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30 TUE 1500-2300 Measurements and collisions at 3.5 TeV
30 TUE 2300-0700 Collisions at 3.5 TeV
31 WED 0700-1500 Collisions at 3.5 TeV- Test of End of Fill ADJUST mode
31 WED 1500-2300 Collisions at 3.5 TeV and Lumi scans
31 WED 2300-0300 Collisions at 3.5 TeV
1 TH 0700-1500 Chromaticity measurement along the ramp
1 TH 1500-2300 Squeeze test - beta beat measurement
1 TH 2300-0700 Collisions at 3.5 TeV
2 FRI 0700-1500 Feedbacks
2 FRI 1500-2300 Squeeze - second test / Beta Beat along the ramp - Beta* knobs
2 FRI 2300-0700 Collisions at 3.5 TeV
3 SAT 0700-1500 Collisions at 3.5 TeV - Polarity swap?
..And then Collisions, collisions, collisions...

Interesting points are the squeeze tests on Thursday/Friday afternoons, and the "Feedbacks" (what are these?) on Friday. Not a clue what Polarity swap refers to - some magnet somewhere?

Program for this week appears interesting.

Thursday and Friday night shift they're planning running @ 3.5TeV with squeezed, stable beams for physics

Saturday and Sunday night shift the plan is for high intensity stable beams at 450GeV

yep very cool. lets hope they can pull it off!

Danny252 said " and the "Feedbacks" (what are these?) "

Beam and bunch position sensed, deviations and corrections calculated and fed to appropriate magnet or RF system.

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/Accelconf/ ... tuzm02.pdf
General about accelerators and colliders, mentions LHC specifically for a bit at bottom of page 3.

I assume that since more information is now available after all the studies so far, the algorithms for the feedback computations need tweeking and testing.