BI/TB on AD CCC (follow-up), future use of CALIFES and VFC status

Thursday 1 Sept 2016, 09:30 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

866/2-D05 (CERN)

Actions:

AD CCC:

1. Offset jumps remain at injection (Miguel)
2. Issues with calibration generators (Miguel)
3. Operational integration (Diogo)

LHC Status:

1. BSRT software and electronics (digital cameras) upgrade to be decided (Enrico/Diogo/L. Jensen)
2. Diamond BLM integration with OP-LHC (Stephane/Enrico)
3. BPM capture data sometimes missing (diagnostics to be improved) (L. Jensen/Guillaume/Manfred/BE-CO)
4. "Dancing BPMs" (Manfred)
5. MD blocks #4 and #5 to be planned LBOC meeting (Enrico)

VFC update:

1. Preparing for tendering process (expected mid-Sept 2016) (Thibaut/Andrea)
2. 50 VFCs ordered from Norcott - see last BI-TB for who gets them (expected early Oct)
3. DDR3 access issue remaining - need help from Altera (Hermann/Thibaut/Rhodri/Andrea/Christos)

09:30 → 10:00 AD CCC follow-up

Speaker: Miguel Filipe Abreu Fernandes (University of Liverpool (GB))

20160901_BI-TB_CCC_update.pdf

20160901_BI-TB_CCC_update.pptx

10:00 → 10:15 Quick overview for LHC performance

Speaker: Enrico Bravin (CERN)

LHC status BITB 01092016.pdf

10:20 → 10:40 Tea / coffee offered by the TB

10:40 → 11:10 On the possible use of CALIFES

An outlook for what the califes facility could be used for in terms of beam instrumentation starting 2017

Speaker: Thibaut Lefevre (CERN)

califes_BITB_August2016.pdf

califes_BITB_August2016.pptx

11:10 → 11:30 VFC status and plans

Speakers: Andrea Boccardi (CERN), Thibaut Lefevre (CERN)