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) B. PUCCIO (Tech. Coordinator & GL support) R. DENZ M. ZERLAUTH K. DAHLERUP-PETERSEN R. SCHMIDT F. FORMENTI Electronics for Protection TE-MPE-EP   QD Electronics WorldFIP/NanoFIP & R2E BIS SMP DAQ systems HW reliability studies ITER prototype support CSCM support HW testers SM18 QD upgrade & support Magnet Powering Interlocks & Software TE-MPE-MS   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 SM18 interlocks upgrade & support Electrical Engineering TE-MPE-EE   EE 600A EE 13kA ELQA Protection diodes Circuit drawings QH PS systems Diagn. & Measurements Circuits' auxiliary equipment SM18 EE upgrade & support Performance Evaluation  TE-MPE-PE Performance evaluation Circuit simulations MP3 rMPP HiRad Mat tests CLIC MPS CSCM ITER support HWC Electronic Modules  TE-MPE-EM Design office PCB assembly PCB development RD51   Components ordering centre for MPE

TE- MPE PE members Michael Jonker; Arjan Verweij; Daniel Wollmann; Zinur Charifoulline - joined PE from QPS section; Rüdiger Schmidt; Carlos Omar Maidana – Fellow in 2nd year on CLIC; Sigrid Wagner – Fellow in the 2nd year; Emmanuele Ravaioli - Fellow in the 3rd year; Juan Blanco Sancho – PhD student in the 3rd 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 PhD student; M Koratzinos; Scott Rowan left; Kajetan Fuchsberger and Michael Galetzka moved to Markus section;

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 TeV Long shutdown I (LS1) for LHC will start then CSCM (thermal amplifier) tests: very likely to be done for one sector at the start of LS1 Beam operation will resume after summer in 2014 Chamonix LHC workshop 6-10 February 2011 Energy likely to be 4 TeV 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 TeV Ensure safe LHC beam operation during 2012 Prepare LHC powering tests at end of 2012 – in view of later operation at 6.5 – 7 TeV, including CSCM (thermal amplifier) Modelling and documentation of the LHC magnet powering circuits Prepare shutdown activities Preparing LHC for operation at higher energy 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 HiRadMat: 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 HiRadMat (Juan) calculations and preparing an experiment for shock beam impact on matter commissioning the HiRadMat 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 PhD 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 PhD student will join to work on issues related to the powering system During LS1, 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