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)
Hilton and Palais Lumière (EVIAN)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jan 19, 2010
Jan 20, 2010
AM
9:00 AM
Welcome Coffee - Palais Lumière (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM
Opening Remarks (until 10:15 AM)
10:15 AM
Session 1: 2009: review of LHC beam operation and models (until 12:35 PM)
10:15 AM Review of LHC operation : performance vs expectation, issues, necessary improvements? - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
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Slides
10:45 AM LHC optical model and necessary corrections (aperture model, tune, beta beat, coupling, chromaticity…) - Rogelio Tomas (CERN)  
Slides
11:15 AM Ppbar experience including beam-beam and intrabeam scattering - Lyn Evans (CERN)  
Slides
11:45 AM LHC beam behaviour (parameters, beam-beam, lifetime, expectation and observation) - Werner Herr (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
12:05 PM LHC Injection and Transfer lines - Malika Meddahi (CERN)  
12:25 PM Discussion  
9:00 AM
Session 4: Machine Protection systems (part not done in Cham10) (until 10:45 AM)
Minutes
9:00 AM BIS - BIC - SMP - Dr 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 - Dr Jan Uythoven (CERN)  
9:50 AM Injection and dump protection - Wolfgang BARTMANN  
10:10 AM Overall MP and operation and scaling to 2010 - Dr Jorg Wenninger (CERN)  
10:30 AM General discussion  
Slides
10:45 AM --- COFFEE break ---
11:15 AM
Session 5 : Controls and operational aspects: going from commissioning to operational regime (until 12:45 PM)
11:15 AM What are the weak points of operation? - Dr Brennan Goddard (CERN)  
11:35 AM How to improve operational efficiency ? - Dr Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)  
11:55 AM Controls issues: CMW subscription, RBAC set-up… - Wojtek Sliwinski (Unknown)  
Slides
12:15 PM RF - performance & operational issues. - Andrew Butterworth (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
12:35 PM General discussion  
PM
12:35 PM --- LUNCH break - Palais Lumière ---
2:00 PM
Session 2 : Beam diagnostics (until 4:05 PM)
2:00 PM Orbit system, incl. feedback, stability - Kajetan Fuchsberger  
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Slides
2:20 PM Tune, chromaticity, feed forward / Feed back - Ralph Steinhagen (AB/OP) Marek Gasior (CERN)  
Paper
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2:45 PM Beam loss monitor system - Dr 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)  
Paper
Slides
3:50 PM General discussion: Feedback from operational experience- What can be improved?  
4:05 PM --- COFFEE break ---
4:30 PM
Session 3: Ramp & Squeeze & Adjust & Stable beam (until 6:30 PM)
4:30 PM Ramp: experience and issues, incl. MP - Walter Venturini Delsolaro (CERN)  
4:55 PM Squeeze: strategy and issues, incl. MP - Dr Stefano Redaelli (CERN)  
Paper
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5:15 PM Separation and crossing scheme, minimum beta star - Werner Herr (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
5:35 PM Updated magnetic model for ramp and squeeze - Dr Ezio Todesco (CERN)  
Slides
5:55 PM Lessons from Physics Runs - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)  
6:15 PM General discussion  
7:00 PM --- Drinks - Hilton Hotel ---
8:00 PM --- Diner - Hilton Hotel ---
12:45 PM --- LUNCH break - Palais Lumière ---
2:00 PM
Session 6: 2010 operation (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM Requirements from the experiments - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)  
Paper
Slides
2:30 PM 2010 beam parameters, machine performance to be reached in 2010 - Dr Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)  
3:00 PM 2010 commissioning plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
Paper
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3:30 PM Wrap-up, list of subjects to follow-up, critical points… (tbc) - Paul Collier (CERN)  
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3:50 PM Concluding remarks (tbc) - Steve Myers (CERN)  
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