For the past several years, the CDF collaboration has been
upgrading its detector to accommodate the higher luminosity and beam energy
expected during Run II (2001-2006) at the Tevatron p anti-p collider.
Accelerator improvements include increasing the instantaneous luminosity by
an order of magnitude with respect to Run 1 to 2 x 1032 cm-2 s-1 and
increasing the center of mass energy from 1.8 TeV to 2.0 TeV. The detector
upgrades include replacing the entire tracking volume, extending the muon
coverage, adding a time of flight system, and improving the selection
capabilities of the trigger. The partially instrumented detector underwent
a commissioning run during September/October 2000 in preparation for
starting data taking in Spring 2001 with the full detector. Now that Run II
has been extended through 2006, we expect to collect an integrated
luminosity of 2 fb-1 during the first two years of running and up to a
total of 15 fb-1 by the end of Run II.
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Updated: Thursday, 2000 November 30 17:24:04 CST automatically from input from Carol Picciolo