Welcome and workshop overview

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

Challenges in AD/ELENA operation

• Lajos Bojtar (CERN)

We give an overview of the AD operation from the point of view of the interface between the AD experiments and the machine. Specific examples of difficulties to deliver good quality antiproton beam to the experiments are selected from 20 years of operation. The sources of difficulties are various, arising from physics, beam instrumentation, difficult to detect equipment failure, the control system and human factors. We present the changes and challenges in the beam delivery because of the ELENA machine, which will deliver beam to the experiments from 2021.

Challenges in Machine-Experiment Interfacing

• Amit Nanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
• Markus Wiesinger (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg and Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN)
• Adélaïde Grimaud (Cosylab)

Sustainable Accelerator System Integration and Control Room Operation

• Ralph Steinhagen (GSI)

Accelerator technology evolves, so do best practice and people. Thus, operation and its supporting control system should also follow continuous integration (CI) and improvement principles (e.g. 'poka yoke') in order to avoid gradual obsolescence and eventual unmaintainablility. This presentation will high-light some of the more practical technical aspects related to vertical and lateral control system integration of accelerator-equipment and machine-experiment interfaces from a early prototype-, through commissioning- up to nominal operation phases.