7th Evian Workshop

from Tuesday 13 December 2016 (08:00) to Thursday 15 December 2016 (14:45)
Hotel Ermitage

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Dec 2016
14 Dec 2016
15 Dec 2016
AM
08:00 --- BUS - from CERN to the Hotel Ermitage ---
10:15 --- Welcome Coffee ---
10:45 Setting the scene - Mike Lamont  
11:00
SESSION 1 : OPERATIONS - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci Chiara Bracco (until 12:40)
11:00 Operation of a 6 BCHF collider: do we fit the expectation? - Enrico Bravin  
11:20 Injection - Wolfgang Bartmann  
11:40 Turnaround and precycle: analysis and improvements - Kajetan Fuchsberger  
12:00 Cycle with beam: analysis and improvements - David Nisbet  
12:20 Machine reproducibility and evolution of key parameters - Jorg Wenninger  
08:30
SESSION 4: PERFORMANCE 2 - Kevin Shing Bruce Li Roderik Bruce (until 10:10)
08:30 How well do we know our beams? - Michi Hostettler  
08:50 Can we predict luminosity? - Fanouria Antoniou  
09:10 Long-range and head-on beam-beam: what are the limits? - Xavier Buffat  
09:30 Instabilities and RF heating: are we stable and cool? - Lee Robert Carver  
09:50 Electron cloud in 2016: cloudy or clear? - Lotta Mether  
10:10
SESSION 5: CONTROLS / TOOLS - Grzegorz Kruk Kajetan Fuchsberger (until 10:30)
10:10 Using the LHC Control System – retrospective on 2016 and short term plans - Guy Crockford  
10:30 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
10:50
SESSION 5: CONTROLS / TOOLS - Grzegorz Kruk Kajetan Fuchsberger (until 12:30)
10:50 Evolving expert tools into operational software? - Delphine Jacquet  
11:10 How to improve interactions with the Control System? - Stephane Deghaye  
11:30 Testing and deployment strategies and their impact on accelerator performance - Jean-Christophe Garnier  
11:50 Thinking outside the box - paradigm changes ahead? - Mike Lamont  
08:30
SESSION 8: INCOMING - Rogelio Tomas Garcia Mirko Pojer (until 10:05)
08:30 Experiments - experience and future - Jamie Boyd  
08:50 Beam from injectors - Hannes Bartosik  
09:05 Filling schemes and e-cloud constraints - Giovanni Iadarola  
09:20 Beta* reach for the different scenarios - Roderik Bruce  
09:40 Scenarios for 2017 and 2018 - Yannis Papaphilippou  
10:05 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
10:30
SESSION 8: INCOMING - Rogelio Tomas Garcia (CERN) Mirko Pojer (CERN) (until 11:30)
10:30 EYETS recovery - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci  
10:50 Run 3 and HL-LHC - Riccardo De Maria  
11:10 Machine development - Jan Uythoven  
11:30 Conclusion - Mike Lamont  
11:45 --- LUNCH ---
PM
12:40 --- LUNCH ---
14:00 SESSION 2 : AVAILABLITY - Laurette Ponce Benjamin Todd (until 15:40)
14:00 Overview: LHC availability and outlook - Andrea Apollonio  
14:20 Technical Services: Unavailability Root Causes, Strategy and Limitations - Jesper Nielsen  
14:40 Injectors: Unavailability By Machine, Root Causes, Strategy and Limitations - Bettina Mikulec  
15:00 Cryogenics: Unavailability Root Causes, Strategy and Limitations - Krzysztof Brodzinski  
15:20 Recurring Sources of Premature Dumps - Ivan Romera Ramirez Markus Zerlauth (CERN)  
15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:10
SESSION 3: PERFORMANCE 1 - Alessio Mereghetti Giovanni Iadarola (until 17:50)
16:10 Optics control in 2016 - Tobias Hakan Bjorn Persson  
16:30 Non-linear corrections - Ewen Hamish Maclean  
16:50 Experience with the ATS optics - Stephane Fartoukh Rogelio Tomas Garcia (CERN)  
17:10 Collimation: experience and performance - Daniele Mirarchi  
17:30 Analysis of beam losses - Stefano Redaelli  
19:30 --- DINNER ---
12:30 --- LUNCH ---
13:30
SESSION 6: SYSTEMS - Reyes Alemany Fernandez Wolfgang Bartmann (until 15:30)
13:30 Failure scenarios at beam transfer - Chiara Bracco  
13:50 MKI - Mike Barnes  
14:10 ADT, Obs box - Daniel Valuch  
14:30 BI - Georges Trad  
14:50 RF - Helga Timko  
15:10 R2E - Salvatore Danzeca  
15:30 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
16:00
SESSION 7: SYSTEMS / MP - Andrea Apollonio Daniel Valuch (until 17:40)
16:00 MPS overview plus interlocks - Jan Uythoven Daniel Wollmann  
16:20 BLM thresholds - Anton Lechner  
16:40 LBDS - Etienne Carlier (CERN)  
17:00 QPS - Jens Steckert (CERN)  
17:20 Collimation - Alessio Mereghetti  
19:00 --- Cocktail ---
19:30 --- DINNER ---
12:45 --- Bus - From the Hotel Ermitage to CERN ---