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, November 16, 2026

8:30 AM LOC/IOC Welcome and Workshop Opening

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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

10:30 AM Panel Discussion

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Plenary Discussion Session

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM The Cost of Unreliability: Failures, Consequences, and Recovery
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM ISIS Target Station one, Recovery from a sticky position - Mark Shaw (STFC - ISIS)

4:00 PM Recovering Maintainability Through Interface Reconstruction in the LIPAc RFQ Cooling System - Keitaro Kondo (QST)

4:30 PM Parallel operation and how we intend to resume operations after the fire. - Markus Vossberg (GSI Germany)
Tuesday, November 17, 2026

8:30 AM Beyond Firefighting: Implemented Lessons Learned for Improved Reliability

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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

10:30 AM Breakout Session I

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Breakout Session II

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Poster session

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Diligent Incident and Fault Tracking and Effective Use of Data
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM From Faults to Availability: A Decade of Operational Experience with CERN's Accelerator Fault Tracking System - Gian Piero Di Giovanni (CERN)

4:00 PM Reliability and Availability at HIPA: A User-Driven Evolution (2024-2026) - Antonio Barchetti (Paul Scherrer Institut)

4:30 PM 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)
6:30 PM Banquet Dinner

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, November 18, 2026

8:30 AM Innovative Systems and Robotics for Reliable Accelerators

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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

10:30 AM Simulation versus Test Benches for Accelerator Reliability

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Technical Tour

1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 19, 2026

8:30 AM Superconducting Systems

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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

10:30 AM Talk from Invited Speakers

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Improving Reliability Through Software

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Breakout Session IV

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Breakout Session Ill

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday, November 20, 2026

8:30 AM Integrated Reliability across accelerator sub-systems – Importance of robust interface definition

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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

10:30 AM Summary and Close Out

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Excursion

1:30 PM - 5:30 PM