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Hier ein kleiner Auszug aus der LHC-Homepage zur Inbetriebnahme in den nächsten Monaten.

End of June: The LHC is expected to be cooled down. The experiments are requested to have their beam pipes baked out.
Middle of July: The experimental caverns will be closed after the caverns and tunnel have been patrolled. From then on the controlled access system will be fully activated.
End of July: First particles may be injected, and the commissioning with beams and collisions will start.
It is expected that it will take about 2 months to have first collisions at 10 TeV.
Energy of the 2008 run: Agreed to be 10 TeV. The machine considers this to be a safe setting to optimize up-time of the machine until the winter shut-down (starting likely around end of November). Therefore, simulations can now start for 10 TeV.
The winter shut-down will then be used to commissioning and train the magnets up to full current, such that the 2009 run will start at the full 14 TeV design energy.