LHC Collimation Working Group
List of 2025 meetings

17.10.2025, 291st meeting - Joint with MPP
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          B. Salvachua: API change for the BLM threshold GUI
          J. Wenninger: Current options for 2026 high-intensity test
          S. Kostoglou: Potential intensity limitations for MD4 from beam-induced heating
                                 and vacuum at the TCLDs in IR2
          X. Buffat: Operation with asymmetric beam intensities
          M. Zielinska: Collimation strategy for the 2025 Pb ion run
          C. Wiesner: Proposed intensity rampup for Pb ions in 2025

19.09.2025, 290th meeting
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          D. Mirarchi: Post-Mortem and alignment strategy review after TCDQ/TCSP issue
          F. Van Der Veken: Re-validation after TS1
          M. Zielinska: First results from crystal MDs with oxygen and neon

13.07.2025, 289th meeting
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          N. Triantafyllou: Loss maps for pp and pO/OO/NeNe run
          P. Hermes: Summary of 2025 aperture measurements

13.06.2025, 288th meeting - Joint with MPP
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          N. Triantafyllou: Machine scenarion for oxygen and neon run
          M. Zielinska: Simulated collimation performance with oxygen
                                and neon and MD plans

21.03.2025, 287th meeting
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          E. Bravin: Repaired temperature probes
          N. Triantafyllou: 2025 collimation strategy and simulated performance
          M. Deile: Constraints for CTTPS pot settings
          M. Trzebinski: Constraints for AFP pot settings
          D. Mirarchi: Collimation commissioning activities

07.02.2025, 286th meeting
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          G. Sterbini: Expression of interest to install dBLM in IR3
          D. Mirarchi: Analysis of TCPC stability along cycle
          N. Triantafyllou: Pb ion loss maps and performance evaluation
          R. Cai: Crystal channeling performance over the years
          P. Hermes: Aperture measurements with ion beams

24.01.2025, 285th meeting
          Minutes and slides can be found on the Indico page.
          J. Valenzuela: Collimation outcome of edge-welded bellows task force
          F.-X.  Nuiry:  Guideline and procedures for the collimator back out
          D. Mirarchi: Optimised settings for reduced bellow stress
          B. Lindstrom: Statistics of collimator cycling
          N. Triantafyllou: Observation of TCLD loss spikes