Name: Accelerator Reliability Workshop 2026 (ARW2026)
Start: 2026-11-15T13:30:00+09:00
End: 2026-11-20T20:00:00+09:00
Location: Hotel Aomori

Monday, 9 November 2026
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Thursday, 12 November 2026
Friday, 13 November 2026
Saturday, 14 November 2026
Sunday, 15 November 2026

14:30 Registration

14:30 - 17:30

18:00 Welcome Reception

18:00 - 20:00

Monday, 16 November 2026

08:30 LOC/IOC Welcome and Workshop Opening

08:30 - 10:00

10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Panel Discussion

10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30

13:30 Plenary Discussion Session

13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 The Cost of Unreliability: Failures, Consequences, and Recovery
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 ISIS Target Station one, Recovery from a sticky position - Mark Shaw (STFC - ISIS)

16:00 Recovering Maintainability Through Interface Reconstruction in the LIPAc RFQ Cooling System - Keitaro Kondo (QST)

16:30 Parallel operation and how we intend to resume operations after the fire. - Markus Vossberg (GSI Germany)
Tuesday, 17 November 2026
08:30 Beyond Firefighting: Implemented Lessons Learned for Improved Reliability
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 From Reactive Operations to Long-Term Reliability at the Linac Coherent Light Source - Christopher Zimmer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:00 Does process and knowledge management improve the availability of accelerators through the systematic application of lessons learnt? - Siegfried Koepke (DESY Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron)

09:30 From Firefighting to Sustainment - An Integrated Framework for Accelerator Reliability - Martin Pieck (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Breakout Session I

10:30 - 12:00

Breakout Session II

10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30

13:30 Poster session

13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Diligent Incident and Fault Tracking and Effective Use of Data
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 From Faults to Availability: A Decade of Operational Experience with CERN's Accelerator Fault Tracking System - Gian Piero Di Giovanni (CERN)

16:00 Reliability and Availability at HIPA: A User-Driven Evolution (2024-2026) - Antonio Barchetti (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:30 Fault Analysis of CSNS I Linac DTL RF System and Its Operational Implications for CSNS II Upgrade - Meifei Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
18:30 Banquet Dinner

18:30 - 21:00
Wednesday, 18 November 2026
08:30 Innovative Systems and Robotics for Reliable Accelerators
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Anomaly detection trial at J-PARC accelerator - Kazami Yamamoto (J-PARC Center)

09:00 How Much Testing Is Enough? Endurance Qualification of the SPES Remote Handling Framework during Cold Commissioning - Giordano Lilli (INFN-LNL)

09:30 Wireless IoT Rad-Tol for Improved Reliability and Availability of Particle Accelerator Infrastructure - Salvatore Danzeca (CERN)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Simulation versus Test Benches for Accelerator Reliability
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Development and Validation of a Nondestructive Capacitive Pick-Up type Bunch Shape Monitor - Donghyun Kwak (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))

11:00 AvailSim4: A General-Purpose Simulation Tool for Accelerator Availability - Jack Heron (CERN)

11:30 Safety Test Benches for ITER TBM Systems at QST Rokkasho: Experimental Validation of Safety Assessments - Takanori Hirose (QST)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 12:45

12:45 Technical Tour

12:45 - 18:00
Thursday, 19 November 2026
08:30 Superconducting Systems
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Preparing the RHIC helium plant for future EIC operations - Russell Feder (Brookhaven National Lab)

09:00 Superconducting systems reliability at the Spallation Neutron Source - Paolo Pizzol (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:30 Efforts and Challenges Achieving and Maintaining High-Reliability SRF Systems at CEBAF - Daniel Moser (Jefferson Lab)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Invited Session

10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30

13:30 Improving Reliability Through Software

13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 Breakout Session IV

15:30 - 17:00

Breakout Session Ill

15:30 - 17:00
Friday, 20 November 2026
08:30 Integrated Reliability across accelerator sub-systems – Importance of robust interface definition
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 The SNS Electron Catcher: Lessons on Reliability Impacts Resulting from Interface Definitions - Melissa Harvey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Spallation Neutron Source)

09:00 Efforts at the SPring-8 campus to improve the operational reliability of the integrated accelerator complex - Hitoshi Tanaka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)

09:30 The Interface Is a System: Managing Boundaries for Reliable Integration - Rafael Xavier da Silveira (European Spallation Source)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Summary and Close Out

10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Excursion

13:00 - 17:30