General rule:

  • Supercycles start with SFTPRO and end with MD1 (to always preceded the next SFTPRO)
  • Any LHC cycle is always preceded with a ZERO

The most common SPS supercycles are the following:

Standard supercycles

  • NA_PHYS: SFTPRO1 - MD1 - SFTPRO1 - MD1

LHC supercycles

  • NA_PHYS_LHC1: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHC1 - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_LHC1_SPARE: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHCPILOT - ZEROx4 - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_LHC2: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHC2 - MD1 (|LHC2| = 13200 ms)
  • NA_PHYS_LHC2_SPARE: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHCPILOT - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_LHC3: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHC3 - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_LHC3_SPARE: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHC4 - 6x ZERO - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_LHC4: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHC4 - MD1 ( 1 inj)
  • NA_PHYS_LHC4_SPARE: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHCPILOT - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_LHCINDIV: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHCINDIV - MD1 (4 inj)
  • NA_PHYS_LHCINDIV_SPARE: SFTPRO1 - ZERO - LHCPILOT - 6x ZERO - MD1

Other physics supercycles

  • NA_PHYS_AWAKE: SFTPRO1 - AWAKE1 - MD1 - SFTPRO1 - AWAKE1 - MD1

  • NA_PHYS_HIRADMT: SFTPRO1 - HIRADMT1 - MD1 - SFTPRO1 - HIRADMT1 - MD1

  • NA_PHYS_HIRADMT2_HI: SFTPRO1 - HIRADMT2 - MD1 - SFTPRO1 - MD1 (high intensity)

  • NA_PHYS_HIRADMT2_LO: SFTPRO1 - HIRADMT2 - MD1 (low intensity)

Other MD supercycles

  • NA_PHYS_MD: SFTPRO1 - MD5 - SFTPRO1 - MD5
  • NA_PHYS_AWAKE_MD: SFTPRO1 - AWAKE1 - MD5 - SFTPRO1 - AWAKE1 - MD5
  • NA_PHYS_AWAKE_MD1: SFTPRO1 - AWAKE1 - MD5 - MD1 - SFTPRO1 - AWAKE1 - MD5 - MD1
  • NA_PHYS_SHIP: SFTPRO1 - SFTPRO3 - SFTPRO3 - SFTPRO3 - SFTPRO3 - MD1