ACTION	No. OF BUNCHES/BEAM	TIME ESTIMATE (in shift)	COMMENT	Beam1	Beam2	GROUP	PERSON RESP	SLOT
LHCb switch off		till noon	ACCESS and recovery	OK	OK			THU M
Check with protons after access	protons	1 h	Calibrate BCTs	OK	OK	OP		THU M
			Injection of high intensity proton bunch	OK	OK
			Injection of low intensity proton bunch	OK	OK
			switch injector chain to ions	OK	OK
Injection and circulating beams	1 (non colliding)	1	Injection of Ions (to establish the reference orbit)	OK	OK	OP		THU A
			Rough BI check	OK	OK	BI	JJG
			Resteering of transfer lines (if needed)	OK	OK	ABT	BG
			RF capture (at -5 kHz frequency shift)	OK	OK	RF	PB
			check injection oscillation	OK	OK	OP
			check 450 GeV dump ok	OK	OK	ABT	BG
450 Z GeV commissioning (BI setup)	1 (non colliding)	0.5	Wire-scanner   for 1 beam	OK	OK	BI	JJG	THU N
			BGI				JJG	THU N
450 Z GeV optics checks with two beams	1 (non colliding)	0.5	beta-beating. >0.4 nominal bunch intensity	OK	OK	ABP	RT	THU N
Collimation	1 (non colliding)	1	Collimation check	OK	OK	COLL	SR, RA, DW	FRI M
			Loss maps	OK	OK
LBDS	1 (non colliding)	0.25	Asynchronous beam dump	OK	OK	ABT	BG	FRI A
Ramp	1 (non colliding)	1	Blowup off - TFB off - OFB on - QFB on - Collimators ramp if no issues at injection	OK	OK	OP, COLL	RA	FRI A
			Collimator check, NO squeeze, loss maps	OK	OK	OP, ABP	RT
			check 3.5 TeV dump ok	OK	OK	ABT	BG
RAMP and SQUEEZE	1 (non colliding)	0.5	Ramp THEN  squeeze, optics check	OK	OK	COLL	RA, DW, GV, GB	FRI N
LBDS	1 (non colliding)	0.25	Asynchronous beam dump	OK	OK	ABT	BG	FRI N
Setup for collisions	2 (colliding)	2	Squeeze, find collision, and transition to zero real crossing angle in ALICE, CMS & ATLAS. LHCb separated, squeezed.	OK!!	OK!!	OP		SAT M,A
			Collimation setup.	OK	OK	COLL	RA, RB, DW, MC, GB
Collimation	2 (colliding)	1	Loss maps	OK	OK	OP	GB	SAT N
LBDS	2 (colliding)	0.25	Asynchronous dump	OK	OK	ABT	BG	SUN M
First collisions + PHYSICS	2 colliding	1 or 2	Ramp with two beams, squeeze, checks, Stable beams.	OK!!	OK!!			SUN M
Increase intensity (1)	17	1 or 2	Increase bunch number to 17 (16 colliding in IP1,2,5 + 1 probe)	OK	OK
Increase intensity (1.5)	69	1	New scheme, 65 or 66 collisions/turn	OK	OK			WED A
Increase intensity (2)	121	1	Increase bunch number to 128	OK	OK
Physics	121		Parasitic measurements during physics (luminosity evolution, BFPP, etc,  ...) to test models and prepare future runs	OK	OK
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