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LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV

Posted by kdawson on 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."

2 of 149 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The press release is one week old by kiehlster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, the press release came out today when they reach 3.5 TeV, which is when they actually breached the space-time continuum, thus sending their PR department back in time one week resulting in this back-dated press release.

  2. Re:How many Libraries of Congress by iprefermuffins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, are we talking TeV or TieV?