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: No location set

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

from Monday, 14 September 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 16 September 2026 (16:30)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

14 Sept 2026

15 Sept 2026

16 Sept 2026

08:00	--- Registration at Royal Holloway, for Collaboration Board members ---
09:00	Collaboration Board (restricted) (until 11:30)
09:00	--- Registration at Royal Holloway, for Collaboration Meeting participants ---
11:30	--- Lunch break ---

08:30	Plenary session 3 - Tuesday AM (until 11:00)
08:30	Status of Cold Powering - Amalia Ballarino (CERN)
08:50	RHUL contribution to HL-LHC
09:10	Beam Instrumentation for HL era (BGI, Coronagraph, BGC, crab cavity diagnostics …)
09:30	Beam screen production, integration, and preparation for the upcoming laser treatment - Cedric Garion (CERN)
09:50	Status of (de-)installation and commissioning activities in the HL-LHC galleries and LHC tunnel
10:10	LS3 baseline schedule and equipment readiness, incoming activities - Giulia Papotti (CERN)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Tuesday AM - WP2/WP3 (until 12:45)
11:00	Updates on field quality - Georgiana Dima
11:20	Flux jumps and voltage spikes, and their impact on the field - Lucio Fiscarelli (CERN)
11:35	Sorting - Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN) Andrea Fornara (CERN)
11:50	Field quality at injection - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)
12:05	Magnetic field axis - Carlo Petrone (CERN)
12:25	FRAS for Run 4 - Helene Mainaud Durand (CERN)
11:00	Tuesday AM - WP4/AUP/TRIUMF (until 12:40)
11:00	DQW cavity production & testing - Nuria Valverde Alonso (CERN) Katarzyna Turaj (CERN)
11:20	AUP cavity production & recent NCRs - Manuele Narduzzi
11:40	AUP processing & testing - Alex Castilla (Lancaster University (GB))
12:00	AUP HOMs status - Naeem Abdul Huque
12:20	Dressed cavity testing experience at TRIUMF & preparations for TC0 and TCM1 - Zhongyuan Yao (TRIUMF)
11:00	Tuesday AM - WP6A/WP15/WP3/Transport (until 12:40)
11:00	Cold Powering Systems in the LS3 installation planning : constraints & challenges - Laura Funder Giulia Papotti (CERN)
11:20	Cold Powering Systems installation sequence, milestones, QA plan and challenges - Yann Leclercq (CERN)
11:40	Lessons learnt from the IT String on the detailed Cold Powering Systems installation sequence - Florian Pasdeloup (CERN)
12:00	Cold Powering Systems : interfaces and commissioning - Vanessa Gahier (CERN)
12:20	Cold Powering Systems : electrical interfaces and commissioning - Samer Yammine (CERN)

