Agenda Reorganisation MARS Offices

Agenda • Reorganisation • MARS • Offices • Staff, fellows and students Section meeting 13/01/2012 1

TE- MPE group new organisation A. SIEMKO (Group Leader) R. SCHMIDT (Deputy Group Leader) R. DENZ TE-MPE-EP (Tech. Coordinator & GL support) K. DAHLERUPPETERSEN Electrical Engineering M. ZERLAUTH Magnet Powering Interlocks & Software TE-MPE-MS Electronics for Protection B. PUCCIO TE-MPE-EE QD Electronics World. FIP/Nano. FIP & R 2 E BIS SMP DAQ systems HW reliability studies ITER prototype support CSCM support HW testers SM 18 QD upgrade & support PIC / WIC ITER prototype (support by EP & PE) FMCM Post-Mortem ELQA support during HWC MPE SW coordination Automated analysis tools Machine SW test tools SM 18 interlocks upgrade & support EE 600 A EE 13 k. A ELQA Protection diodes Circuit drawings QH PS systems Diagn. & Measurements Circuits' auxiliary equipment SM 18 EE upgrade & support R. SCHMIDT F. FORMENTI Performance Evaluation Electronic Modules TE-MPE-PE Performance evaluation Circuit simulations MP 3 r. MPP Hi. Rad Mat tests CLIC MPS CSCM ITER support HWC TE-MPE-EM Design office PCB assembly PCB development RD 51 Components ordering centre for MPE 2

TE- MPE PE members • • • • Michael Jonker; • Scott Rowan left; • Kajetan Fuchsberger and Michael Galetzka moved to Markus section; Arjan Verweij; Daniel Wollmann; Zinur Charifoulline - joined PE from QPS section; Rüdiger Schmidt; Carlos Omar Maidana – Fellow in 2 nd year on CLIC; Sigrid Wagner – Fellow in the 2 nd year; Emmanuele Ravaioli - Fellow in the 3 rd year; Juan Blanco Sancho – Ph. D student in the 3 rd year; Daniel Molnar – technical student; Evangelia Antonopoulou - technical student joined PE from ELQA section; Maria Hempel - technical student arrived this month January; Andrea Appolonio - technical Student in BE-OP to join our team as Ph. D student; M Koratzinos; 3

Diverse • MARS – Need to find dates for Arjan, Michael and Zinur – Need to find a date for the induction interview for Daniel • Offices: the section will move to the third floor… all of us • Staff, fellows and students Section meeting 13/01/2012 4

Some info on LHC • LHC operation will start with powering tests in February • LHC beam operation is schedule to start 7 March (possibly a few days later) • LHC operation until end of November • Then the powering system to be tested for operation at 6. 5 – 7 Te. V • Long shutdown I (LS 1) for LHC will start then • CSCM (thermal amplifier) tests: very likely to be done for one sector at the start of LS 1 • Beam operation will resume after summer in 2014 • Chamonix LHC workshop 6 -10 February 2011 • Energy likely to be 4 Te. V in 2012 • Expected integrated luminosity in 2012: 16 fb-1 Section meeting 13/01/2012 5

Main activities and challenges • Restart of LHC magnet powering system for operation at 4 Te. V • Ensure safe LHC beam operation during 2012 • Prepare LHC powering tests at end of 2012 – in view of later operation 6. 5 – 7 Te. V, including CSCM (thermal amplifier) • Modelling and documentation of the LHC magnet powering circuits • Prepare shutdown activities • Preparing LHC for operation at higher energy at – Understanding beam losses, in particular UFOs – Understanding quench limits (workshop to be organised in June or September) • CLIC: achieve common understanding of strategy for machine protection – Workshop to be organised in June • Hi. Rad. Mat: perform beam tunnelling experiment • RAMS studies for LHC, ITER and other accelerators (Med Austron) – Failure catalogue for LHC, possibly extension to other accelerators Section meeting 13/01/2012 6

Activities • Involvement in LHC machine operation and protection – related to beam – MPP and MPPr (Daniel W. , Juan, Maria) – understanding quenches in presence of beam (Arjan, Daniel W. ) • Powering system (Arjan, Daniel W. , Emmanuele, Zinur) • LHC maximum energy and diode bypass (thermal amplifier): Quench propagation, CSCM (Arjan, Daniel W. , Zinur) • Modelling of LHC circuits and comparison with experimental data (Emmanuele, Arjan, Evangelia) • Preparation for splice consolidation during shutdown (Arjan, Daniel M. ) • LHC hazard catalogue and dependability studies (Sigrid, Andrea) • Collaboration with ITER for machine protection (Sigrid) – RAMS studies for the LHC and ITER protection systems • Hi. Rad. Mat (Juan) – calculations and preparing an experiment for shock beam impact on matter – commissioning the Hi. Rad. Mat beam line • CLIC machine protection (Michael and Carlos) Section meeting 13/01/2012 7

Other activities Michael Jonker, Rüdiger Schmidt, Juan Blanco • Outreach and community service (presenting CERN to the public, teachers programme) Rüdiger Schmidt • Lecturing, DESY advisory committee, IPAC organising committee, HB 2012 session chair, German committee for accelerator physics Michael Jonker • Deputy RSO – Work on ALARA review working group – RSSO discussions (Radiation Safety Support Officer) Arjan Verweij • TSC (Technical Student Committee), AFC (Associate + Fellows Committee) deputy for TE • SIPB scientific info policy board for TE Section meeting 13/01/2012 8

Outlook • New post (replacement of Nuria) planned for Spring – Electrical engineer or applied physicist, mainly on magnet powering system and modelling • Ph. D student (Florian Burkart) is likely to join us in late spring – Topics to be defined, but will be related to beam induced damage and quenches • Possibly another Ph. D student will join to work on issues related to the powering system • During LS 1, are there any tasks in our team that require help from EICs? Section meeting 13/01/2012 9

Questions and TE-TM meetings • How to go about circuit screening? • Presentation on ITER • Presentation on Circuit Screening – Circuit modelling – Documentation and data bases Section meeting 13/01/2012 10