Team Members

At CERN

Staff Members

Stefano Redaelli
- NDC section leader
- HL-LHC WP5 leader
- LHC Machine coordinator
- Convener of the PBC LHC Fixed Target working group

Reyes Alemany Fernandez
- OXY4LHC project leader
- LEIR machine supervisor

Frederik Van der Veken
- Simulation codes: SixTrack, SixDesk
- Development of BOINC for SixTrack at home
- Simulation of dynamic aperture

Massimo Giovannozzi
- Collimation
- Non-linear beam-dynamics
- FCC-hh study leader

Pascal Hermes
- Physics beyond colliders: TWOCRYST Study Leader
- Transverse beam halo
- Heavy-ion collimation

Roderik Bruce
- Coordinator of the LHC and HL-LHC heavy-ion programs
- Proton Collimation in LHC and future machines
- Heavy-ion collimation in LHC and future machines
- LHC performance limitations, e.g. β* and aperture
- Experimental beam backgrounds

Fellows

André Donadón Servelle (superv. R. Bruce)
- HL-LHC proton collimation performance

Andrey Abramov (superv. R. Bruce)
- FCC-ee collimation

Bjorn Lindstrom (superv. R. Bruce, S. Redaelli)
- HL-LHC proton collimation
- (HL-)LHC aperture models

Kay Dewhurst (superv. P.Hermes)
- Physics beyond colliders: TWOCRYST simulations

Maciej Slupecki (superv. R. Alemany)
- Ions in LHC injectors
- Oxygen for the LHC

Marco d' Andrea (superv. S. Redaelli)
- Crystal collimation
- BLM Threshold working group

Natalia Triantafyllou (superv. R. Bruce)
- Beam collimation performance in Run 3
- LHC ion beam performance

Project Assiciates (PJASs)

Carlo Emilio Montanari (RHUL)
- Analysis of diffusive models to describe non-linear beam dynamics in proton colliders

Doctoral Students

Giacomo Broggi
- FCC-ee collimation design
- Simulation for collimation of lepton beams

Rongrong Cai (until April 2024)
- Crystal collimation of heavy-ion beams

Milica Rakic
- Characterization and removal of transverse beam halos in LHC
- Limitations to HL-LHC from beam halos

Dora Erzsebet VERES
- Non-linear beam dynamics and beam manipulations with islands
- Slow extraction with islands and crystals

Technical Students and Interns

In collaborating institutes (not based at CERN)

Arkadiusz Gorzawski, European Spallation Source (ESS), Lund, Sweden

Armando Bazzani, University of Bologna, Italy

Gianluca Valentino, University of Malta
- Machine Learning
- Pattern Recognition
- Accelerator and Detector Control Systems
- Accelerator technology

Giulio Stancari, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
- Hollow electron lenses

Marcin Patecki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Physics beyond colliders

Tom Markiewicz, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California, USA

Former members

Gabriella Azzopardi
- Research automation and speed-up of LHC collimator alignment using Machine Learning

Federico Capoani
- Shaping transverse beam distributions by means of adiabatic crossing of resonances

Alex Fomin
- Physics beyond colliders

James Molson
- Coupling of SixTrack to Merlin, Geant4, FLUKA

Alessandro Frasca
- Losses from heavy-ion physics debris

Satya Sai Jagabathuni
- Beam-gas interaction at the HEL beam-gas curtain

Giulia Russo
- Analysis of non-linear beam dynamics in the CERN PS ring

Laurence Nevay
- Radiation transport & particle matter interaction simulation for experiments at accelerators