| DATE: |
2008-03-27 13:30 - 15:00 |
| PLACE: |
The meeting room on the 5th floor in Building No.3 |
| TITLE: |
Status, Schedule and Future of LHC |
| SPEAKER: |
Dr. Frank Zimmermann (CERN) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| ABSTRACT: |
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the world's next energy-frontier
machine, bringing into collision counter-rotating proton beams of about
3000 bunches each at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV with a design
luminosity of 1e34 /cm^2/s. About 25 years after its original
conception, the LHC will start beam operation later this year. At the
same time upgrade scenarios for the LHC and its injectors are being
finalized, which could boost the LHC luminosity by another order of
magnitude on the 10-15 years time scale.
After a brief overview of the LHC main features, this talk will report
on the progress of the LHC hardware commissioning, the further 2008
schedule including beam commissioning and first collisions, and the LHC
upgrade plans. |
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