Name: Workshop on Experimental Conditions and Beam Induced Detector Backgrounds
Start: 2008-04-03T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-04-04T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Workshop on Experimental Conditions and Beam Induced Detector Backgrounds

from Thursday, 3 April 2008 (09:00) to Friday, 4 April 2008 (18:00)

Monday, 31 March 2008
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Thursday, 3 April 2008
09:00 Experience and recommendations from Tevatron, HERA and RHIC
09:00 - 12:30
Room: AT Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Tevatron: Sources & cures of background - machine and experiments perspective - Rick Tesarek (FNAL)

09:40 Discussion - All

09:55 HERA: Sources & cures of background - machine perspective - Bernhard Holzer (DESY)

10:15 Discussion

10:45 HERA background at the HERA - experiments perspective - Carsten Niebuhr (DESY)

11:05 Discussion

11:15 Background in RHIC - Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

11:35 Discussion

11:45 Expected sources of background in LHC operation - Mike Lamont (CERN)

12:05 Discussion
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: AT Auditorium
14:00 LHC conditions : what can be expected and optimized
14:00 - 18:00
Room: AT Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Estimates of residual gas pressure in the LHC - Adriana Rossi (CERN)

14:20 Discussion

14:30 Simulation of machine backgrounds - Vadim Talanov (CERN)

14:50 Discussion

15:00 Machine-related backgrounds: their origin and loads on ATLAS/CMS - Nikolai Mokhov (FNAL)

15:20 Discussion

15:30 Effects of backgrounds on experiments - Mika Huhtinen (CERN)

16:00 Discussion

16:30 Collimation - Ralph Assmann (CERN)

16:50 Discussion

17:00 Experiments protection - Daniela Macina (CERN)

17:20 Discussion
Friday, 4 April 2008
09:00 What do the experiments require and provide for optimization
09:00 - 12:30
Room: AT Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 ATLAS - Witold Kozanecki (DAPNIA)

09:20 Discussion

09:30 CMS - Jeffrey Spalding (FNAL)

09:50 Discussion

10:20 ALICE - Antonello Di Mauro (CERN) Tapan Nayak (VECC)

10:40 Discussion

10:50 LHCb - Gloria Corti (CERN)

11:10 Discussion

11:20 Forward Detectors - Mario Deile (CERN)

11:40 Discussion
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: AT Auditorium