Record Breaking TeV @ LHC March 30, 2010

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The goal scheduled today is to attempt colliding protons at a whopping 7 TeV.

LHC First Physics Live Webcast --> http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/ <--

LHC Status Display --> http://lhc-webcast.web.cern.ch/lhc-webcast/cerninfos.swf/ <--

- New record TeV levels @ 3.57. ??:??:?? CST
- Currently being ramped down to inject new beams. 01:45:00 CST
- A "noise" was detected for 5 minutes and is being investigated [EPS Activated]. 01:50:00 CST
- Beam back in 20 minutes. Expecting 1.5 hours to collisions @ 7 TeV. 02:50:00 CST
- New analysis suggests the main SPS and LHC magnetic coupling circuits caused the issue. 2:55:00 CST
- Maintaining 450 GeV. 03:15:00 CST
- The probe beam injection commenced. 03:31:00 CST
- RAMP commenced. 03:50:00 CST
- 640 GeV and accelerating. 03:56:00 CST
- 1.0 TeV and accelerating. 04:01:00 CST/
- 1.5 TeV and accelerating. 04:09:00 CST\
- 2.0 TeV and accelerating. 04:15:00 CST/
- 2.5 TeV and accelerating. 04:22:00 CST\
- 3.0 TeV and accelerating. 04:30:00 CST/
- Approaching record level 3.57 TeV @ 3.47 TeV. 04:36:00 CST
- Approaching record level 3.57 TeV @ 3.50 TeV. 03:38:00 CST
- FLAT TOP "STABILIZATION" [Collapse Prep 3.50 TeV]. 04:39:00 CST
- Press Conference. 04:40:00 CST
- Beams successfully aligned. 05:00:00 CST
- Successful collision mode. 05:01:00 CST
- 40 collisions per sec. CERN expecting 40 million collisions. 05:40:00 CST
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Found this on-line : Geneva atom smasher sets collision record

GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher conducted its first experiments at conditions nearing those after the Big Bang, breaking its own record for high-energy collisions with proton beams crashing into each other Tuesday at three times more force than ever before.

In a milestone for the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider's ambitious bid to reveal details about theoretical particles and microforces, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, took high-tech photographs so they could study the disintegrating protons after they collided at a combined energy level of 7 trillion electron volts.

The collisions herald a new era for researchers working on the machine in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel below the Swiss-French border at Geneva.

"That's it! They've had a collision," said Oliver Buchmueller from Imperial College in London as people closely watched monitors.



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Um...everybody still here ? Or did anybody vanish in the sudden appearance of the prophecised side-effects ?
 
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