Speaker
Mike LAMONT
Description
The status of the ongoing LHC installation is described
with attention given to the long straight sections
around the experiments.
An overview of the proposed commissioning schedule
for 2007 and 2008 presented. This schedule includes a
calibration run at the end of 2007 which aims to deliver
collisions at 450 GeV beam energy. The details of this
run and planned beam conditions are summarised.
The full commissioning to 7 TeV will be a challenging
exerecise and an overview of the plans for 2008 is also
given.
Finally, the beam related issues associated with the
LHC upgrade are introduced.
