Protons have orbited the LHC!

by

The beam went three times around the LHC ring: see CMS’s e-commentary and CERN’s twitter.  This is the milestone that was a big media event last year (September 10, 2008).

Update: now it’s 500 times around the ring (about 0.05 seconds).  Last year’s record was about 9 minutes of continuous beam.

Update: up to 9 seconds, 30 seconds (50k events seen by CMS)…

Update: and now a beam in the other direction has made a full orbit.  (All you gotta do is smack ’em together!)

Update (Nov 21): on Saturday, we got hours of stable beam (single beams, not colliding).  This has never been done before with the LHC: from here on, it’s all new territory.  Now I’ve got to get to work on the offline data, which should be great for detector alignment…

4 Responses to “Protons have orbited the LHC!”

  1. Interesting links for week ending November 21st | Interesting Things Says:

    […] Protons have orbited the LHC! […]

  2. Anonymous Says:

    for orbits must study some equations

  3. Anonymous Says:

    also for orbit equations are implies some equations of Kepler observed prof dr mircea orasanu and prof drd horia orasanu and followed

  4. prof dr mircea orasanu Says:

    also for orbit equations are implies some equations of Kepler observed prof dr mircea orasanu and prof drd horia orasanu and followed that thus are obtained important results

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s


%d bloggers like this: