Joint LHC Machine-Experiments Workshop on Very Forward Detectors

Thursday 25 Jan 2007, 09:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

AT auditorium (CERN)

The workshop is the follow-up of the TAN integration workshop of last year extended to all very forward detectors installed in the LHC tunnel. The aim is to review the status of the installation and the plans for commissioning and operation.

Morning Session

1 Welcome

Speaker: Dr D. Macina (CERN)

Slides Welcome.pdf Welcome.ppt

2 LHC startup plans for 2007 and 2008

Speaker: R. Bailey (CERN)

Slides LHCMEWJan2007.ppt

3 Signal and background simulation at the recombination chamber

Speaker: V. Talanov (CERN, IHEP Protvino)

Slides talanov_JME_WS_VFD_25-01-2007.pdf talanov_JME_WS_VFD_25-01-2007.ppt

4 Detectors installation in the TAN at IR1and IR5: status and planning

Speaker: A L Perrot (CERN)

Slides Workshop-TAN-25012007-presentation-final.pdf Workshop-TAN-25012007-presentation-final.ppt

10:35 coffee break

5 BRAN at IR1 and IR5: status, commissioning and operation (1)

Speaker: Dr H. Matis (LBNL)

Slides CERN-Workshop-Jan07-HM.pdf CERN-Workshop-Jan07-HM.ppt

6 BRAN at IR1 and IR5: status, commissioning and operation (2)

Speaker: Alessandro Ratti (LBNL)

Slides ratti.pdf

7 LHCf detectors: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: Dr O. Adriani (Firenze Univensity and INFN)

Slides LHCf_Adriani.pdf LHCf_Adriani.ppt

8 ATLAS ZDC: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: Dr S. White (BNL)

Slides fwd_workshop_2.pdf fwd_workshop_2.ppt

12:35 lunch break

Afternoon Session

9 CMS ZDC: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: Dr O. Grachov (University of Kansas)

Slides CERN_JAN25_07_ZDC_CMS.ppt

10 ALICE ZDC: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: Dr M. Gallio (Torino University and INFN)

Slides ALICEZDC-workshop.pdf ALICEZDC-workshop.ppt

11 BRAN at IR2 and IR8: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: E. Bravin (CERN)

Slides e_bravin.ppt.ppt

15:30 coffee break

12 TOTEM Roman Pots: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: Dr M. Oriunno (CERN)

Slides MOwrksh250107.pdf MOwrksh250107.ppt

13 ATLAS Roman Pots: status, commissioning and operation

Speaker: Dr B. Di Girolamo (CERN)

Slides ATLAS-RP-BDG-070125v2.pdf ATLAS-RP-BDG-070125v2.ppt

14 FP420: a project for Proton tagging in the 420m region around ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Prof. B. Cox (University of Manchester)

Slides briancox_cern.pdf

15 Conclusions

Speaker: Dr E. Tsesmelis (CERN)

Slides very_forward_det_wksp_concl..pdf very_forward_det_wksp_concl..ppt