BLMs - Indispensable Tools for Accelerator Operation and Optimization

• Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

Beamloss detector development at the ESRF

• Friederike Ewald (ESRF)

Fibre BLM studies in the Australian synchrotron

• Maria Kastriotou (University of Liverpool (GB))

Diamond Beam Loss Monitors

• Marcin Ryszard Bartosik (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
• Erich Griesmayer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

In vacuum Diamond Sensor Scanners for Beam Halo Measurements at ATF2

• Shan Liu (DESY)

Collaborative work and funding opportunities

• Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

Beam loss monitoring and experimental application at SPEAR3

• Jeff Corbett (SLAC)
• Kai Tian (SLAC)

Simulation of the European XFEL collimation and undulator section using GEANT4/BDSIM

• Shan Liu (DESY)

BLM in the context of machine protection

• Eva Barbara Holzer (CERN)

Any particle accelerator with damage potential in its beams or its machine components requires a potent machine protection system. High power particle beams, or beams with a high power density, can directly damage accelerator structures, whilst beam induced heating of superconducting structures can trigger a phase transition to the normal conducting state (quench). A good beam loss monitoring (BLM) system is therefore one of the key elements for machine protection. Such a system can either directly trigger a fast beam abort or inhibit subsequent beam pulses, depending on criticality and machine type. This talk discusses the role of a BLM system in machine protection, including aspects related to beam transfer and collimation with the real life experience of LHC BLM operation serving as illustrative examples. Dependability and design criteria are also reviewed.

A New BLM Concept Based on Fast Neutron Detection and Very Low Photon Sensitivity

• Jaques Marroncle (CEA)

The New Beam Loss Monitoring System for CERN's LHC Injector Complex

• Christos Zamantzas (CERN)

Use of a diamond BLM system in the LHC ring

• Chen Xu (CERN)

Latest irradiation test results for diamond & silicon loss detectors

• Marcin Ryszard Bartosik (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

The CMS Beam Condition Monitoring Leakage system at the LHC

• Florian Robert Kassel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Summary and Conclusion

• Ricardo Torres (University of Liverpool)