The LHC is a discovery machine, so a large number of searches for new physics as well as measurements of known physics can take place at the same time.
The idea that it is a single-trick experiment is a misconception. Its a quantum statistical experiment where proton collisions at high energy yields random particles based on the probability of specific interactions taking place.
This is unnecessarily dismissive. Even the grants themselves will include a list of things they hope to discover or measure with this refresh; this is a perfectly reasonable question to ask.
Many old monitoring programs just literally generated graphs like these using input data and outputted a static image on a cron/tick. "Expensive" once, then cached... in the form of the image
And there used to be a very fancy LHC dasboard at http://meltronx.com/index.html
Unfortunately the site breaks with HTTPS and modern browsers (mixed content isn't allowed anymore, and they never updated it). It has to be http://.
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