HL-LHC / LIU Joint Workshop

Contribution List

11. Welcome

Steve Myers (CERN)

30/03/2012, 09:00

0. Summary and outcome of the 1st LIU-HL-LHC Brainstorming meeting

Mike Lamont (CERN)

30/03/2012, 09:05

1. Transverse emittance blow-up and beam loss between injection and collision – 20+10 minutes

Verena Kain (CERN)

30/03/2012, 09:25

HL-LHC Talks

o Taking into account experience with beam until end of 2011 o For 25 and 50 ns bunch spacing

2. Update of required beam characteristics at injection energy in LHC – 20+10 minutes

Oliver Bruning (CERN)

30/03/2012, 09:55

HL-LHC Talks

o Taking into account experience with beam until end of 2011 o For 25 and 50 ns bunch spacing o Known “hard” and “soft” limits and resulting area of beam characteristics

3. Micro-batch filling scheme for pacman cancellation – 10+5 minutes

Stephane Fartoukh (CERN)

30/03/2012, 10:25

HL-LHC Talks

4. New ideas (e.g. pile-up levelling versus luminosity levelling schemes: potential gains and losses in performance) – 10+5 minutes

Dr Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

30/03/2012, 10:40

HL-LHC Talks

5. Analysis of performance progress in the injectors in 2011 – 20+10 minutes

Giovanni Rumolo (CERN)

30/03/2012, 11:10

LIU talks

o Double PSB batch in the PS o SPS improvement because of scrubbing? o What was done in MDs o Instrumentation-related issues

6. Update of achievable beam characteristics at injection in LHC – 20+10 minutes

Dr Brennan Goddard (CERN)

30/03/2012, 11:40

LIU talks

o Taking into account experience with beam until end of 2011 o For 25 and 50 ns bunch spacing o Known “hard” and “soft” limits o Suggesting area of equivalent beam characteristics.

7. About beam characteristics and LHC luminosity … – 20+10 minutes

Roland Garoby (CERN)

30/03/2012, 12:10

LIU talks

- Luminosity and beam quality factor - Status - How space charge bottlenecks are addressed - Could we do better? - Path to the specifications of the LIU goals

8. Pros-cons of 25 ns vs 50 ns, animated by J-M. Jimenez and E. Metral.

30/03/2012, 14:00

Questions with one “moderator” / question, and a 1 slide introduction for each project

9. Overlapping LIU accessible beam parameters (areas) with LHC beam parameters regions (bands), animated by S. Gilardoni and G. Arduini.

30/03/2012, 15:00

Questions with one “moderator” / question, and a 1 slide introduction for each project

10. List of questions to be answered by the end of 2012 / required MDs, animated by E. Shaposhnikova and R. Assmann.

30/03/2012, 16:15

Questions with one “moderator” / question, and a 1 slide introduction for each project