Tag: LHC

  • 2011 proton collisions come to an end

    2011 proton collisions come to an end

    At about half-past five in the evening on Sunday, 30th October, an e-mail from Run Coordination to the CMS collaboration said: At 17:00 today the LHC dumped the last proton beams for the year to start the machine development period and to prepare for the ion running.

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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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  • A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History?

    A few years ago, celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking was widely reported in the press to have placed a provocative public bet that the LHC (along with all particle accelerators that preceded it) would never find the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” believed responsible for having imbued massive particles with their mass when the…

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  • CMS running with 1236 bunches

    CMS running with 1236 bunches

    CMS is now running with 1236 bunches of protons !

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  • CMS luminosity exceeds all expectations

    CMS luminosity exceeds all expectations

    This year’s LHC physics run started in March.

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  • First Tracks with the real LHC beams

    First Tracks with the real LHC beams

    TOB was turned ON today after LHC Opearation declared stable beams for a while.

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  • First LHC Beam1-Beam2 Collision events seen in the Tracker

    First LHC Beam1-Beam2 Collision events seen in the Tracker

    Only TOB was turned ON today after LHC Opearation declared stable beams for a while.

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