LHC Collimation Working Group
List of 2009 meetings


Minutes: 109th meeting 07.12.09 PDF, Slides    
  108th meeting 09.11.09 PDF, Slides    
  107th meeting 12.10.09 PDF, Slides    
  106th meeting 21.09.09 PDF, Slides    
  105th meeting 07.09.09 PDF, Slides    
  104th meeting 24.08.09 PDF, Slides    
  103rd meeting 27.04.09 PDF, Slides    
  102nd meeting 30.03.09 PDF, Slides    
  101st meeting 23.03.09 PDF, Slides    
  100th meeting 16.03.09 PDF, Slides    
  99th meeting 02.03.09 PDF, Slides    
  98th meeting 16.02.09 PDF, Slides    
           
           

07.12.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      Regular collimation status reports
                            
R. Losito: Hardware and tunnel activities
                            R. Assmann: Remote and beam commissioning (PDF)
                            A. Bertarelli: Phase 2 at CERN
                            T. Markiewicz, J. Smith: Phase 2 at SLAC (PDF1, PDF2)
                            M. Brugger: FLUKA work
                      Rond table discussion on LHC beam test program.

09.11.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      Regular collimation status reports
                            
O. Aberle: Hardware and tunnel activities
                            R. Assmann: Remote and beam commissioning
                            A. Bertarelli: Phase 2 at CERN (PDF)
                            T. Markiewicz: Phase 2 at SLAC (PDF)
                            F. Cerutti: FLUKA work (PDF)
                      A. Rossi: Beam losses and collimation cleaning at 3.5 TeV (PDF)

12.10.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      Regular collimation status reports
                            
R. Losito: Hardware and tunnel activities
                            S. Redaelli: Remote and beam commissioning (PDF)
                            R. Assmann: Phase 2 at CERN
                            J. Smith : Phase 2 at SLAC (PDF)
                            V. Vlachoudis: FLUKA work (Introductory slides by Ralph, PDF)
                      C. Bracco: Collimator Analysis Program (CAP) tool (PDF)

21.09.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      Regular collimation status reports
                            
R. Losito: Hardware and tunnel activities
                            R. Assmann: Remote and beam commissioning
                            A. Bertarelli: Phase 2 at CERN
                            FLUKA work
                      S. Lundgren : Detailed status report on Phase II at SLAC (PDF)
                      T. Kramer: Losses on TCTs from asynchronous dump (PDF)
                      C. Bracco: Collimator Analysis Program (CAP) tool [postponed]
                      C. Boccard: Performance on BPM integrated in PII collimator (PDF)

07.09.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      R. Assmann: Collimator project organization (PDF)
                      Regular collimation status reports
                            
R. Losito: Hardware and tunnel activities
                            R. Assmann: Remote and beam commissioning
                            A. Bertarelli: Phase 2 at CERN
                            J. Smith: Phase 2 at SLAC (PDF)
                            F. Cerutti: FLUKA work (PDF)
                      A. Bertarelli: Discussion on procedure for SPS-LSS5 layout change (discussion)
                      
F. Roncarolo: TCL simulations (PDF)
                      A. Rossi: Collimator setting proposal for 3.5 TeV (PDF)
                      D. Wollmann: Collimator data access tool for commissioning (PDF)

24.08.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      Regular collimation status reports
                            
O. Aberle: Hardware and tunnel activities
                            R. Assmann: Remote and beam commissioning
                            A. Dallocchio : Phase 2 at CERN (PDF)
                            S. Lundgren: Phase 2 at SLAC (PDF)
                            L. Lari: FLUKA work
                      C. Bracco: Commissioning scenarios and availability of loss data (PDF)
                      S. Redaelli: Final implementation of RBAC for collimation (PDF)
                      F. Roncarolo: TCL simulations (PDF - Postponed to next meeting)

27.04.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      S. Redaelli: Status of CCC applications (PDF)
                      M. Ph. Dutour: Roman pot control system (PDF)
                      M. Deile: The interlocks (PDF)
                      X. Pons: Position control of the Roman pot (PDF)

30.03.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      Dry-runs of review talks - final slides available on the review web page!
                      
G. Bellodi: Improved Ion Collimation Efficiency
                      E. Metral: Collimation-Driven Impedance
                      D. Macina: Requirements from Experiments
                      Heinz Vincke: RP aspects
                      R. Assmann for T. Weiler: Improved cleaning

23.03.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      
F. Cerutti: Update of FLUKA simulations for Phase II (PDF)
                      T. Markiewicz: Status of Phase II hardware at SLAC (PDF)

16.03.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      
R. Assmann: Overview of the Phase II solutions [dry-run] (PDF)
                      J. Smith: Integration of a Hollow Electron Lens Scraper into the
                                     LHC Collimation System (PDF)

02.03.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      
R. Assmann: Organization of the Phase II review (Programme on INDICO)
                      V. Vlachoudis: Status of FLUKA studies for Phase II collimation (PDF)
                      G. Bellodi: Ion collimation performance during energy ramp (PDF)
                      F. Arnold-Malandain: New temperature sensors in IP3 and IP7 (PDF)
                      A. Marsili: Presentation of PhD work on beam loss studies (PDF)

16.02.09    Minutes (PDF)
                      M. Sapinski:    
BLM quench threshold estimates on the MB magnet (PDF)
                      V. Previtali:     Trip report from Tevatron - crystal experiments (PDF)