PM	Tuesday PM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP7/WP13/WP14 (until 5:20 PM)
4:30 PM	Update of the availability model for HL-LHC - Lukas Felsberger (CERN)
4:45 PM	Crab cavity failure case validation in the SPS - Christophe Lannoy (CERN)
5:00 PM	BLM HL-LHC layout and beam loss limits - Belen Maria Salvachua Ferrando (CERN)
5:20 PM	Tuesday PM - WP2 (until 6:40 PM)
5:20 PM	E-cloud updates from HI tests - Lotta Mether (CERN)
5:40 PM	Status of flat optics design and D2 coupling correction - Kyriacos Skoufaris (CERN)
6:00 PM	Dynamic Aperture of the baseline and alternative scenarios - Max Topp-Mugglestone (CERN)
6:20 PM	Status of Dynamic Aperture with updated magnet errors - Andrea Fornara (CERN)
5:30 PM	Steering Committee with TRIUMF (WP4) (until 6:30 PM)
7:00 PM	--- Collaboration Board Dinner (restricted) ---

12:30 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Steering Committee with INFN (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM	Wednesday PM - WP2/WP4 (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM	SPS-RFD MDs & outlook - Rama Calaga (CERN)
2:20 PM	Beam-impedance induced heating during the high-intensity tests - Chiara Antuono (CERN)
2:40 PM	Operation / RF Multipoles with CCs in SPS - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN) Guido Sterbini (CERN)
2:50 PM	Longitudinal MDs in LHC 2026 and future outlook - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (CERN)
3:10 PM	Longitudinal impedance, HL-LHC update - Michela Neroni
3:30 PM	Longitudinal Coupled bunch simulations for HL-LHC - Clara Charlotte Becker (Vienna University of Technology (AT))
2:00 PM	Wednesday PM - WP2/WP5/WP13 (until 3:15 PM)
2:00 PM	Halo monitoring - specifications and status - Federico Roncarolo (CERN)
2:25 PM	Modelling of transverse halo dynamics - Pascal Hermes (CERN)
2:50 PM	Emittance measurements for HL-LHC with the BGI - James Storey (CERN)
3:30 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM	Close-out Session (until 4:30 PM)
4:00 PM	Close out - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)