Saturday 15th May One bunch 1 e11 per beam 09:57: start ramp Lifetime drops at start of ramp from > 25h to ~7h. Losses seen at momentum collimators ==> initial losses of uncaptured beam as expected. Strong emittance growth during the ramp, from the start onwards: 450 GeV 3.5 TeV B1, H: 3.2 ==> 8.8 micron B1, V: 2.6 ==> 5.4 micron B2, H: 3.9 ==> 10.3 micron B2, V: 3.4 ==> 8.2 micron 16-05-10 LHC status

Nominal bunch up ramp Losses started at around 1.8 TeV. First losses seen on beam 1. Lifetime drops steeply from ~40 h to 0.04 h. All losses at collimators in IR7 (betatron losses). Losses start to quiet down around 2.6 TeV. No losses of b1 above 3.3 TeV. Losses for b2 continuing all the way to 3.5 TeV, but at lower levels. Lost ~40% of beam during the ramp. Both beam 1 and beam 2 show similar overall intensity loss, even though loss peaks are not correlated in time. Minimum beam lifetime during ramp: ~0.03 hours Beam loss finally reappeared at 3.5 TeV for beam 2 (see below), after end of flat top adjustments. Lost another 30% of beam before being dumped by BPM software interlock. 16-05-10 LHC status

Nominal bunch up ramp Orbit well corrected at 3.5 TeV – a lot of history – will try and establish this as baseline for high energy RF - Philippe For the beam: Losses do not seem caused by the RF. At 3.5 TeV, fast scope and Bunch-Peak meas show ?quiet? situation and disagree with BQM. On the fast scope B2, probably saturation at the beginning of ramp, generating false satellite bunches For the BQM: At 3.5TeV, measurement is very noisy. Probably caused by the measurement itself as it is not confirmed by Bunch-Pk or fast scope. 16-05-10 LHC status

Out of bucket flash at start of ramp 16-05-10 LHC status

~35 Hz 16-05-10 LHC status

Qh instabilities saturate the BBQ (> ~ 1 mm amplitudes) 16-05-10 LHC status

Bunch length 16-05-10 LHC status

Lifetime up the ramp 16-05-10 LHC status

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Re-fill for physics 6 bunches of around 2 e10 per beam Orbit feedback behaved well 16-05-10 LHC status

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Bit slow getting establishing collisions Fill 1104 Bit slow getting establishing collisions RT orbit trims make it difficult to correct back to reference orbit without getting radical – had to get beam into collision by hand and then scan 16-05-10 LHC status

All rather boring thereafter Fill 1104 All rather boring thereafter 16-05-10 LHC status

Today 14:00 ish - end of fill Two test ramps Overnight - physics 30 mins single beam – CMS BG Two test ramps low intensity measure chromaticity clean up orbit high intensity new orbit octupoles Overnight - physics 16-05-10 LHC status