LHC: status and commissioning plans
M. Lamont
TL;DR
The paper reviews the LHC's commissioning status, discusses the incident that caused damage, and outlines repair efforts and future operational plans for 2009-2010.
Contribution
It provides a detailed account of the LHC's commissioning progress, incident analysis, and future schedule and luminosity goals.
Findings
Initial beam commissioning was successful.
The sector 34 incident caused significant damage.
Repair and consolidation efforts are underway.
Abstract
In 2008 the LHC saw a series of injection tests with beam and the start of full beam commissioning. Initial beam commissioning went well and circulating beam was quickly established. Progress was unfortunately curtailed by the sector 34 incident which caused extensive damage. The causes of the incident are recalled and the status of repairs and consolidation measures are presented. The schedule and luminosity targets for the 2009 - 2010 run are discussed.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSuperconducting Materials and Applications · Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers · Nuclear and radioactivity studies