LARP/LHC%20Calendar

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LARP/LHC Calendar

• LARP in 2007
• Opening of LHC_at_FNAL
• Crystal collimation workshop March (at CERN)
• Full collaboration meeting April, LBL
• Beam-beam compensation workshop June (?), SLAC
• Deliver tune tracker, luminometer, Schottky
• Mini collaboration meeting October, FNAL

• LHC in 2007
• Injector machine studies March - November
• Last magnet lowered March
• LHC Tunnel closed August
• First beam in LHC November
• Collisions at 450 Gev November/December

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450 GeV Phases
Phase
1 First turn
2 Establish circulating beam
3 450 GeV initial
4a 450 GeV - consolidation
4b 450 GeV system commissioning
5a Two beam operations
5b Collisions
6 Increase intensity
S. Myers (CERN)
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Visits

• Visitors to FNAL
• E. Laface (CERN) Jan 29-31
• R de Maria (CERN) Feb 7 25
• Visits to CERN
• Schottky related
• Beam Commissioning ?
• LAFS ?

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IR and Beam-beam in 2007

• IR optics with magnets inside detector combined
  function magnets, other variants
• Nonlinear error correction of IR magnets
• Nonlinear chromaticity correction
• Beam-beam performance of different layouts
• Experimental test of wire compensation (RHIC ?)
• Beam-beam compensation simulation
• Investigate use of ODR for LHC beam imaging at IP