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Somebody knows when they start the LHC again to begin the full experiment? Some ppl say March 2008, some ppl say it will be later 2008/begin 2009?

Hello !

In my newspaper today, there was a complete article over the LHC in the "science section" and they stated that it will open in June

Duanra

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this link leads to the current schedule
http://sylvainw.home.cern.ch/sylvainw/planning-follow-up/Schedule.pdf
as u can see the first 7 TeV beam should be available mid may
the real question is, when will the detectors start to take data.

p.s.: everything is preliminary and CERN sustained some throwbacks in the last years.

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this link leads to the current schedule
http://sylvainw.home.cern.ch/sylvainw/planning-follow-up/Schedule.pdf
as u can see the first 7 TeV beam should be available mid may
the real question is, when will the detectors start to take data.

At least two of the detectors have taken data already:
ALiCE
CMS

(admittedly not from collisions yet...)

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At least two of the detectors have taken data already:
ALiCE
CMS

(admittedly not from collisions yet...)

Yes, almost every detector use cosmics for calibration. So even there is no beam you can test and check the detector. But there are some restrictions: cosmics mainly come down vertical, so you wont have tracks horizontal. The energy deposition is not much, it may be under threshold of some detector devices.

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