ICFA Mini-Workshop on Beam-Beam Effects in Circular Colliders

Scientific Programme

(partial list)

1) Beam-Beam Operational Experience:

• Beam-beam effects in RHIC
  
• Beam-beam issues in the luminosity performance at BEPCII
  
• Luminosity leveling and beam-beam effects in the LHC
  
• Beam-beam orbit effects in the LHC
  
• Beam-beam effects in KEKB/SuperKEKB
  
• IR magnets for SuperKEKB
  
• ....

2) Coherent Beam-Beam/Strong-Strong:

• Numerical and experimental studies of coherent beam-beam modes: stability and decoherence
  
• Coherent beam-beam instability in collision with a large crossing angle
  
• Landau damping of head-tail modes in the presence of beam-beam interactions
  
• ......

3) Incoherent Beam-Beam/Weak Strong:

• LHC weak-strong beam-beam simulations and experiments
  
• Dynamic aperture simulations of colliding beams and operational scenarios of HL-LHC
  
• Luminosity modelling and beam lifetimes in the LHC
  
• Working point optimisation for colliding beams in HL-LHC
  
• Predicting losses from dynamic aperture simulations: LHC measurements versus simulations
  
  -....

4) Theory and Simulation:

• Beam-beam modelling revision in SIXTRACK
  
• Numerical noise in strong-strong beam-beam simulation
  
• Long-term simulations of beam-beam dynamics with GHOST
  
• Renormalization group theory application to beam-beam study
  
• ......

5) Future Colliders:

• FCC hadron colliders beam-beam effects
  
• Beam-Beam beta-beating effects and implication for the HL-LHC and FCC
  
• Landau damping using electron lens for FCC
  
• beam-beam simulations for the LHeC project
  
• Beam-beam effects in CEPC
  
• Beam-beam effects in JLEIC
  
• Strong-strong simulation of e-p beam-beam interaction eRHIC
  
• Beam-beam interaction with crossing angles
  
• Beam-beam effects with multiple interactions points in eRHIC
  
• Effects of electron bunch replacement in eRHIC
  
• Proton beam emittance growth due to strongly disrupted electron beam in eRHIC
  
• Beam-beam effects in plasma acceleration based linear collider
  
• ......

6) Beam-Beam Compensation

• The RHIC electron lenses - technology and e-beam measurements
  
• Head-on beam-beam compensation in RHIC
  
• Long-range compensation simulations with wires for the LHC and HL-LHC
  
• Long-range compensation experiment in the LHC
  
• E-lens test stand at CERN
  
• ......