… 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.
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.
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.
After last night’s successful restart of the LHC also the German media restarted on this issue …
Tagesschau
Heise
… and ATLAS has seen its first beam splash events. Or in other words beams are passing by the machine! Here’s a picture and an animation of two of the first events from last night …
Of course CERN has released an official press release on the restart of the LHC. They also offer a CERN twitter tweet now. For those you who care and know what it is. More footage (that will be kept updated) can be found on the ATLAS Event Display web page.
Just in case you don’t fully understand … this is quite exciting! At least for someone in the field of particle physics … and this is just the beginning (hopefully) … it’s gonna be great.
