
The peak instantaneous luminosity shown below exhibits a nice smooth increase:

With one inverse femtobarn of collisions at 8 TeV there is already as much discovery power for a 3-TeV q-qbar resonance as with the whole 2011 data at 7 TeV, because parton luminosities increase steeply with effective subprocess centre-of-mass energy, as shown in the figure below (taken from Chris Quigg's page):

Of course, though, we will have to wait until the analysis of this fresh new dataset is ready. Expect new groundbreaking measurements for the summer this year!
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