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 beam was lost around 06:00 this morning, but was recovered fairly quickly. The beams are now circulating in their pipes but a collision in advance of the planned schedule is avoided by keeping them magnetically separated. The mood in the control centre is upbeat and excited although given the complexity of the task, it could be hours before a collision occurs.
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Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cern, the European Nuclear Research Organization, has scheduled its first collisions at 7 TeV, a record if it is achieved, for 30 March. Or, more precisely, it is scheduling the completion of the alignment process that it hopes will lead quickly to collisions, which are in part designed to find Higgs boson. The process popularly dubbed the hunt for the ”God particle” is expected to push the frontiers of our understanding of physics.
The speed at which Cern’s scientists will be able to create a collision is unknown.
Control room, LHC startup, Cern, November 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Large Hadron Collider at Geneva’s Cern (European Centre for Nuclear Research) has beat previously recorded energy levels by accelerating beams of particles to 1.18 TeV early 30 November. The previous record was 0.98 TeV.
Scientists at Cern are particularly happy about the results because they come only 10 days after the LHC was started up again after explosions one year ago caused serious and expensive damage.
