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LHC Start-UpFirst Beam
The CERN press release states 10h28 am this morning as the official time for the first LHC beam to make the full turn. Its a big success and the first step towards full operation of the LHC, I guess somewhat next year.
In parallel I was at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Berlin at one of four connected press conferences in Germany that offerer journalists to ask questions about the start-up e.g. to Prof. Dr. Rolf Heuer, the designated general director of CERN.
Also ATLAS made some first measurements with beam on. Some pictures/event displays are linked here:
Some press releases:
- Heise.de (German)
- Heise.de (German)
- Tagesschau.de (German)
- BBC News
- Zoomer.de (German, featuring me in a video sniplet)
First Citation
Another thing that happened today … the W-Mass paper I worked on along with Esben, Troels and others during my master studies got it’s first citation … woohoo!
Our paper: “Re-evaluation of the LHC potential for the measurement of mW.“
Cited in: “Strange, charm, and bottom flavors in CTEQ global analysis.” by Pavel M. Nadolsky
Weltmaschine.de
Just on time for the LHC start-up the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the German institutes working on the LHC and it’s experiments launched a new website called Weltmaschine.de (only German though).
It is another piece of an outreach campaign that started with the very successful LHC-Train that was cruising the S-Train ring in Berlin for the Long Night of Science in June.
The Grand Finale is an exhibition in the so far unused subway station Bundestag in the period from October 15th to November 16th.
O2 World Soft Opening
Just returned from todays Soft Opening of the O2 World in Berlin, the new home of the local hockey and basketball team, the Eisbären Berlin and ALBA Berlin, respectively.
One day before the official start-up this venue was tested by hosting a friendly between an O2 World OldStars team and a Gazprom Allstars team. The OldStars team partially consisting of former Einbären player and/or Eisbären officials lost in 5:0 game against the Russian selection.
The venue is quite nice, but could certainly need some improvements … e.g. in DJ Cool, the local music responsible!