{"id":660,"date":"2008-02-27T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-06-17T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T16:02:06","slug":"new-lhc-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"New LHC Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is a &#8220;CMS week&#8221; at CERN, and talks are available <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=28775\">here<\/a>.  The plenary talk discussing the LHC status <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/getFile.py\/access?contribId=0&#038;sessionId=11&#038;resId=1&#038;materialId=slides&#038;confId=28775\">has<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If all goes well the machine should be cold by 1 June, and protons could be injected by mid-June.  Use this information for laying out our schedule&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poking around the LHC website, lots of other information is available.  A draft general schedule from last week can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/lhc.web.cern.ch\/lhc\/icc\/icc2008-02\/foraz.pdf\">here<\/a>.  It has cooldown of the last sector (4-5) ending in mid-June, and powering tests on-going at several sectors until mid-August.  Plans from last year for commissioning the beam envision 30 days with beam to go from first injection to usable 7 TeV beams, with an estimate that this would take 60 calendar days.  So, most optimistically, it looks like mid-late October is the earliest that 7 TeV collisions could be happening, right around the date of the official inauguration: October 21.  More realistically, this may very well take until early 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is a &#8220;CMS week&#8221; at CERN, and talks are available here. The plenary talk discussing the LHC status has: If all goes well the machine should be cold by 1 June, and protons could be injected by mid-June. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}