Yesterday we’ve been to the vernissage fo the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” exhibition in the Museum für Naturkunde (Museum for Natural History) in Berlin. Until January 24th 2010 the musuem will host the best of about forty thousand shots send in to the content organised by the London Museum for Natural History and the BBC Wildlife Magazine.
It’s worth a visit and almost costs nothing … and you can see the rest of this very nice musuem as well …
Seems like we might get collisions at 2.4 TeV this week … let’s see, maybe Wednesday!?
“Geneva, 30 November 2009. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world’s highest energy particle accelerator.” is the first line of CERN’s press release from this morning!
The picture is a screenshot from the LHC status webpage tonight at about quarter to one.
… 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.
