LHC to shut down for a whole year

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LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by gneissrocks » Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:16 pm

Sorry if this is old news here but the BBC are reporting that the LHC will be shut down for a whole year. It will run at half power until 2011 when it will be shut down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by mrgumby » Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:24 am

Sob....

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by Kasuha » Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:53 pm

Yep, they need to shut it down and warm up to be able to do repairs/modifications which will allow them to go up to the design energy of 7 TeV per beam. It's been known since they did splice commissioning last year.

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by amiso » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:03 pm

At this point (october 23rd), does anyone knows what the plan is for the winter?

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by PhilG » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:42 am

On Nov 5th they stop proton physics and switch to heavy Ion physics. Then on 6th Dec they close down for the winter until February. There will be meetings in Evian and Chamonix to thrash out a plan for next year.

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by Harbles » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:03 pm

The Goal has been set at 1 inverse femtobarn before the major maintenance closure at end of 2012.
A fine overview of the situation http://blog.vixra.org/2010/10/25/lhc-back-with-gusto/

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by Stephen » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:08 am

PhilG wrote:On Nov 5th they stop proton physics and switch to heavy Ion physics. Then on 6th Dec they close down for the winter until February. There will be meetings in Evian and Chamonix to thrash out a plan for next year.
Do you know when a definite date for the heavy ion collisions would be available? Because from my understanding, November 6th is only the date when they start the necessary preparations.

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by PhilG » Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:26 am

The latest planning chart shows ion setup starting on 3rd, 4th or 5th of Novemeber depending on how quickly they can collect pp data. Ion physics is due to run from 11th November until 6th December. Obviously these dates can change depending on how things go.

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Re: LHC to shut down for a whole year

Post by amiso » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:43 pm

Harbles wrote:The Goal has been set at 1 inverse femtobarn before the major maintenance closure at end of 2012.
A fine overview of the situation http://blog.vixra.org/2010/10/25/lhc-back-with-gusto/
In short, this says that they might reevaluate the goals in December, but right now the plan is to operate more or less continuously for one more year at this energy, or slightly more energy, if possible (or safe).

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