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3.5 TeV World Record

Time for another world record!
The machine is fully awake now and this night for the first time ever accelerated two circulating beams to 3.5 TeV each. CERN immediatly released a press release this noon to share this achievement … it’s certainly getting exciting now …

Up in the Air

was this weekend’s movie of choice!
And it turned out to be quite a good choice. Though it had it’s downs especially in the last five minutes, it was a nice and entertaining movie.
Good old George Clooney and Vera Farmiga did their part to make it a movie certainly worth seeing!

Back in business

I almost forgot … after about two months of hibernation the ATLAS Detector is back in business waiting for the LHC to come up, meanwhile entertained with cosmics data taking. The big ring will probably start up somewhat next week …