Name: LHC beam commissioning workshop - Evian 19-20 January 2010
Start: 2010-01-19T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-01-20T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Hilton and Palais Lumière (EVIAN)

LHC beam commissioning workshop - Evian 19-20 January 2010

from Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, January 20, 2010 (4:00 PM)

Monday, January 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

9:00 AM Welcome Coffee - Palais Lumière

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Opening Remarks

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM Session 1: 2009: review of LHC beam operation and models
10:15 AM - 12:35 PM
Contributions

10:15 AM Review of LHC operation : performance vs expectation, issues, necessary improvements? - Mike Lamont (CERN)

10:45 AM LHC optical model and necessary corrections (aperture model, tune, beta beat, coupling, chromaticity…) - Rogelio Tomas (CERN)

11:15 AM Ppbar experience including beam-beam and intrabeam scattering - Lyn Evans (CERN)

11:45 AM LHC beam behaviour (parameters, beam-beam, lifetime, expectation and observation) - Werner Herr (CERN)

12:05 PM LHC Injection and Transfer lines - Malika Meddahi (CERN)

12:25 PM Discussion
12:35 PM LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 2 : Beam diagnostics
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Orbit system, incl. feedback, stability - Kajetan Fuchsberger

2:20 PM Tune, chromaticity, feed forward / Feed back - Marek Gasior (CERN) Ralph Steinhagen (AB/OP)

2:45 PM Beam loss monitor system - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)

3:15 PM Profile monitors, BSRA, BSRT, Injection matching monitor - Thibaut Lefevre (CERN)

3:35 PM Luminosity optimisation - Simon Mathieu White (Universite de Paris-Sud (Paris XI)-Unknown-Unknown)

3:50 PM General discussion: Feedback from operational experience- What can be improved?
4:05 PM COFFEE break
COFFEE break
4:05 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Session 3: Ramp & Squeeze & Adjust & Stable beam
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Ramp: experience and issues, incl. MP - Walter Venturini Delsolaro (CERN)

4:55 PM Squeeze: strategy and issues, incl. MP - Stefano Redaelli (CERN)

5:15 PM Separation and crossing scheme, minimum beta star - Werner Herr (CERN)

5:35 PM Updated magnetic model for ramp and squeeze - Ezio Todesco (CERN)

5:55 PM Lessons from Physics Runs - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)

6:15 PM General discussion
7:00 PM Drinks - Hilton Hotel
Drinks - Hilton Hotel
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM Diner - Hilton Hotel
Diner - Hilton Hotel
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
9:00 AM Session 4: Machine Protection systems (part not done in Cham10)
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM BIS - BIC - SMP - Benjamin TODD (CERN)

9:15 AM Collimators and beam cleaning: first results and future plans - Chiara Bracco (Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL))

9:35 AM Beam Dump Systems and Abort Gap Cleaning - Jan Uythoven (CERN)

9:50 AM Injection and dump protection - Wolfgang BARTMANN

10:10 AM Overall MP and operation and scaling to 2010 - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)

10:30 AM General discussion
10:45 AM COFFEE break
COFFEE break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Session 5 : Controls and operational aspects: going from commissioning to operational regime
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:15 AM What are the weak points of operation? - Brennan Goddard (CERN)

11:35 AM How to improve operational efficiency ? - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)

11:55 AM Controls issues: CMW subscription, RBAC set-up… - Wojtek Sliwinski (Unknown)

12:15 PM RF - performance & operational issues. - Andrew Butterworth (CERN)

12:35 PM General discussion
12:45 PM LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 6: 2010 operation
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Requirements from the experiments - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)

2:30 PM 2010 beam parameters, machine performance to be reached in 2010 - Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

3:00 PM 2010 commissioning plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)

3:30 PM Wrap-up, list of subjects to follow-up, critical points… (tbc) - Paul Collier (CERN)

3:50 PM Concluding remarks (tbc) - Steve Myers (CERN)