Visit by Maurizio Vretenar, CERN

31 Aug 2026, 09:00 → 2 Sept 2026, 14:00 Europe/Stockholm

Monday 31 August

1 Welcome discussion

From ESS: Domenic Nicosia, Andrea Passarelli, Paolo Pierini, Ciprian + more

2 MCR (RFQ focus)

From ESS: Domenic Nicosia, Andrea Passarelli

12:00 LUNCH

3 FMEA

• 13:00 - 13:30 - RFQ System Overview - Domenic
• 13:30 - 15:00 - Failure Modes - Maurizio + All (Include causes, effects, consequences for beam operation, detection mechanisms, severity assessment, likelihood, etc.)

From ESS: Domenic Nicosia, Laurence Page, Andrea Passarelli, Morten Jensen, Walther Borg, Anders Svensson, Mamad Eshraqi, Kevin Jones, Inigo Alonso + more

Speakers: Domenic Nicosia (European Spallation Source ERIC), Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

ESS RFQ FTA.pptx

ESS_RFQ.pptx

ESS_RFQ_semonar_08_26.pptx

4 Presentation of Linac4 RFQ (and FMEA) at the Linac Group meeting

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

19:00 Dinner in Lund city centre (please see separate invitation)

Tuesday 1 September

5 Spare RFQ Strategy for ESS - ACC Management

6 Discussion about experience building an RFQ in house vs industry

From ESS: Domenic Nicosia, Paolo Piernini + others

12:00 LUNCH

7 FMEA (cont)

8 European Collaborations for ACC R&D

From ESS: Ciprian Plostinar, Tom Shea, Mamad Eshraqi + others

19:00 Dinner in Lund city centre (please see separate invitation)

Wednesday 2 September

09:00 Tunnel visit if possible

9 FMEA Wrap-up. Follow-up and report discussion.

12:00 LUNCH

10 Education and Training discussion

From ESS: Ciprian Plostinar, Mamad Eshraqi