LHC beam commissioning workshop - Evian 19-20 January 2010

from Tuesday 19 January 2010 (09:00) to Wednesday 20 January 2010 (16:00)
Hilton and Palais Lumière (EVIAN)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Jan 2010
20 Jan 2010
AM
09:00
Welcome Coffee - Palais Lumière (until 10:00)
10:00
Opening Remarks (until 10:15)
10:15
Session 1: 2009: review of LHC beam operation and models (until 12:35)
10:15 Review of LHC operation : performance vs expectation, issues, necessary improvements? - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
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10:45 LHC optical model and necessary corrections (aperture model, tune, beta beat, coupling, chromaticity…) - Rogelio Tomas (CERN)  
Slides
11:15 Ppbar experience including beam-beam and intrabeam scattering - Lyn Evans (CERN)  
Slides
11:45 LHC beam behaviour (parameters, beam-beam, lifetime, expectation and observation) - Werner Herr (CERN)  
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12:05 LHC Injection and Transfer lines - Malika Meddahi (CERN)  
12:25 Discussion  
09:00
Session 4: Machine Protection systems (part not done in Cham10) (until 10:45)
Minutes
09:00 BIS - BIC - SMP - Dr 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 - Dr Jan Uythoven (CERN)  
09:50 Injection and dump protection - Wolfgang BARTMANN  
10:10 Overall MP and operation and scaling to 2010 - Dr Jorg Wenninger (CERN)  
10:30 General discussion  
Slides
10:45 --- COFFEE break ---
11:15
Session 5 : Controls and operational aspects: going from commissioning to operational regime (until 12:45)
11:15 What are the weak points of operation? - Dr Brennan Goddard (CERN)  
11:35 How to improve operational efficiency ? - Dr Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)  
11:55 Controls issues: CMW subscription, RBAC set-up… - Wojtek Sliwinski (Unknown)  
Slides
12:15 RF - performance & operational issues. - Andrew Butterworth (CERN)  
Paper
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12:35 General discussion  
PM
12:35 --- LUNCH break - Palais Lumière ---
14:00
Session 2 : Beam diagnostics (until 16:05)
14:00 Orbit system, incl. feedback, stability - Kajetan Fuchsberger  
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14:20 Tune, chromaticity, feed forward / Feed back - Ralph Steinhagen (AB/OP) Marek Gasior (CERN)  
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14:45 Beam loss monitor system - Dr 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)  
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15:50 General discussion: Feedback from operational experience- What can be improved?  
16:05 --- COFFEE break ---
16:30
Session 3: Ramp & Squeeze & Adjust & Stable beam (until 18:30)
16:30 Ramp: experience and issues, incl. MP - Walter Venturini Delsolaro (CERN)  
16:55 Squeeze: strategy and issues, incl. MP - Dr Stefano Redaelli (CERN)  
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17:15 Separation and crossing scheme, minimum beta star - Werner Herr (CERN)  
Paper
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17:35 Updated magnetic model for ramp and squeeze - Dr Ezio Todesco (CERN)  
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17:55 Lessons from Physics Runs - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)  
18:15 General discussion  
19:00 --- Drinks - Hilton Hotel ---
20:00 --- Diner - Hilton Hotel ---
12:45 --- LUNCH break - Palais Lumière ---
14:00
Session 6: 2010 operation (until 16:00)
14:00 Requirements from the experiments - Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)  
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14:30 2010 beam parameters, machine performance to be reached in 2010 - Dr Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)  
15:00 2010 commissioning plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
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15:30 Wrap-up, list of subjects to follow-up, critical points… (tbc) - Paul Collier (CERN)  
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15:50 Concluding remarks (tbc) - Steve Myers (CERN)  
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