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I don't have any inside info and the planning meetings are restricted access now, but I understand that the plan is to keep stepping up bunches until they reach about 1380 using 50ns. There has not been much info about how all the MD tests will affect that plan. It was noticed that they tried out hi...

There is an excellent new page with data on all the fills

https://lhc-statistics.web.cern.ch/LHC-Statistics/

Use the "Fill Summaries" tab to get all this years fills.

(comparing with my notes I think that 1745 and 1715 are missing)

It looked like CMS were also tuning theirs up a little. Obviously its all being done very scientifically

The luminosities of ATLAS and CMS seem to be slowly getting closer. Now they are only about 5% different.

With 768 bunches peak luminosity is now over 900/ub/s in ATLAS and 830/ub/s in CMS. The next step should take them beyond the 1000/ub/s target luminosity wanted for this year, but that will probably be after the next technical stop. Present scheme has 700 colliding bunches. This will be doubled if t...

I was watching closely and it reached 737 for ATLAS and 660 for CMS, whichever is correct its a nice step up.

The 624 bunch filling scheme looks much more favourable for ATLAS and CMS with 598 collisions per turn vs only 424 in the 480 bunch scheme. Based on the 535/μb/s record from yesterday this implies a possible 535*598/424 = 750/μb/s

Looks like they got the 72 bunch injection right this time. They will probably want to try it at 480 bunches before going up to 624 (?) bunches.

Report on the success of the scrubbing runs and subsequent records at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1345739

I was hoping for 500/ub/s easily with 480. Intensity could be higher. Perhaps the next fill will be better.

Going up in 144 bunch steps is good.

yes! 380/ub/s for ATLAS with 336 bunches and a good long run now in progress

So have they dediced to run the rest of the year at 50ns? Also does any know know how sucsesfull they were at cleaing the beam pipes during the scrubing run? They did a lot less scrubbing than I expected but now they are doing a physics run with 228 bunches at 50ns. This could be just a test to obs...

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Amazing - the longer it runs, the more fuel efficient LHC is

Using the converse analysis I am now setting up my car to search for the Higgs. I expect to find it by this afternoon.

scrubbing plans at https://lhc-beam-operation-committee.we ... -2011.html

Yeah, I think NASA has something in the works too, I wonder if its related.

The technical stop ends Thursday morning. They should start the scrubbing runs but a few days ago it was not clear if the injectors were ready. This may have been answered at the LMC meeting this afternoon but these meetings are not public anymore :( Perhaps a kind insider could fill us in. If they ...