Conveners
Lessons learnt from the pandemic
- Chair: Michael Bieler (DESY)
Description
The outbreak of the pandemic in spring 2020 forced us to quickly adopt a lot of new policies and technologies for accelerator operations. Before, we did not need or like this policies or technologies, or we did not have the money and resources to introduce them.
If, one day, the pandemic is over, will we just go back to the operation we had before, or will we be happy to keep some of the pandemic driven innovations, because they have proven to be useful?
Talks in this session should focus on COVID-19 driven changes in operation that have become good practice, like remote or even automated operation (including machine learning?), remote access for troubleshooting or beam studies, remote training, video calls to the control room and other useful innovations.
The Institut Curie– CPO facility consists in one cyclotron delivering a beam of protons for three treatment rooms. The activities of the BTI service are a mix of operations, technical support, maintenances and developments to keep the facility operational from 8h00 to 19h30, 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year with (only 4 fridays off per year). Several evenings and part of week-ends are used...
The Collider-Accelerator Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory was in the midst of run 20 for RHIC when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. After a brief shutdown, the complex was back up and running. This talk covers the software and controls changes and upgrades made to facilitate resuming running, along with those tools we found most useful in maintaining performance and safety. For...
Within LEAPS, the League of European Accelerator based-Photon Sources, the idea of an LEAPS Integrated Platform (LIP) has been developed bringing together the fields of Digital Twinning, Machine Learning and Virtual Diagnostic. This platform should contain digital twins from the accelerator over the photon transport up to the experiments. This does not only allow the experimentalists to get...