First Beams of 2010
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.
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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.
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.
On 23rd November the LHC collided 450 GeV beams of protons for the first time (see here) but only for a short period as a trial. The first real period of collisions started on 6th December.
Following the "splash" events of 6th/7th November (see here) the time has come to circulate the proton beams all around the LHC.
On the weekend of 6th & 7th November the LHC beam was injected and arrived near the CMS experiment, before being "stopped" by a large amount of material known as a "collimator".
Supersymmetry, or SUSY in short, is an exciting and beaut