1. Agenda Reorganisation MARS Offices Staff, fellows and students
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2. 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

3. 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;

4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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)
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8. 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
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9. 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?
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10. Questions and TE-TM meetings
How to go about circuit screening?
Presentation on ITER
Presentation on Circuit Screening
Circuit modelling
Documentation and data bases
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