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 19 January 2010 (09:00) to Wednesday 20 January 2010 (16:00)

Monday 18 January 2010
Tuesday 19 January 2010

09:00

09:00 - 10:00

10:00

10:00 - 10:15
10:15
10:15 - 12:35
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:25 Discussion
12:35 LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
12:35 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:05
Contributions

14:00 Orbit system, incl. feedback, stability - Kajetan Fuchsberger

14:20 Tune, chromaticity, feed forward / Feed back - Marek Gasior (CERN) Ralph Steinhagen (AB/OP)

14:45 Beam loss monitor system - Christos Zamantzas (CERN)

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

15:35 Luminosity optimisation - Simon Mathieu White (Universite de Paris-Sud (Paris XI)-Unknown-Unknown)

15:50 General discussion: Feedback from operational experience- What can be improved?
16:05 COFFEE break
COFFEE break
16:05 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Ramp: experience and issues, incl. MP - Walter Venturini Delsolaro (CERN)

16:55 Squeeze: strategy and issues, incl. MP - Stefano Redaelli (CERN)

17:15 Separation and crossing scheme, minimum beta star - Werner Herr (CERN)

17:35 Updated magnetic model for ramp and squeeze - Ezio Todesco (CERN)

17:55 Lessons from Physics Runs - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)

18:15 General discussion
19:00 Drinks - Hilton Hotel
Drinks - Hilton Hotel
19:00 - 20:00

20:00 Diner - Hilton Hotel
Diner - Hilton Hotel
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 20 January 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 BIS - BIC - SMP - Benjamin TODD (CERN)

09:15 Collimators and beam cleaning: first results and future plans - Chiara Bracco (Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL))

09:35 Beam Dump Systems and Abort Gap Cleaning - Jan Uythoven (CERN)

09:50 Injection and dump protection - Wolfgang BARTMANN

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

10:30 General discussion
10:45 COFFEE break
COFFEE break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:35 General discussion
12:45 LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
LUNCH break - Palais Lumière
12:45 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Requirements from the experiments - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)

14:30 2010 beam parameters, machine performance to be reached in 2010 - Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

15:00 2010 commissioning plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)

15:30 Wrap-up, list of subjects to follow-up, critical points… (tbc) - Paul Collier (CERN)

15:50 Concluding remarks (tbc) - Steve Myers (CERN)

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