From the recent Advisory Committee of CERN Users (ACCU) meeting at CERN the performance of the LHC during the ongoing year has been discussed and—I am impressed—the LHC turns out to be perfectly on schedule and if the run continued as planned will deliver well over 100 /fb this year. I find it remarkable because there were a lot of discussion of machine issues and I was expecting worse, and because the curves below agree so well.
I need to talk to the person who wrote that ‘Monte Carlo’ or maybe we have to zoom in much closer to see the discrepancies?
LHC statistics as capture today shows the expected and true performance as shown in the figure above. This performance is reflected in the luminosity burn pictures per fill. The fills are quite close and we hope that our Storage Manager, which is running into some performance issues recently can keep up. As long as we can keep about 1 PB available for storage we are plenty fine, but as can be seen from the steep data taking rates it can happen very quickly.
As usual during the yearly running we are expecting the highest push in terms of data ingestion when our Heavy Ion colleagues will take over in the fall.