Introduction and welcome to the review

• Peter Forck (GSI)
• Raymond Veness (CERN)

- Peter: Welcome to GSI (5 min) - Ray: Review of actions from last collaboration meeting, (27/28 June 2017, Cockcroft Institute), and objectives of the workshop (15 min + 10 min)

Cockcroft collaboration

• Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

- Recruitment situation and plans, financial situation, main milestones - Foreseen publications in 2018 (20 min + 10 min)

Status of the Hollow e-lens and BBLR e-beam

• Adriana Rossi (CERN)

- Update on HEL - Residual gas and ion capture - Electron trapping and build-up: Clearing electrodes? - Update on e-lens parameters and interface - Plans for e-lens test stand (20 min + 10 min)

Expected limitations of the performance of the BGC

• Serban Udrea (GSI Darmstadt)
• Peter Forck (GSI)

- Which gas? What have we learned, pros and cons of each gas type, vacuum issues for the gas selection (Split with Marton) - Limits to precision, resolution, integration time (30 min + 10 min)

Experimental programme

• Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute)

- What we learned in 2017 - Experimental goals with the existing (v1) and new (v2) set-ups for 2018 - Associated needs for additional equipment, design, visits etc. (30 min + 10 min)

LHC fluorescence measurement

• Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)

- Status of the set-up - Experimental plans for 2018 - What we hope/fear to learn, and how this feeds-back to the design (20 min + 10 min)

Objectives for the LHC-compatible (v3) instrument

• Gerhard Schneider (CERN)

- Project management: Schedule, ECRs for LHC installation, risk analysis for interface equipment - What do we need to change or improve: input from gas jet, input from vacuum, - Design plans for 2018 (15 min + 10 min)

Gas-curtain generation, gas expansion

• Przemyslaw Smakulski (Wroclaw University of Technology)

- High-pressure expansion: What we have learned? - How can we optimise the performance while minimising the dimensions? - Impact on nozzle to skimmer 1 design? (20 min + 10)

Gas-curtain generation, density and pumping optimisation

• Marton Ady (CERN)

- Compare model to measured pressures/densities of v1 model - Show expected model for v2 system - Optimisation and simplification of the skimmers - Putting both together: Realistic expectations for the final gas jet, absolute signal and signal/noise (20 min + 10 min)

Optical Beam Diagnostics

• Jochen Wieser (GSI)

- Introduction and Status Report for the Year 2017 (20 min + 10 min)

Optical system

• Serban Udrea (GSI Darmstadt)

- What we have learned in 2017, objectives for 2018? - Blackening of chambers? What would be required to set-up an LHC-compatible instrument? (20 min + 10 min)

Nozzle, Skimmer Update and v3 design

• Tom Dodington (CERN)

- Update on Nozzles and skimmers - Mechanical designs for v2 at Cockcroft - Introduction to v3 LHC design (15 min + 5 min)

Discussion

Wrap-up

• Peter Forck (GSI)
• Raymond Veness (CERN)

- Draft meeting minutes - Decisions - Actions

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