Workshop on Experimental Conditions and Beam Induced Detector Backgrounds

from Thursday 3 April 2008 (09:00) to Friday 4 April 2008 (18:00)
CERN (AT Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Apr 2008
4 Apr 2008
AM
09:00
Experience and recommendations from Tevatron, HERA and RHIC (until 12:30)
09:00 Welcome  
09:10 Tevatron: Sources & cures of background - machine and experiments perspective - Rick Tesarek (FNAL)  
proceedings
Slides
09:40 Discussion - All  
09:55 HERA: Sources & cures of background - machine perspective - Bernhard Holzer (DESY)  
proceedings
Slides
10:15 Discussion  
10:25 --- Coffee ---
10:45 HERA background at the HERA - experiments perspective - Carsten Niebuhr (DESY)  
proceedings
Slides
11:05 Discussion  
11:15 Background in RHIC - Dr Wolfram Fischer (BNL)  
Slides
11:35 Discussion  
11:45 Expected sources of background in LHC operation - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
Slides
12:05 Discussion  
09:00
What do the experiments require and provide for optimization (until 12:30)
proceedings
Question to be addressed by the speakers
09:00 ATLAS - Witold Kozanecki (DAPNIA)  
Slides
09:20 Discussion  
09:30 CMS - Jeffrey Spalding (FNAL)  
Paper
Slides
09:50 Discussion  
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:20 ALICE - Tapan Nayak (VECC) Antonello Di Mauro (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
10:40 Discussion  
10:50 LHCb - Gloria Corti (CERN)  
Slides
11:10 Discussion  
11:20 Forward Detectors - Mario Deile (CERN)  
Slides
11:40 Discussion  
PM
12:30 --- lunch ---
14:00
LHC conditions : what can be expected and optimized (until 18:00)
14:00 Estimates of residual gas pressure in the LHC - Adriana Rossi (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
14:20 Discussion  
14:30 Simulation of machine backgrounds - Vadim Talanov (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
14:50 Discussion  
15:00 Machine-related backgrounds: their origin and loads on ATLAS/CMS - Nikolai Mokhov (FNAL)  
Paper
Slides
15:20 Discussion  
15:30 Effects of backgrounds on experiments - Mika Huhtinen (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
16:00 Discussion  
16:10 --- Coffee ---
16:30 Collimation - Ralph Assmann (CERN)  
Slides
16:50 Discussion  
17:00 Experiments protection - Daniela Macina (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
17:20 Discussion  
12:30 --- lunch ---