After last night’s successful restart of the LHC also the German media restarted on this issue …
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The giant awakes …
… 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.
Weired physics
I almost forgot to give a little update on new things happening in my field … Holger B. Nielsen is back with some new/updated theories!
He made it into the NY Times and to Tagessschau.de
WIN’09 in Perugia

It’s Sunday and it’s five in the morning. The alarm goes off.
Yeah right, that was the start of my day … and got better. I had a guy sitting next to me o the plane, that seemed to be of pure garlic!? Dunno … I kinda like garlic, but this guy was pushing it. To round off the two hour flight experience I had a group of young(ish) school kids/teens sitting behind me, talking sh** during the whole flight … hmm perfect.
Arriving in Rome I was allowed to witness the most inefficient airport shuttle ever, finally bringing me from Ciampino to the central station, where I had to walk my heels off to get to the station toilet.
Anyways … after this I actually managed to have a short walk around the city, see the Colosseum and some other parts of the Roman Forum. Unfortunately it was raining a bit and I had only three hours time before I had to catch my train.
Arriving in Perugia I was drawn back into the rhythm the day started by the absence of the shuttle bus that was supposed to pick me up and the fact that I had to find and try four public payphones to finally have one that would not say that I am not allowed to pay with coins in the moment …
Shift marathon
After my first lecture and hands on sessions on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, I am about to start my validation shift for Pixel DAQ in a few minutes (15-23h). I had another training shift yesterday evening (15-23h) and will have my first three Pixel DAQ shifts for this year in the following three nights (23-7h) … and then I am dead I guess ;) … and on my way back to Berlin!