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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. 1.21 gigawatts? by Mekkah · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

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  2. Help! by Maximus633 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Help me Gordon! Help me! GORDON!

  3. Overclocked It by MrTripps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So they have overclocked the LHC? I hope they upgraded the stock heat sink and fan.

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  4. Re:Kdawson is the problem by pz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    Worst Slashdot editor, ever. There's no hope, other than to stop reading Slashdot when he's approving submissions.
     

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  5. Re:The press release is one week old by Ohrion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is this moderated Interesting? Funny at least I could understand.