Date

 Topic

 Remarks

12/01

Project thesis CFC (W. Friesenbichler) [doc]

05/02

Diplom thesis CFC (W. Friesenbichler) [pdf.gz]

14/02/2003

 BLM Dependability 1 [pdf] (Gianluca Guaglio)

 Preliminary Reliability Considerations

18/03/2003

 BLM Threshold Comparator [pdf] (Christos Zamantzas)

 Preliminary Design Considerations

08/04/2003

 BLMlasermarket01o.pdf (Gianluca Guaglio)

 Transmitter/Receiver first market survey

10/06/2003

 BLMTC Post Mortem & Memory Requirements [pdf] (Christos Zamantzas)

 Still to be checked for consistency. For more info check LHC Post-Mortem Home Page

12/08/2003

 BLM Threshold Comparator [pdf] (Christos Zamantzas)

 Latest TC design & Memory calculations.

23/09/2003

 BLM Design Issues [pdf] (Christos Zamantzas)

 Storage of Th values, Beam energy, Status bits, Identification and installation procedures. 

21/10/2003

 BLM_031021 (Gianluca Guaglio)

 H6 and Louvain measurements.

21/10/2003

 BLMTC Logging & Post Mortem  [pdf] (CZ)

 Design strategy for log and PM data.

19/11/2003

Beam Loss Monitors (E.B. Holzer for the BLM team)

AB-LTC Technical Review

22/02/2004

The Beam Loss Monitoring System(B. Dehning for the BLM team)Paper, Talk

Chamonix talk on the commissioning and running in of the system + SPS test results and collimation features

02/2004

Section review meeting. Dependability + irrradiations. Slides

Guaglio's speeches on Dependability of BLM, Radiation test on analog part, poposed test on analog electronic, dump levels approximations.

05/2004

BIW2004 (Gianluca Guaglio)

Contribution to the Beam Instrumentation Workshop: Paper and Slides

09/07/2002

LEADE (B. Dehning)

Working group talk

14/06/2004

LEADE (B. Dehning

Working group talk

20/11/2003

Specification comments (D. Dehning)

BI TB

07/2004

Longitudinal Loss Distribution, paper, poster. (E.B. Holzer, B. Dehning)

EPAC 04

07/2004

Design of the BLM System for the LHC, paper, poster. (E.B. Holzer et al.)

EPAC 04

07/2004

Beam Loss Monitoring System, slides. (E.B. Holzer)

External Review of LHC Collimation Project

07/2004

Beam Loss Monitors for the LHC, slides. (E.B. Holzer)

LHC Specification Committee

10/2004

ICFA2004 (G. Guaglio)

Contribution to the ICFA-HB2004 workshop: Article and Slides

11/2004

Radiation day 2004, CERN, (B.Dehning)  (slides)

LHC BLM system

03/2005

Quench level work shop, CERN, (B.Dehning) (slides)

LHC BLM system

04/2005

Machine protection review, CERN, (B.Dehning) (slides), (recommendation, slides, paper)

LHC BLM system

05/06/05

DIPAC,  (B.Dehning), (slides, paper)

 LHC BLM system

06/2005

PAC, R. Filippini at. al, (doc, pdf)

RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE LHC MACHINE PROTECTION SYSTEM

10/2005

Beam Loss Monitoring System for the LHC, E.B. Holzer et al. (presentation, paper)

IEEE NSS 2005

29/12/05

Radiation Day CERN, B. Dehning (ppt)

LHC Beam Loss System (HERA dump)

14/12/05

Interpretation and Use of BLM Data, LTC (ppt)

16/12/05

PhD Gianluca Guaglio (Presentation.ppt, Thesis.pdf)

BLMS Dependability

05/02/06

 Chamonix VX, 2006, B. Dehning, (ppt, paper)

BLM commissioning

06/02/06

Chamonix VX, 2006 BI , E,B, Holzer (presentation, paper)

Group Commitments and Major Issues for Distributed Systems

06/04/06

AB seminar, Reliability study of the BLM system, (pdf)

G. Guaglio

01/06/06

ICFA Tsukuba 2006,  E,B, Holzer (presentation, paper)

Commissioning and operational scenarios of LHC BLM system

1/8/2006

Overview Machine Protection, Schmidt et al. [pdf]

New Journal of Physics 8 (2006) 290

17/09/06

OEPG-FAKT 2006, M. Stockner (presentation) (german)

05/10/06

Siena IPRD06, D. Kramer (presentation, paper)

Simulations & beam tests of SEM (BLMS)

30/10/06

IEEE NSS-MIC 2006, M. Stockner (poster, paper), San Diego

Measurements and Simulations of Ionization Chamber Signals in Mixed Radiation Fields for the LHC BLM System

30/10/06

IEEE NSS-MIC 2006, C. Zamantzas, (poster, paper), San Diego

7/12/06

MAC, R. Jones (pdf)

Status on beam instrumentation (status BLM)

9/3/07

MPWG, L. Ponce (presentation)

Remote setting of LHC BLM thresholds?

23/5/07

DIPAC07, M. Stockner, E.B. Holzer (poster, paper)

Classification of the LHC BLM Ionization Chamber

June 2007

PAC 2007, E.B. Holzer (poster (pdf, odp), paper)

The LHC Beam Loss Measurement System

June 2007

PAC 2007, M. Stockner, D. Kramer. (poster (pdf, odp), paper)

LHC Beam Loss Detector Design: Simulations and Measurements

10.2007

PhD Thesis, M. Stockner (pdf)

Beam Loss Calibration Studies

for High Energy Proton Accelerators

18/10/07

CLIC workshop, E.B. Holzer (presentation)

Machine Protection system: Lessons learnt from LHC

2/11/07

IEEE NSS 2007, D.Kramer (presentation, paper)

Very High Radiation Detector for the LHC BLM System Based on Secondary Electron Emission

2/11/07

IEEE NSS 2007, C.Zamantzas (presentation, paper)

The LHC Beam Loss Monitoring System's
Data Contribution to other Systems.

2/11/07

IEEE NSS 2007,  E.B. Holzer (poster, paper)

Accuracy of LHC proton loss rate determination by the BLM system

15/11/07

PS test measurements with IC (ppt)

BI TB, V. Prieto

30/1/08

LTC, L. Ponce (pdf)

Commissioning of the LHC Beam Loss Monitor System

5/3/08

LTC extended, L. Ponce (presentation)

11/04/2008

APC, T. Boehlen (pdf) (pdf)

LHC collimator measurements in the SPS

11/04/2008

APC, D. Kramer (pdf)

BLM electronics tests, and ionisation chamber SEM comparison

 01/05/2008

ESREL, S. Wagner (pdf)

Balancing safety and availability for an electronic protection system