Originally Posted by Marcos
The inside word is: Sometime in August, or worst case in September. We'll be running the final tests without beam at the end of July.
See slides 3 & 17:
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/acc...s&confId=33898
BTW - I took advantage of my LHC access privileges last week, and have some videos of what it's like down there at the moment. I'll put them on the web shortly