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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."

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  1. Not pompous, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's pretty outrageous calling the Director General's web update pompous. Someone clearly has an axe to grind. His web page seemed like quite a reasonable summary for the time it was posted. Part of his job is to promote the value of the billions of Euros being spent on CERN.

  2. Kdawson is the problem by hexghost · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What I want to know is - when will kdawson not be such a tool?