2012 ABT/OP LHC MD• Dedicated MDs

– Transfer line stability [VK/LD]– Beam losses at injection (including 288b injection, new BLM checks, ...) [CB/WB]– Protection from long devices (TCDQ/TCT checks) [CB/WB] – Impedance of TCDQ and TDIs (inlc. bunch length dependence?) [BG/BS]– Injection matching and emittance preservation [VK/BG]– Q20 optics beam extraction, transfer and injection [WB/BG]– UFOs at MKIs and MKQ [JU/TB]– Quench limits at injection and dump protection elements [CB]

• Machine setup– Alignment of and protection from long devices [CB/WB]– Extraction and injection kicker waveforms and timing optimisation [MB/VK]– Abort and injection gap cleaning [MM/VK]

• Parasitic MDs– Beam induced heating of various elements (TDI, MKI, TCDQ) [BG/MB]