Name: 8th LHC Operations Evian Workshop
Start: 2017-12-12T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-12-14T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Hotel Ermitage

8th LHC Operations Evian Workshop

from Tuesday 12 December 2017 (08:00) to Thursday 14 December 2017 (15:00)

Monday 11 December 2017
Tuesday 12 December 2017

08:00 Bus Departure - CERN-EVIAN
Bus Departure - CERN-EVIAN
08:00 - 09:30

09:30 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:30
10:30 Introduction (25' + 5') - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
Introduction (25' + 5')
- Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:20
Contributions

11:00 Availability 2017: Setting the scene (25' + 5') - Benjamin Todd (CERN)

11:30 LHC Operation (20' + 5') - Mirko Pojer (CERN)

11:55 Availability 2017: Injectors (20' + 5') - Bettina Mikulec (CERN)
12:20 Lunch - Restaurant
Lunch - Restaurant
12:20 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 15:15
Contributions

13:45 Systems Performance: Circuits (20' + 5') - Ivan Romera Ramirez (CERN)

14:10 Systems Performance: Beam Instrumentation (15' + 5') - Volker Schramm (Universitaet Stuttgart (DE))

14:30 Systems Performance: Beam Dump Block (15' + 5') - Marco Calviani (CERN)

14:50 Systems Performance: RF (20' + 5') - Helga Timko (CERN)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:35
15:35
15:35 - 17:25
Contributions

15:35 Feedback from the Experiments on the 2017 run (20' + 5') - Jamie Boyd (CERN)

16:00 LHC Operation: Experience and new tools (20' + 5') - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)

16:25 New optics correction approaches in 2017 (15' + 5') - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)

16:45 Beam Losses, lifetime & collimators hierarchy (15' + 5') - Alessio Mereghetti (CERN)

17:05 Incoherent beam-beam effects and lifetime optimisation (15' + 5') - Dario Pellegrini (CERN)
17:25 Day 1 (35')
Day 1 (35')
17:25 - 18:00

20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 13 December 2017
08:30
08:30 - 09:40
Contributions

08:30 16L2: Operation, observations and physics aspects (20' + 5') - Lotta Mether (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

08:55 Our understanding of the Instabilities and mitigation tools/strategy (20' + 5') - Xavier Buffat (CERN)

09:20 Cryogenics experience with high luminosity running & feedforward controls (15' + 5') - Gerard Ferlin (CERN)
09:40
09:40 - 10:00
Contributions

09:40 Overview of the beams from the injectors (15' + 5') - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:20
10:20
10:20 - 12:00
Contributions

10:20 Emittance preservation in the injectors (15' + 5') - Frank Tecker (CERN)

10:40 Time spent at injection (15' + 5') - Georges-Henry Hemelsoet (CERN)

11:00 Hardware limitations at injection (15' + 5') - Vasileios Vlachodimitropoulos (CERN)

11:20 SPS and LHC batch spacing optimisation (15' + 5') - Francesco Maria Velotti (CERN)

11:40 AGK and Abort Gap Protection (15' + 5') - Christoph Wiesner (CERN)
12:00 Finger food - Hall
Finger food - Hall
12:00 - 13:15
13:15
13:15 - 14:45
Contributions

13:15 Instrumentation performance and limitations (15 + 5') - Georges Trad (CERN)

13:35 Luminosity Measurements and systematics (15' + 5') - Jamie Boyd (CERN)

13:55 Emittance observations (20' + 5') - Michi Hostettler (Universitaet Bern (CH))

14:20 Emittance intensity & Lumi modeling and evolution (20' + 5') - Stefania Papadopoulou (CERN/ University of Crete (GR))
14:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:45
Contributions

15:15 From MD into operational use (20' + 5') - Jan Uythoven (CERN)

15:40 MDs on the menu before LS2 (20' + 5') - Rogelio Tomas Garcia (CERN)

16:05 A users view on exploiting the control system in MDs (15' + 5') - Giovanni Iadarola (CERN)

16:25 Can we make the preparation of MDs more efficient? (15' + 5') - Belen Maria Salvachua Ferrando (CERN)
16:45 Day 2 (45')
Day 2 (45')
16:45 - 17:30

18:30 Cocktail
Cocktail
18:30 - 19:00

19:15 Special Talk
Special Talk
19:15 - 20:00

20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Thursday 14 December 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Experiments input for the 2018 run (15' + 5') - Christoph Schwick (CERN)

08:50 Recovery & re-qualification (20' + 5') - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)

09:15 Heavy Ions in 2018 (20' + 5') - Michaela Schaumann (CERN)

09:40 Instrumentation: What to expect next year (15' + 5') - Tom Levens (CERN)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 11:30
Contributions

10:30 Beam dynamics and levelling scenarios (15' + 5') - Yannis Papaphilippou (CERN)

10:50 Machine configuration and parameters (15'' + 5') - Matteo Solfaroli Camillocci (CERN)

11:10 Operational tools from 2017 to 2018 (15' + 5') - Andrea Calia (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))
11:30 Day 3 (30')
Day 3 (30')
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 Wrap up - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
Wrap up
- Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
12:00 - 12:30
12:30 Finger food - Hall
Finger food - Hall
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Bus Departure - EVIAN-CERN
Bus Departure - EVIAN-CERN
13:30 - 15:00

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