8th LHC Operations Evian Workshop

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017
14 Dec 2017
AM
08:00 --- Bus Departure - CERN-EVIAN ---
09:30 --- Welcome Coffee ---
10:30 Introduction (25' + 5') - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)   ()
11:00
Session 1: Availability & System Performance - Laurette Ponce (CERN) David John Walsh (CERN) (until 12:20) ()
11:00 Availability 2017: Setting the scene (25' + 5') - Dr Benjamin Todd (CERN)   ()
11:30 LHC Operation (20' + 5') - Dr Mirko Pojer (CERN)   ()
11:55 Availability 2017: Injectors (20' + 5') - Bettina Mikulec (CERN)   ()
08:30
Session 2b: 2017 Operation & Performance - Kajetan Fuchsberger (CERN) Benoit Salvant (CERN) (until 09:40) ()
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') - Mr Gerard Ferlin (CERN)   ()
09:40
Session 3: Injectors & Injection Process - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) (until 10:00) ()
09:40 Overview of the beams from the injectors (15' + 5') - Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:20
Session 3: Injectors & Injection Process - Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) (until 12:00) ()
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)   ()
08:30
Session 6: Operational Scenario 2018 - Guido Sterbini (CERN) Georges Trad (CERN) (until 10:00) ()
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 ---
10:30
Session 6: Operational Scenario 2018 - Guido Sterbini (CERN) Georges Trad (CERN) (until 11:30) ()
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
Guided Discussion - Georges Trad (CERN) Guido Sterbini (CERN) (until 12:00) ()
PM
12:20 --- Lunch - Restaurant ---
13:45
Session 1: Availability & System Performance - David Nisbet (CERN) Slawosz Uznanski (CERN) (until 15:15) ()
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 ---
15:35
Session 2a: 2017 Operation & Performance - Kajetan Fuchsberger (CERN) Benoit Salvant (CERN) (until 17:25) ()
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
Guided Discussion - Slawosz Uznanski (CERN) David John Walsh (CERN) Benoit Salvant (CERN) Kajetan Fuchsberger (CERN) David Nisbet (CERN) Laurette Ponce (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00 --- Finger food - Hall ---
13:15
Session 4: LHC Emittance Preservation - Roderik Bruce (CERN) Belen Maria Salvachua Ferrando (CERN) (until 14:45) ()
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 ---
15:15
Session 5: Machine Developments - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN) Hannes Bartosik (CERN) (until 16:45) ()
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
Guided Discussion - Theodoros Argyropoulos (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular IFIC (ES)) Kajetan Fuchsberger (CERN) Belen Maria Salvachua Ferrando (CERN) Heiko Damerau (CERN) Matthew Alexander Fraser (CERN) Hannes Bartosik (CERN) Roderik Bruce (CERN) Benoit Salvant (CERN) (until 17:30) ()
18:30 --- Cocktail ---
19:15 Special Talk   ()
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Wrap up - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)   ()
12:30 --- Finger food - Hall ---
13:30 --- Bus Departure - EVIAN-CERN ---