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, December 12, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, December 14, 2017 (3:00 PM)

Monday, December 11, 2017
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

8:00 AM Bus Departure - CERN-EVIAN
Bus Departure - CERN-EVIAN
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Introduction (25' + 5') - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
Introduction (25' + 5')
- Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session 1: Availability & System Performance
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

11:55 AM Availability 2017: Injectors (20' + 5') - Bettina Mikulec (CERN)
12:20 PM Lunch - Restaurant
Lunch - Restaurant
12:20 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Session 1: Availability & System Performance
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Systems Performance: Circuits (20' + 5') - Ivan Romera Ramirez (CERN)

2:10 PM Systems Performance: Beam Instrumentation (15' + 5') - Volker Schramm (Universitaet Stuttgart (DE))

2:30 PM Systems Performance: Beam Dump Block (15' + 5') - Marco Calviani (CERN)

2:50 PM Systems Performance: RF (20' + 5') - Helga Timko (CERN)
3:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
3:35 PM Session 2a: 2017 Operation & Performance
3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Contributions

3:35 PM Feedback from the Experiments on the 2017 run (20' + 5') - Jamie Boyd (CERN)

4:00 PM LHC Operation: Experience and new tools (20' + 5') - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)

4:25 PM New optics correction approaches in 2017 (15' + 5') - Ewen Hamish Maclean (CERN)

4:45 PM Beam Losses, lifetime & collimators hierarchy (15' + 5') - Alessio Mereghetti (CERN)

5:05 PM Incoherent beam-beam effects and lifetime optimisation (15' + 5') - Dario Pellegrini (CERN)
5:25 PM Guided Discussion: Day 1 (35')
Day 1 (35')
5:25 PM - 6:00 PM

8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
8:30 AM Session 2b: 2017 Operation & Performance
8:30 AM - 9:40 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM 16L2: Operation, observations and physics aspects (20' + 5') - Lotta Mether (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

8:55 AM Our understanding of the Instabilities and mitigation tools/strategy (20' + 5') - Xavier Buffat (CERN)

9:20 AM Cryogenics experience with high luminosity running & feedforward controls (15' + 5') - Gerard Ferlin (CERN)
9:40 AM Session 3: Injectors & Injection Process
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:40 AM Overview of the beams from the injectors (15' + 5') - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM Session 3: Injectors & Injection Process
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM AGK and Abort Gap Protection (15' + 5') - Christoph Wiesner (CERN)
12:00 PM Finger food - Hall
Finger food - Hall
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM Session 4: LHC Emittance Preservation
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:15 PM Instrumentation performance and limitations (15 + 5') - Georges Trad (CERN)

1:35 PM Luminosity Measurements and systematics (15' + 5') - Jamie Boyd (CERN)

1:55 PM Emittance observations (20' + 5') - Michi Hostettler (Universitaet Bern (CH))

2:20 PM Emittance intensity & Lumi modeling and evolution (20' + 5') - Stefania Papadopoulou (CERN/ University of Crete (GR))
2:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Session 5: Machine Developments
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM From MD into operational use (20' + 5') - Jan Uythoven (CERN)

3:40 PM MDs on the menu before LS2 (20' + 5') - Rogelio Tomas Garcia (CERN)

4:05 PM A users view on exploiting the control system in MDs (15' + 5') - Giovanni Iadarola (CERN)

4:25 PM Can we make the preparation of MDs more efficient? (15' + 5') - Belen Maria Salvachua Ferrando (CERN)
4:45 PM Guided Discussion: Day 2 (45')
Day 2 (45')
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM

6:30 PM Cocktail
Cocktail
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

7:15 PM Special Talk
Special Talk
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, December 14, 2017
8:30 AM Session 6: Operational Scenario 2018
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Experiments input for the 2018 run (15' + 5') - Christoph Schwick (CERN)

8:50 AM Recovery & re-qualification (20' + 5') - Markus Zerlauth (CERN)

9:15 AM Heavy Ions in 2018 (20' + 5') - Michaela Schaumann (CERN)

9:40 AM Instrumentation: What to expect next year (15' + 5') - Tom Levens (CERN)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Session 6: Operational Scenario 2018
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

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

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

11:10 AM Operational tools from 2017 to 2018 (15' + 5') - Andrea Calia (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))
11:30 AM Guided Discussion: Day 3 (30')
Day 3 (30')
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM Wrap up - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
Wrap up
- Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM Finger food - Hall
Finger food - Hall
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Bus Departure - EVIAN-CERN
Bus Departure - EVIAN-CERN
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM