Phase A.2: Circulating Pilot and RF capture

450 GeV, pilot intensity

Description:

For both rings 1 and 2:

  • Establishing closed orbit

  • Commissioning of additional instrumentation: BPM intensity acquisition

  • Preliminary orbit, tune, coupling and chromaticity adjustments

  • Obtaining circulating beam (few thousand turns)

  • SPS-LHC energy matching

  • Commissioning of RF capture