LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 19, 2010 @06:06AM from the do-not-look-directly-into-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.

Inovaovao writes "As announced on Twitter by the CMS experiment, the LHC has finally accelerated both beams to 3.5 TeV for the first time. It thus broke the previous energy record of 1.18 TeV it had set last fall, about a month since operations started again this year. It'll be a while yet before we see stable beams and collisions at 3.5 TeV. You won't get much of a clue to the timetable by reading the General Manager's pompous announcements. If you want to follow what's going on, look at the Status Ops."

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Re:The press release is one week old by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-19 06:37 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I've read it and I don't see what's supposed to be pompous about it. But well, this is slashdot and we all know how useless CERN is, because Fermilab is the bestest and will find the "God particle"...blahblah...jingoistic trash.