08:30	Wednesday AM - WP2/WP5 (until 10:30)
08:30	High-intensity tests - Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)
08:50	Progress on HL collimator impedance and MDs - Nicolas Mounet (CERN) Chiara Antuono (CERN)
09:10	New optics baseline and IR7 status - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)
09:30	Collimation studies for HL in case we have to disable collimators due to breaking bellows - Andre Donadon Servelle (CERN)
09:50	Shower simulation studies for missing collimators - Nuno Duarte (CERN)
10:10	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)
08:30	Wednesday AM - WP3-WP6A-WP6B-WP16-WP19 (until 10:30)
08:30	String Validation Program and HWC of the HL-LHC Magnet Circuits - Samer Yammine (CERN)
08:50	Commissioning of the Cryogenic System of the IT String - Aleksandra Onufrena (CERN)
09:10	Validation of the HL-LHC Powering Performance in the IT String Converters - Vicente Raul Herrero Gonzalez (CERN)
09:30	FRAS Performance in the various operation Phases of the IT String - Vincent Thomas Barbarroux (CERN)
09:50	Cold Powering Operation of the IT String - Christian Barth (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
10:10	Performance during Powering of the Quench Detection System and Supervision System - Jens Steckert (CERN)
08:30	Wednesday AM - WP4 RF Powering (until 10:30)
08:30	RF power procurement status & first acceptance tests - Amelia Veronica Edwards (CERN)
08:50	HL-LHC LLRF & Controls & Interlocks - Gregoire Hagmann (CERN)
09:10	M7 infrastructure & testing - Katarzyna Turaj (CERN)
09:30	CM testing at TRIUMF & preparations - Zhongyuan Yao (TRIUMF)
09:50	DQW cryomodules at UK RF testing strategy - Edward Jordan (Unknown)
10:10	Discussion
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Wednesday AM - WP2/WP5 (until 11:40)
11:00	Latest studies of heating of TCLM4 mask - Francois-Xavier Nuiry (CERN)
11:20	Status of experimental tests for the transverse stability of the beams - Xavier Buffat (CERN)
11:00	Wednesday AM - WP3 (until 13:00)
11:00	Q2 magnets and cold masses at CERN - Julia Mary Haack
11:20	Cryostating at CERN - Delio Ramos (CERN)
11:40	Overview on WP3 cold powering test - Franco Julio Mangiarotti (CERN)
12:00	Q1/Q3 cold mass, cryostating and test - Sandor Feher (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
12:20	Cryo-assembly installation: from the IT-String to the HL-LHC - Lucie Baudin (CERN)
12:40	Status of BPM production and integration - Gerhard Schneider (CERN)
11:00	Wednesday AM - WP4 Flash talks (until 12:30)
11:00	UK cleanroom QA & improvements - Susan Shirling
11:10	DQW Survey + Alignment improvements CM#2 - Edward Jordan (Unknown)
11:20	Refurbishment of SPS-RFD - Alex Verduyn
11:30	Cryomodule QA/QC at CERN - Myriam Elena Benahmed
11:40	Material testing - Claudia Tatiana Santos Maldonado
11:50	Tuners lessons learned - Kurt Artoos (CERN)
12:00	Inventory status at TRIUMF
12:10	Series RFD HOM analysis - Subashini De Silva (Old Dominion University (US))
11:40	Wednesday AM - WP2/WP5/WP13 (until 12:40)
11:40	BGC as a hollow electron beam diagnostic - Milaan Patel (University of Liverpool)
12:00	Expected performance of the BPM system - Michal Krupa (CERN)
12:20	Emittance measurements for HL-LHC with the BGI - James Storey (CERN)

13:00	Plenary session 1 - Monday PM (until 15:30)
13:00	Welcome
13:05	Welcome
13:10	HL-LHC Project status - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)
13:40	Status of US-AUP contribution - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
14:00	Status of D1, DQHDs and HPRRF - Tatsushi Nakamoto (KEK)
14:15	Status of D2 - Stefania Farinon (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
14:30	Completion of MCBXF production - Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
14:45	Completion of MCBRD magnet production - Qingjin Xu
15:00	Status of WP3 with focus on readiness for installation - Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (CERN)
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Plenary session 2 - Monday PM (until 17:40)
16:00	IT String status, ROE form cooldown and operation
16:20	Status of WP4 - Rama Calaga (CERN)
16:40	Status of DQW cryomodules production
17:00	Status of RFD crab cavity production and qualification
17:20	Status of RFD cryomodules production at TRIUMF - Robert Laxdal
18:00	--- Welcome Drink followed by Collaboration Banquet ---

