Time has come! We finally saw the first events at 7 TeV centre of mass energy … more will come!
Here’s an event display of one of the first events recorded in ATLAS today.
[Update Mar 30th]Euphoria is slowly settling now, after the first successful LHC fill with collisions at 7 TeV has ended. The press has left Zeuthen already a while ago and the inauguration of our little control room ended with trays of empty champagne bottles … seems like a pretty successful day![Update]
Seems like the re-start of the LHC will be celebrated with a little press conference in our new remote control room at DESY in Zeuthen next Tuesday … which I will join, of course ;)
Let’s see what’s going to happen …
[Update Mar 28th] CERN has set up a Live Webcast from 8h30 to 18h15 on Tuesday! [Update]
Today CERN officially announced March 30th 2010 as the date for first 7 TeV proton-proton collisions in the LHC! Bit sad though that I am sitting here writing my thesis … but time will come!
The CERN press release can be found here.
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 …
Steadily going back to business … today the LHC had the beams up to 1.18 TeV each, apparently with some collisions!
