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LHC Programme Coordination

LHC Programme Coordinator (LPC) :	Christopher Young (CERN / EP)
Deputy :	Chiara Zampolli (CERN / EP)

LHC Luminosity Plots (tables)

LHC luminosity plots

pp	2025	2024	2023	2022		2018	2017	2016	2015		2012	2011	2010
Ions	2024	2023	2022		2018	2017	2016	2015		2013	2011	2010

LHC Schedule: 2025 2026 (EDMS Archive)

Injectors schedule 2025

LHC planning spreadsheet 2025

LHC Machine Coordination webpage

Intensity Ramp Up 2025

Special Run Configurations 2025 (pp VdM)

Special Run Configurations 2025 (p-O, O-O, Ne-Ne)

Heavy Ion (Lead Lead) configuration 2025

2024 Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop

Chamonix 2025 LHC Performance Workshop

LumiDays 2025 Workshop

CERN

Contacts	Email : LPC-coordinators@cern.ch LPC Phone: 79977 LHC Operations (CCC): 77600 Technical Infrastructure Desk (CCC): 72201
LPC Meetings	For Indico pages see here. For minutes and summaries see here
Filling Schemes	Fill – Scheme association Filling Scheme Editor Filling Scheme repository Filling Scheme Viewer (before 2024) Filling Scheme Overview (before 2024) Download of Java scheme viewer attaching to LHC database Webservice to retrieve the filling scheme for a given fill.
LPC Tools	Performance plots Simple Lumi Calculator Integrated Lumi / Fill-length estimator (NEW, including beta* leveling) Ion Sharer Scheduling Toy Tool Annotated Fill Table Massi-File versioning information
Archive	Various Run 2 "reference" filling schemes for comparison Filling Scheme Candidates for the 2017 ramp-up Intensity Ramp Up 2022 Intensity Ramp Up 2024 Heavy Ion (Proton Lead) configuration 2016 Heavy Ion (Lead Lead) configuration 2018 Heavy Ion (Lead Lead) configuration 2022 Heavy Ion (Lead Lead) configuration 2023 Heavy Ion and pp reference run configuration 2024 Important LHC commissioning steps 2016 Important LHC commissioning steps 2017 Important LHC commissioning steps 2018 Important LHC commissioning steps 2022 LHC planning spreadsheet (2017) LHC planning spreadsheet (2018) LHC planning spreadsheet (2022) LHC planning spreadsheet (2023) LHC planning spreadsheet (2024) Special run configurations 2017 Special run configurations 2018 Special run configurations 2022 Special run configurations 2023 Special run configurations 2024
LHC Live Info	LHC Statistics Page LHC Morning Meetings LHC status vistars: Page1, Coordination, Operation, Dashboard Logging database (timber - CERN network only) Logbook
Reference Info	Massi file Definition Intensity Ramp-ups: policies LHCb polarity flip procedure Machine Development Coordination LHC Machine Committee (LMC) (Indico) Performance Notes DIP data Wiki (CERN network only) Luminosity Calibration (Run 1 information and references) Experiments' background definition for Run 2 from LBS Meeting LPC Mandate Previous LPCs
LHC Panels and Working Groups	LHC Beam Operation Committee: LBOC LHC Studies Working Group: LSWG LHC Background and Beam Conditions: LBS Machine Protection Panel: MPP Tunnel Region Experiments: TREX LHC Luminosity Calibration and Monitoring Working Group: LCMWG (meetings in the LPC Indico area)
LHC layouts and nomenclature	LHC Integration, Insertion Regions in CDD, LHC geometry Transfer lines: TI8 in CDD, TI2 in CDD BLM names, BPM timber mapping file
Magnets of experiments	Short notes: CMS solenoid, LHCb dipole, ATLAS solenoid+toroids, ALICE solenoid and dipole Publications: ATLAS ref1, ref2 Effect on beams: LHC-OP, LHCCWG 36 & 42, Cham XV, LPN419, IR8 conventions, Cham 2011
Other links	LHCC (Indico pages here), LPCC Evian 2015, Evian 2016, Evian 2017, Evian 2019, Evian 2021 2022 Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop 2023 Joint Accelerator Performance Workshop Chamonix 2014, Chamonix 2016, Chamonix 2018, Chamonix 2021 Chamonix 2023 Chamonix 2024
Injector complex	SPS user pages, SPS Status: Page1
Experiments	ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, LHCf, TOTEM, MoEDAL, FASER, SND

EXPERIMENT CONTACTS:

ROLE	ALICE	ATLAS	CMS	LHCb	LHCf	FASER	SND
Run Coordinator	Robert Munzer	Andrej Gorisek	Filip Moortgat Giulia Negro	Paula Collins	Lorenzo Bonechi	Jamie Boyd	Gerardo Vasquez
Deputy	Silvia Pisano	Eric Torrence	Archie Sharma	Rosen Matev Flavio Pisani

MISCELLANEOUS

LHC Literature/Documentation:	Links:
LHC-Experiments specifications	Acronyms and definitions in the LHC design report (p 7ff) , Handshake , Beam Modes , DIP data exchange (old)
LHC Performance Notes	in CDS
LHC Filling schemes	LPN415 , EDMS doc , LPN323 , LPN401
Timing, RF, definitions, bunch numerology	RF-TTC FAQ
Overall strategy for early luminosity operation with protons	EDMS doc
LHC Design Report	vol. 1 "Main Ring"
LHC Access System	EDMS node
LHC layouts around experiments	in CDD
TED dose/rate simulation (cern-tis-2003-013-rp-tn)	in EDMS
Beam Energy measurement/uncertainty	J. Wenninger talk at LPCC/LHC Top WG , Paper ( bibtex reference )
LHC-Experiments workshops:	Links:
LHC Lumi Days	2011, 2012, 2019

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