Workshop on LHC Interaction Region Correction Systems 

 (First Announcement)

 May 6--7, 1999 at Brookhaven National Laboratory

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 This is the first announcement for the Workshop on the LHC Interaction Region 
 Correction Systems to be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory May 6-7, 
 1999. The workshop will bring together CERN, BNL, FNAL, and other 
 interested personnel to address Interaction Region magnet field quality 
 issues, to review the principle and efficiency of correction and 
 compensation schemes, and to finalize a compensation plan and corrector
 layout for the LHC Interaction Region. The workshop scope will cover FNAL 
 and KEK built quadrupoles, BNL built separation dipoles, and European 
 Interaction Region correctors. A detailed agenda will be forwarded to the 
 participants as the plan for the workshop coalesces.

 Tentatively, the first morning of the workshop will be reserved for
 discussing the field quality issues of the IR magnets including
 the impact of systematic quadrupole errors (b6, b10), a comparison of
 possible arrangements of KEK and FNAL quadrupoles in the triplets, and 
 the issues related to LHC heavy-ion operation. The first afternoon will 
 concentrate on IR specific compensation schemes and plans including decisions 
 on magnet orientation and tuning shim application, and possible 
 local corrector contents and layouts. The second morning will 
 be dedicated to more general correction schemes including 
 global correction, beam-based correction and sorting. The second
 afternoon will be reserved for final discussions. 

 We plan to collect and publish the contributions to the workshop
 in forms of binded proceedings. Participants are required to 
 submit their papers in electronic format two weeks after the 
 workshop. 

 Participants are requested to complete the enclosed registration form and
 return it to Pam Manning. A no-host dinner will be organized on May 6, 1999.
 A block of hotel rooms off-site of BNL has been reserved for the participants.
 If you desire such a room, please inform Pam Manning (pmanning@bnl.gov) using
 the attached form. The second announcement including the workshop agenda will
 be distributed in about two weeks. 
 The up-to-date information of the workshop can be found at

 http://www.rhichome.bnl.gov/LHC/org/workshop.html

 We hope you will be able to attend the workshop. 

 Jie Wei (wei1@bnl.gov), Wolfram Fischer (Wolfram.Fischer@bnl.gov)



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		Registration Form

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Please return the completed form to pmanning@bnl.gov