After the success of the LHC restart in late 2009, the machine had its first Technical Shutdown over the Christmas period, lasting until the end of February. This time was used fruitfully, both by the accelerator and by CMS (see the first CMS Times…
On 14th December, just 3 weeks after its restart, the LHC collided 1.18TeV beams of protons in CMS for the first time. During this first period more than 15000 2.36 TeV collision events were accumulated by CMS.
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