Name: LHC Machine Protection Review
Start: 2005-04-11T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2005-04-13T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

LHC Machine Protection Review

from Monday, 11 April 2005 (10:30) to Wednesday, 13 April 2005 (18:00)

Monday, 11 April 2005
10:30 Getting to know the LHC: (session only for reviewers)
(session only for reviewers)
10:30 - 12:30
Room: 40/R-B10
Contributions

10:30 Introduction to the LHC accelerator, the layout and its parameters - Roger Bailey (CERN)

11:30 Introduction to magnet powering and protection - Reiner Denz (CERN)
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Novae

13:30 Reviewer Executive Session (M.Harrison)

13:30 - 14:00
Room: 40-R-B10
14:00 Introduction to Protection
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

14:00 Introduction to the review - Lyn Evans (CERN)

14:15 Protection of the LHC - Rudiger Schmidt (CERN)

15:00 The role of the collimation system in protecting the aperture - Ralph Assmann (CERN)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 40
16:00 Dumping the beam
16:00 - 18:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

16:00 Beam Dumping System - design and safety - Jan Uythoven (CERN)

16:45 Beam Dumping system - failure scenarios - Brennan Goddard (CERN)

17:15 Safe beam energy tracking - Etienne Carlier (CERN)

17:45 Transverse damper - Wolfgang Hofle (CERN)
18:30 Reviewers Executive Session

18:30 - 20:00
Room: 40-R-B10
Tuesday, 12 April 2005
09:00 Interlocking
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

09:00 Interlocking strategy - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)

09:30 Architecture, Design, and Realisation of the LHC Beam Interlock System - Benjamin Todd (CERN)

10:15 The LHC Safe Beam Parameters - Bruno Puccio (CERN)
10:45 coffee break
coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
Room: 40
11:10 Events leading to beam losses
11:10 - 12:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

11:10 Failures in magnet and powering systems - Rudiger Schmidt (CERN)

11:40 Objects that can move into the beam - Rossano Giachino (CERN)

12:05 Fast kickers (tune and aperture) - Jan Uythoven (CERN)
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Novae
14:00 Equipment and beam monitoring - connected to the beam interlocks
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

14:00 Beam losses versus BLM locations at the LHC - Stefano Redaelli (CERN)

14:30 Beam loss monitoring requirements and system description - Bernd Dehning (CERN)

15:05 Beam loss monitors, realisation - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: building 40
16:00 Equipment and beam monitoring - connected to the beam interlocks
16:00 - 17:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

16:00 Magnet powering system and beam dump requests - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)

16:20 Machine protection and closed orbit - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)

16:40 BCT for protection - David Belohrad (CERN)
17:30 Machine protection and operation
17:30 - 18:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

17:30 Performance of injection protection systems - Verena Kain (CERN)
18:30 Reviewer Excecutive Session

18:30 - 20:00
Room: 40-R-D10

20:00 Review Dinner
Review Dinner
20:00 - 20:00
Room: building 40

20:30 Review Dinner (on invitation)
Review Dinner (on invitation)
20:30 - 22:30
Room: to be defined
Wednesday, 13 April 2005
09:00 Machine Protection and operation (part II)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

09:00 Ensuring required collimator settings - Oliver Aberle (CERN)

09:30 Machine protection and LHC controls - Mike Lamont (CERN)

10:00 Will the machine protection systems let LHC safely operate? - Roberto Filippini (CERN)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 40

11:00 Interactive session (closed session)

11:00 - 13:00
Room: 40/4-C01

13:00 lunch
lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Novae

14:00 Reviewer Executive Session

14:00 - 17:00
Room: 40-4-C01
17:00 Conclusions (open session)
17:00 - 18:00
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

17:00 Conclusions and recommendations - Mike Harrison (BNL)