12:40	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Tuesday PM - MCF-WP3-WP7-WP12-WP16 (until 16:00)
14:00	Benchmarking of Circuit and Quench Protection Simulations in the HL-LHC IT String (with an emphasis on RQX) - Dimitri Pracht (CERN)
14:20	D1 Magnet Prototype from the Test Bench to the IT String - Kento Suzuki (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
14:40	Performance of the RCBX and High Order Correctors in the IT String - Vincenzo Di Capua (CERN)
15:00	Return of Experience of the CLIQ HWC in the IT String - David Carrillo (CERN)
15:20	HL-LHC Energy Extraction System Performance - Bozhidar Ivanov Panev (CERN)
15:40	Feedback of the IT String on the HL-LHC HWC Procedures and Software Tools - Lucia Herrero Alvarez (CERN)
14:00	Tuesday PM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP7/WP13/WP14 (until 16:00)
14:00	HL baseline and validation status - Nicolas Mounet (CERN)
14:20	Update on halo models and simulations of halo losses - Dora Erzsebet Veres
14:40	Studies of collimation hierarchy breakage with non-linearities for HL - Ludovica Bertolozzi (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
15:00	Shower studies for injection and extraction protection devices (TCDS and TCLIA) - Helene Guerin
15:20	Result of damage experiment with radiation aged coils - Delphine Domange (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))
14:00	Tuesday PM - WP4 Cryomodule (until 16:00)
14:00	DQW & RFD cryomodules at CERN - Teddy Capelli (CERN)
14:20	Cryogenics for crab cavities, design to realization - Krzysztof Brodzinski (CERN)
14:40	DQW cryomodules at UK procedures, transport of CM2 - Edward Jordan (Unknown)
15:00	Cryolines, instrumentation & Outgoing testing - Andy Blackett-May (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))
15:20	RFD cryomodules at TRIUMF - Oliver Law (TRIUMF)
15:40	Technical Management experience & lessons learned - Matthew Williams Luke Kristian Bladen (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))
16:00	--- Coffee break ---
16:30	Steering Committee with AUP (WP4) (until 17:30)
16:30	Tuesday PM - MCF-WP3-WP7-WP12-WP16 (until 17:10)
16:30	QDS Integration/Controls in the IT String in Preparation for HL-LHC - Marc-Antoine Galilee (CERN)
16:50	FRAS software status and protection layers - Brad Schofield (CERN)
16:30	Tuesday PM - WP2/WP4/WP5/WP7/WP13/WP14 (until 17:20)
16:30	Update of the availability model for HL-LHC - Lukas Felsberger (CERN)
16:45	Crab cavity failure case validation in the SPS - Christophe Lannoy (CERN)
17:00	BLM HL-LHC layout and beam loss limits - Belen Maria Salvachua Ferrando (CERN)
17:20	Tuesday PM - WP2 (until 18:40)
17:20	E-cloud updates from HI tests - Lotta Mether (CERN)
17:40	Status of flat optics design and D2 coupling correction - Kyriacos Skoufaris (CERN)
18:00	Dynamic Aperture of the baseline and alternative scenarios - Dr Max Topp-Mugglestone (CERN)
18:20	Status of Dynamic Aperture with updated magnet errors - Andrea Fornara (CERN)
17:30	Steering Committee with TRIUMF (WP4) (until 18:30)
19:00	--- Collaboration Board Dinner (restricted) ---

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Steering Committee with INFN or AUP (WP3) (until 15:00)
14:00	Wednesday PM - WP2/WP4 (until 15:40)
14:00	SPS-RFD MDs & outlook - Rama Calaga (CERN)
14:20	Beam-impedance induced heating during the high-intensity tests - Chiara Antuono (CERN)
14:40	Operation / RF Multipoles with CCs in SPS - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN) Guido Sterbini (CERN)
14:50	Longitudinal MDs in LHC 2026 and future outlook - Birk Emil Karlsen-Baeck (CERN)
15:10	Longitudinal impedance, HL-LHC update - Michela Neroni
15:30	Longitudinal Coupled bunch simulations for HL-LHC - Clara Charlotte Becker (Vienna University of Technology (AT))
14:00	Wednesday PM - WP2/WP5/WP13 (until 15:20)
14:00	Halo monitoring - specifications and status - Federico Roncarolo (CERN)
14:20	Crab cavity diagnostics status - Giusy Valeria Passarelli (University of London (GB))
14:40	Modelling of Halo dynamics - Pascal Hermes (CERN)
15:00	E-O pickup studies
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Close-out Session (until 16:30)
16:00	Close out