# Presentation: 033281

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## Beam Commissioning Status

**Year to Date presence at CERN**
**Upcoming Participation**
**Informal review of LHC Beam Commissioning structure**
**Beam Commissioning ****‘Expression of Interest’**
**Budget**
**Summary**

## Recent Presence at CERN

**Several US visitors to CERN in January/February 06**
** ****Nearly continuous presence for ~6 weeks**
** ****Chamonix workshop**
**Peggs, Syphers, Harms, (Shiltsev)**
** ****Software**
**Gysin, McCrory, Slaughter**
**Application development/Schottky begun**
** ****Beam Commissioning logistics**
**Team Account set up**
**Access, Training, etc.**
** ****CCC opening**
** ****Get to know LHC beam principals**
**Reciprocal visits to FNAL in February**
** ****Jacquet, Normann, Suykerbuyk**

## Upcoming Participation

**Refining areas of involvement, beginning to assign names/share with CERN counterparts**
** ****13 LARP people identified + Toohig fellows?**
**LARP presence during SPS running**
** ****3 Fermilab people this summer – Ranjbar, Still, Tan**
** ****Others?**
**Sector test presence**
** ****planning for late 2006/early 2007 for 2 weeks**
**Software effort**
** ****Use Schottky as proof-of-principle**
** ****BC funds (1/2 FTE) reprogrammed for same**** **
**Long-term visits planning**

## Upcoming Participation –  SPS Schedule

## Commissioning Structure Review

**Informal review of LHC Beam Commissioning structure**
** ****Participants were**
** ****Wolfram Fischer – BNL**
** ****Gerald Annala – FNAL**
** ****Mike Syphers – FNAL**
** ****Elvin Harms – FNAL (facilitator)**
**Reviewed structure/organisation for LHC beam commissioning as laid out by Roger Bailey, et al**
** ****Duties & Responsibilities**
** ****Personnel**
** ****Tasks**

## LHC Beam Commissioning Organization – this Review

**LHC Beam Commissioning Organization – this Review**

- Do the areas identified on the following slides adequately address all phases/conditions during commissioning?
- If so, our work is done
- If not, what are the deficiencies?

## LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems

**LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems**

**Vacuum**
**Insulating vacuum**
**Beam vacuum (ring)**
**Beam vacuum (experiments)**
**Electron cloud**
***6 AT/VAC***
***2 AB/ABP***

**Beam Transfer**
**SPS extraction**
**Transfer lines**
**Injection region**
**First turn**
**Protection devices**
**Beam dump**
**MKQA**
***2 AB/BT***
***3 AB/OP***
***5 AB/ABP***

## LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems

**LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems**

- RF
**Machine synchronisation**
**Capture**
**450GeV plateau**
**Acceleration**
**Storage**
**Transverse damping**
***7 AB/RF***

**Instrumentation**
**Screens**
**BCT**
**BPM and orbit**
**BLM**
**PLL for Q, Q’, C**
**Profile monitors**
**Schottky monitors**
**Luminosity monitors**
***15 AB/BDI***
***15 AB/ABP***
***1 AB/OP***
***1 AB/RF***
***3 LARP***

## LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems

**LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems**

**Accelerator Physics**
**Optics**
**Aperture**
**Impedance**
**Lattice correctors**
**Triplet correctors**
**Lifetimes**
**Separation / Crossing**
**Collisions**
**Luminosity**
**Ions**
***16 AB/ABP***
***4 LARP***

**Magnetic model**
**Reference magnet**
***1AT/MTM***
***1 OP***
**Quench recovery**
**Post Mortem**
**Beam Machine Protection Systems**
**BIC commissioning**
**Interface to BLM**
**Interface to BD**
***3 AB/CO***
***2 LARP***

## LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems

**LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems**

**Radiation Protection**
***1 SC/RP***
***1 AB/ABP***
**Radiation monitoring**
***1 TS/LEA***
**Experimental Conditions**
**Solenoids**
**Dipoles and compensation**
**W.Herr**
**Roman pots**
**LHCb velo**
**Backgrounds**
***3 AB/ABP***

**Power Converters**
**Sector tracking**
***1 AB/PO***
**Collimation**
**Settings**
**Collimation**
***1 AB/ABP***
***1 LARP***
**High Level Controls**
**Closed orbit**
**Real time Feedback**
***3 AB/OP***
***1 LARP***

## LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems

**LHC Beam Commissioning Organization - Systems**

**Operational Phases**
**Filling efficiency**
**450GeV plateau**
**Snapback**
**Ramp**
**Squeeze**
**Physics**
***1 AB/OP***
***3 LARP***

## Commissioning Structure Review

**Summary of Review**
** ****Overall positive impression of structure**
** ****Questions and comments regarding**
** ****documentation**
** ****over-burdened staff**
** ****unexpected difficulties**
**Review summary document submitted to Roger Bailey**

## Beam Commissioning Expression of Interest

**Beam Commissioning ****‘Expression of Interest’**
**Go to **_**[http://](http://larp.fnal.gov/commissioningForm.html)**__**[larp.fnal.gov/commissioningForm.html](http://larp.fnal.gov/commissioningForm.html)**_
**Test marketed to Fermilab/LARP – 10 responses**
**Full roll-out this meeting**
**Please respond ASAP**

## Beam Commissioning Expression of Interest

## Spending

**~1/3 for BC**

## Summary

- More people have been to CERN recently
- Additional ones this summer (autumn?) for beam tests
- Planning for sector test
- Reviewed (& endorsed) Commissioning structure/plan
- Formally seeking interested people