LHC portal

Not sure which long-term schedule you're looking at, but Run 3 has been scheduled to start in 2021 since at least 2015

https://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/l ... g-term.htm

The schedule for LS2 (as of Chamonix 2018) is here:

For those unaware, ever since the start of Run 2 there has been an object lying on the bottom of the beam pipe in sector 81. It was detected in aperture scans and nicknamed the "Unidentified Lying Object" (ULO). There was some discussion here when it was first detected: http://www.lhcportal.com/Foru...

ATLAS physicists talk about data acquisition, processing and analysis to an audience of non-physicists. Much of what they say applies to other collider experiments, too.

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9851-conque ... at_the_lhc

Slides are available here:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/751857/timetable/

Diagram of the location and local rock types:

CERN press release:
https://home.cern/news/press-release/ac ... n-post-lhc

First night of LS2, violent thunderstorm caused extensive power cuts. The fire brigade had a busy night.

That's it. With the beam dump just now, we are done with Stable Beams for Run 2. Now we have some MDs overnight and Run 2 will be completely over at 6am.

I believe the absolute maximum beam energy is 255 Z GeV where Z is charge of the ion (atomic number for fully ionised nuclei). "Full energy" is 100 GeV per nucleon, but bear in mind Z/A < 1/2 for almost all nuclides.

Welcome!

For Run1+Run2

187 /fb for ATLAS
192 /fb for CMS
10 /fb for LHCb

The page shows a buggy number for ALICE unfortunately

https://acc-stats.web.cern.ch/acc-stats ... view-panel

(remember to filter by proton-proton and stable beams)

Run 2 delivered luminosity so far:

ATLAS: 150.29 fb^-1
ALICE: 60.96 pb^-1
CMS: 154.26 fb^-1
LHCb: 6.38 fb^-1