1. LHC schedule

2. Installation activities in a sector
QRL installation
QRL consolidation after pressure test
Cryo-magnet transport
Interconnection phase 1
LSS installation
End of 1st interconnect activity
Pressure test
Cryostat closure – Interconnect consolidation
Insulation // Interconnect phase 1
Beam pipes & bake-out
ELQA at warm
Cool-down
Power tests
Machine check-out
Beam at 450 GeV/C

4. Press release June 23
First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will happen in November 2007, said LHC project leader Lyn Evans at the 137th meeting of the CERN[1] Council held in Geneva today. A two month run in 2007, with beams colliding at an energy of 0.9 TeV will allow the LHC accelerator and detector teams to run-in their equipment ready for a full 14 TeV energy run to start in Spring 2008.
The schedule announced today ensures the fastest route to a high-energy physics run with substantial quantities of data in 2008, while optimising the commissioning schedules for both the accelerator and the detectors that will study its particle collisions. It foresees closing the LHC’s 27 km ring in August 2007 for equipment commissioning. Two months of running, starting in November 2007, will allow the accelerator and detector teams to test their equipment with low-energy beams.
After a winter shutdown in which commissioning will continue without beam, the high-energy run will begin. Data collection will continue until a pre-determined amount of data has been accumulated, allowing the experimental collaborations to announce their first results.

5. Operations Activity

6. Machine checkout and later
Oct
Operations testing
Minimum
HWC
Nov
Full Machine Checkout
(TI8 & TI2, Access, Vacuum, Equipment Tests, Cycle and Set, BIC and INB)
Beam Commissioning to 450GeV
16days estimated, 60%efficiency assumed
Dec
Engineering run (Collisions at 450GeV + Ramp Commissioning)
Minimum
HWC

7. Hardware Commissioning
Calibration run in 2007
Installation
Hardware Commissioning
450GeV
Engineering Run
Shutdown
Machine checkout
450GeV
Beam commissioning
Calibration run 450GeV Kb 43
156
ib (1010) 2 4 10
* (m) 18 6
intensity per beam
beam energy (MJ)
.06
.12
.45
1.1
luminosity
1028
3 1030
event rate 1 (kHz)
0.4 5 19
120
W rate 2 (per 24h)
0.5 21
130
Z rate 3 (per 24h)
0.05
0.6 13
Assuming 450GeV inelastic cross section 40mb
Assuming 450GeV cross section W → lν 0.5nb
Assuming 450GeV cross section Z → ll 50pb

8. Staged commissioning plan for protons@7TeV
2008
Stage I II
III
Hardware commissioning
7TeV
Machine checkout
Beam commissioning
43 bunch operation
75ns ops
25ns ops I
Shutdown
No beam
Beam
2009
III
Shutdown
Machine checkout
7TeV
Beam setup
25ns ops I
Install Phase II and MKB
No beam
Beam

9. Issues LTC on July 5th will deal with Anything else ?
Optics (Stephane)
Dynamic aperture (Massimo)
Collimators (Ralph)
Beam dump (Brennan)
Operation (Mike)
Anything else ?
Detecting collisions
How long is 450GeV collisions useful for the experiments?
Assuming we make the 2007 run, what about 2008?
What if we don’t make the 2007 run?