2022 Operation

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Tue Apr 26, 2022 3:27 pm

Tau wrote:
Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:21 am
I used to have access to these, but it seems to be blocked. Is this a change of policy that "fans of LHC" can't look in the logbooks anymore? I had so much fun reading these...
Are you in the egroup invited-OP-elogbook-users? Access might have been lost in the move to the new logbook system. Might be worth sending an email.

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by M. » Tue Apr 26, 2022 11:28 pm

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First beam squeezed to 30cm!

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:39 pm

ATLAS news article on today's beam splashes: https://atlas.cern/updates/news/Run3-beams-splash

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by Tau » Sat May 07, 2022 11:39 pm

Are you in the egroup invited-OP-elogbook-users? Access might have been lost in the move to the new logbook system. Might be worth sending an email.
Yes, I think I was. Let's give it a try.
I know a few people got kicked out because somebody started calling up all these people, so I can't blame them.
We'll see.
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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Tue May 24, 2022 8:46 am

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by M. » Wed May 25, 2022 10:37 am

Now fingers crossed for Stable Beams @ 450 GeV on Friday - hopefully with less questionable collisions in IP8 (there was no reliable luminosity signal for IP8 on Wednesday, neither from the BRANs on machine side, nor from LHCb)

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Wed May 25, 2022 11:47 am

Yeah we're commissioning a brand new detector (without a hardware trigger) at LHCb. I guess the new lumi monitor (PLUME) isn't ready yet.

First 6.8 TeV stable beams currently scheduled for 5th July (along with a media event, I believe?).

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by M. » Thu May 26, 2022 10:01 am

Yes, there will surely be a big media event - by coincidence (or not quite...), the 10th anniversary of the Higgs discovery also falls into the same time period.

And the nominal bunches just made it up the ramp to 6.8 TeV!
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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by M. » Fri May 27, 2022 11:21 am

Stable Beams at 450 GeV!

Also, this times all 4 IPs are really colliding, with LHCb measuring a luminosity signal for the first time with the all-renovated detector!
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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Tue May 31, 2022 8:34 am

Test collisions with VDM cycle at 6.8 TeV (2 bunches / beam)
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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by jmc2000 » Thu Jun 16, 2022 1:36 am

150th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1156732/

Longer than expected sector 23 training, issue with RF cryogenics and LHCb VELO readiness led to a shift of the schedule of 2.5 weeks: first “official” stable beams on July 5th

Injector beams are in good shape for LHC operation over the summer.

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:27 am

It's the day of the media event!

Here's the YouTube live stream link (starts 16:00 CERN time)

... and we start the day off with 7 magnet quenches (6 dipoles and a quadrupole) :o

First estimate for cryo recovery is 15:00. The plan was to have beams in "adjust" by 13:00.
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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by M. » Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:16 am

That was definitely not the best moment to get a training quench, but we all know Murphy's law.
In the end, while we used up all the contingency, all went fine. Collisions, Stable Beams, followed by a nice ~8h fill with 3x3 bunches.

LHC is back in physics!

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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by dukwon » Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:53 am

Some photos from the CCC yesterday. Felt great to be so close to the action


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Re: 2022 Operation

Post by trobbins » Fri Jul 22, 2022 7:18 am

Feedback from reddit is that there are a few ad-hoc sectors showing higher than expected e-cloud losses, and although scrubbing is having some effect it is not improving as rapidly as hoped.

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