| First turn: injection commissioning; threading, commissioning beam instrumentation. Ring 1, ring 2. | |
| Circulating pilot: establish circulating beam, closed orbit, tunes, RF capture, ... | |
| 450 GeV initial commissioning: system commissioning: instrumentation, beam dump,... | |
| Phase A.4 | 450 GeV optics: beta beating, dispersion, coupling, non-linear field quality, aperture,... |
| Phase A.5 | 450 GeV, increasing intensity: prepare the LHC for unsafe beam |
| Phase A.6 | 450 GeV, two beam operation |
| Phase A.7 | 450 GeV, collisions |
| Phase A.8 | Snap-back and ramp: single beam/two beams |
| Phase A.9 | Top energy checks |
| Phase A.10 | Top energy, collisions |
| Phase A.11 | Squeeze: Commission the betatron squeeze in all IP's |
| Phase A.12 | Beam commissioning with experimental magnets |