Seems like we might get collisions at 2.4 TeV this week … let’s see, maybe Wednesday!?
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New world record!
“Geneva, 30 November 2009. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world’s highest energy particle accelerator.” is the first line of CERN’s press release from this morning!
The picture is a screenshot from the LHC status webpage tonight at about quarter to one.
Accelerate …
… it does! Finally the LHC has proven to be an accelerator as well! Yesterday a beam has been accelerated from the initial 450 GeV to 540 GeV. We’re getting somewhere …
Also yesterday, the PS, one of the pre-stages of the LHC, had its 50 anniversary.
Serving and accelerating all kinds of beams since November 24th 1959.
The time has come …
Finally, ATLAS has seen first collisions today!
Here’s the first two offical illustrations of collision events in ATLAS.
There were events in the three other experiments as well …
Here’s the official CERN press release.
And round they go … [Update]
Beams are circulating in the LHC in both directions again …
[Update]
CMS announced crossed beams on Twitter!
They also give some updates on the beam status on webpage.