GenevaLunch » LHC http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Cern takes foot off the protons-protons pedal http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/cern-takes-foot-off-the-protons-protons-pedal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/cern-takes-foot-off-the-protons-protons-pedal/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:14:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63050 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ended its 180-day 2011 proton run programme on the LHC (Large Hadron Collidor), Sunday evening 30 October. The proton-proton collisions have been providing data for research programmes. The Geneva-based organization is now preparing the LHC for four weeks of lead-ion running, “but in a new development [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/cern-takes-foot-off-the-protons-protons-pedal/feed/ 0 Cern passes the 1 inverse femtobarn mark in runup to summer conferences http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/17/cern-passes-the-1-inverse-femtobarn-mark-in-runup-to-summer-conferences/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/17/cern-passes-the-1-inverse-femtobarn-mark-in-runup-to-summer-conferences/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:36:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58910 GenevaLunch.com GENEVALUNCH – The race is on at Cern, the European Nuclear Research Centre in Geneva, to complete results on a number of experiments in time for the physics world’s major summer conferences, and Friday 17 June a landmark was reached that is encouraging researchers. “Today at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/17/cern-passes-the-1-inverse-femtobarn-mark-in-runup-to-summer-conferences/feed/ 2 Cern loves 1,000: new LHC record, and antimatter caught for 1,000 seconds http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/cern-loves-1000-new-lhc-record-and-antimatter-caught-for-1000-seconds/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/cern-loves-1000-new-lhc-record-and-antimatter-caught-for-1000-seconds/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:42:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58509 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It’s been a busy and record-breaking week at Cern, the European Nuclear Research Centre on the French-Swiss border, with LHC (Large Hadron Collider) researchers achieving a significant milestone and elusive antimatter held for 1,000 seconds for the first time. Trapping antimatter for longer opens new research vistas “The Alpha experiment at Cern [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/cern-loves-1000-new-lhc-record-and-antimatter-caught-for-1000-seconds/feed/ 6 Quenching jets at Cern’s LHC http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/26/quenching-jets-at-cerns-lhc/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/26/quenching-jets-at-cerns-lhc/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:51:25 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=50417 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The high-energy collisions at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are creating conditions that allow scientists to observe the resulting jets, or streams of quarks and gluons, careening away from the point of collision. The collisions recreate the conditions just instants after the Big Bang, particle physicists’ term for the creation of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/26/quenching-jets-at-cerns-lhc/feed/ 0 Cern’s LHC smashes lead ions in Big Bang simulation http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/08/cerns-lhc-smashes-lead-ions-in-big-bang-simulation/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/08/cerns-lhc-smashes-lead-ions-in-big-bang-simulation/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:47:58 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=49613 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully made the transition to collisions using lead ions, instead of lighter protons, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Cern, announced 8 November. The collision of the much heavier lead ion particles resulted in temperatures a million times hotter than those at the centre of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/08/cerns-lhc-smashes-lead-ions-in-big-bang-simulation/feed/ 3 Cern trims 5-yr budget by CHF343m, LHC cuts avoided http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/17/cern-trims-5-yr-budget-by-chf343m-lhc-cuts-avoided/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/17/cern-trims-5-yr-budget-by-chf343m-lhc-cuts-avoided/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=47221 GenevaLunch.com Other programmes will be slowed down to accommodate cost cuts, no Cern accelerators to run in 2012 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will continue to operate at its current budget level, but several other programmes will be slowed at Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in order to save CHF343 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/17/cern-trims-5-yr-budget-by-chf343m-lhc-cuts-avoided/feed/ 0 Cern’s LHC stars at nuclear physics jamboree (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/26/cerns-lhc-stars-at-nuclear-physics-jamboree/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/26/cerns-lhc-stars-at-nuclear-physics-jamboree/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:10:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45141 GenevaLunch.com Update 27 July  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Cern’s LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is starring at ICHEP, the world’s largest international conference on particle physics, which opens in Paris Monday 26 July. More than 1,00o scientists are attending. Four spokespersons for the LHC’s four main experiments, Alice, Atlas, CMS and LHCb, are presenting data at the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/26/cerns-lhc-stars-at-nuclear-physics-jamboree/feed/ 0 Swiss sports: Lausanne Hockey Club clears decks http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/26/swiss-sports-lausanne-hockey-club-clears-decks/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/26/swiss-sports-lausanne-hockey-club-clears-decks/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=40836 GenevaLunch.com GE Servette organizes celebration to thank fans after its dreams of national title fade Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The LHC (Lausanne Hockey Club) will have a fresh look Tuesday, with a totally new board lineup after Canadian owner Barry Alter fired the entire board and the club’s general manager, Gérard Scheidegger. The new board has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/26/swiss-sports-lausanne-hockey-club-clears-decks/feed/ 0 Bang! Collision at Cern makes physicists very happy http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/30/bang-collision-at-cern-makes-physicists-very-happy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/30/bang-collision-at-cern-makes-physicists-very-happy/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:35:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39401 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at 13:06 Swiss time Tuesday 30 March, a successful physics breakthrough after 20 years of preparatory work that marks “the start of the LHC research programme,” notes Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in a press release. “Particle physicists [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/30/bang-collision-at-cern-makes-physicists-very-happy/feed/ 1 LHC First Physics day in Geneva: watch it live! http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/30/lhc-first-physics-day-in-geneva-watch-it-live/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/30/lhc-first-physics-day-in-geneva-watch-it-live/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:00:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39380 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -  “Ready for collision” said the screen at Cern (European Nuclear Research Organization) shortly after 08:30. The first attempt at 7 TeV collisions of two 3.5 TeV beams, about three to four times the collisions currently done at the Fermilab in the US, is expected to occur around 10:30 this morning. A [...]

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