LHC Commissioning Plan 2022
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LHC Commissioning Plan 2022 |
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This table is updated continuously. Dates in the future are likely to change. This table only contains the most important LHC commissioning steps which are relevant for the experiments. The main commissioning schedule is maintained by LHC experts and the link is available from the LPC Home Page.
| Date | Task | Details |
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| 13/04/2022 | TI2/TI8 Beam test | Beam will reach the TEDs in IP2 and IP8. |
| 22/04/2022 | First beam in LHC | First beam injected into the LHC. This will mean some splashes. First steps Injection, threading with splashes, first turn, RF capture B1&B2, closed orbit. |
| 27/04/2022 | Access | VIP visit in afternoon. Access to caverns possible |
| 28/04/2022 | Dedicated splashes | Splashes for ALICE, ATLAS, CMS. 40 splashes on each side for CMS, 25-30 splashes on each side for ATLAS with lowest possible intensity. 20-30 splashes on either side (TDI/TCT) for ALICE |
| 07/05/2022 | Dedicated splashes (backup) | Additional splashes for experiments |
| 10/05/2022 | TS for VELO installation | Planned start of VELO installation |
| 19/05/2022 | Restart of beam operations | End of VELO installation and pump-down |
| 27/05/2022 | 1st fill with 900 GeV SB | First round of collisions fills for detector commissioning |
| 02/06/2022 | Horizontal muons IP1 | Scraping of blown-up bunch at IP1 to produce horizontal muons for detector commissioning. About 1 hour per side |
| 03/06/2022 | 2nd fill with 900 GeV SB | Second set of collisions for detector commissioning |
| 13/06/2022 | 3rd fill with 900 GeV SB | Third set of collisions for detector commissioning |
| 04/06/2022 | Non-linearity measurements | ATLAS and CMS non-linearity measurements |
| 20/06/2022 | 4th fill with 900 GeV SB | Fourth set of collisions for detector commissioning |
| 23/06/2022 | RP alignment | Roman pot alignment including some RP data-taking at different beta* values (actual date TBD) |
| 24/06/2022 | Loss maps | Plan to do parasitic background measurements (actual date TBD) |
| 01/07/2022 | 4th fill with 900 GeV SB | Last fill of collisions for detector commissioning (actual date TBD). For sign-off before 13.6 TeV collisions |
| 05/07/2022 | First 13.6 TeV SB | First fill at Run 3 top energy. Media event planned. |