Abstract
The paper presents a review of the average accelerator turnaround time in existing superconducting hadron machines (HERA at DESY@, RHIC at BNL§ and the TEVATRON at FNAL&). Based on the past experience with these previous hadron accelerators the paper aims at a best guess estimate for an initial and optimum turnaround time in the LHC during the first year of operation and for routine operation after the machine commissioning. @: Data on the operational experience with the HERA machine has been kindly made available by Bernhard Holzer from DESY. $: Data on the operational experience with the RHIC machine has been kindly made available by Wolfram Fischer from BNL. &: Data on the operational experience with the Tevatron machine has been kindly made available by Vladimir Shiltsev from FNAL and retrieved from the Tevatron operation Internet pages: http://www-bd.fnal.gov/pplot/index.html. We acknowledge the support of the European Community-Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP6 Structuring the European Research Area programme (CARE, contract number RII3-CT-2003-506395)
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