INJECTOR MACHINE DEVELOPMENT DAYS 2017

Abstract

Following the important progress made in 2016 in the Machine Development (MD) activities that took place in all the accelerators of the LHC injector chain, the days 23-24 March, 2017, have been devoted to summarise the main out- come from the MDs and lay out the plans for the next steps. The event was also triggered by the following motivations and goals:

• Give a chance to the MD users to present their results;

• Provide a platform in which MD users, MD coordina- tors and operations crews meet and discuss openly the optimisation of the MD time and procedures, taking into account of the different perspectives;

• Provide an overview of all the ongoing activities to better frame their impact in the broader picture of the CERN short and long term projects;

• Identify the open questions, define and prioritise ma- chine studies in the injectors for 2017;

• Create the opportunity to obtain and document written reports from MD users.

  Within this contribution, we just summarise the context and the main points discussed at the event, which should be retained in an effort to improve the MD logistics and or- ganisation. Concerning the individual MD activities and results, these are described in detail in the other papers of these Proceedings.