LHC Report

During last week the commissioning effort has been devoted to beam development work, required to accelerate beams with nominal bunch intensity to 3.5 TeV.

Significant progress has been done with the commissioning of the systems required to control the beam size and bunch length during the ramp and accelerate the beam with reproducible characteristics. The setting-up of the collimation system for the operation with higher intensity is presently ongoing with the aim of delivering physics with nominal bunch intensity towards the end of next week.

For more information about the LHC and a video of the presentation recently done by LHC operators, please visit:

http://lpcc.web.cern.ch/LPCC/
http://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=2687

by CERN Bulletin