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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by CharmQuark » Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:35 pm

woot :clap:
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by tomey36 » Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:17 am

they are going to try and brake into the 1e10 32-1 luminosity range this week. this was the ultimate goal they set out for this year, and since they still have the rest of october left for physics there is a good chance they will have a higher luminosty than that!

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by DCWhitworth » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:24 pm

It seems that while they are repairing the LHC someone has posted a picture onto Page1 ! :)
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by CharmQuark » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:59 pm

DCWhitworth wrote:It seems that while they are repairing the LHC someone has posted a picture onto Page1 ! :)
Saves looking at just the ACCESS NO BEAMS banner :clap: :)
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by josch222 » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:47 pm

Slides from a meeting about the recently observed vacuum effects:
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access ... fId=109986

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by josch222 » Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:10 am

Higher beam energy in 2011?

At the beginning of the technical stop in December there will be a meeting in Evian.
According to the linked document they plan to discuss higher beam energies between
3.5 and 4.5TeV.
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access ... fId=110511

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by josch222 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:38 am

Great, two really good runs in the last 24h!
They gathered approx. 8.8/pb so far and plan to dump at 14:00h, by then they will have surely collected 10/pb.

So they should get 50/pb till the end of proton physics even if there are a few problems.
If they would stay with 368 bunches and simply do fill after fill for physics they may reach
even 100/pb this year. I'm really curious if they go for higher intensities the next days.
I would simply do physics because they have to check many things again after the winter,
maybe there are some things they could commission for higher intensities in parallel.

Edit:
Here is the new schedule (on page 5):
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay ... fId=111336
In short: They will do further development (50ns) but they want at least 40/pb.

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by photino » Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:59 am

For your diaries: ;)

The latest LHC physics results will be presented at this conference:

Conference on LHC First Data
December 12-14, 2010
http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/LHC2010/prog.html

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by tomey36 » Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:23 pm

i wasnt expecting anything untill next year this is excting news :) while on the subject of exciting, it might be worth mentioning that they are going to push for 400 bunches tonight! good luck guys i hope all goes well ;)

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by CharmQuark » Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:39 pm

Good luck guys ;)
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by DCWhitworth » Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:57 pm

Yeah wow ! :D Things have been moving so fast recently. 400+ bunch fills, 32 bunch injections, record luminosities, I noticed a 2m squeeze in there somewhere. They're also talking about 50ns bunch trains and 4.5 TeV energies.

I look back and see where the machine was six months ago and it's been amazing progress. :clap:
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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Xymox » Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:14 am

Soon we will start colliding lead !!!

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by Kasuha » Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:12 am

Xymox wrote:Soon we will start colliding lead !!!
I wonder if they'll create some gold, too... :whistle:

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by tswsl1989 » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:16 pm

Hehe, Alchemy @ CERN :)

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Re: Current Events Discussion

Post by photino » Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:00 am

CMS Fireworks Live event display

http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/FireworksLive.html

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