Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Yesterday I was tidying up my office and I found something cute on my chalkboard: Do you see it...

With all the encouragement I give others to learn French before they, you know, move to France, I’ve forgotten to mention that you’ll often encounter appliances with German on them. I don’t know what they’re doing here in France, maybe they’re cheap. All I kn...

This Thanksgiving particle physicists have a lot to be thankful for, not the least of which have been the exciting progress with collisions at the LHC. Happy ATLAS Scientists, Image from the ATLAS press release...

This week has been particularly exciting for those at CERN and the collaborators. We’re back to circulating beams – which was where we left off last September. I anxiously await news about collisions and soon ramping up the energy. My...

A picture is worth 1000 words

Candidate Collision Event at CMS http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/performance/FirstBeam/cms-e-commentary09.htm http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/performance/FirstBeam/pictures221109/CollisionEvent.png It looks like we recorded a very good collision candidate event!! Enjoy!! Edgar Carrera (Boston University)

It has been a very exciting weekend with proton beams in the LHC day and night, but it was still only the warmup. Now we are eagerly awaiting the first collisions. Then we will really have begun the LHC era. But we are not just sitting and waiting for collisions...

There’s a decent amount of publicity out there about last night at CERN. From the New York Times, Proton Beams Are on Track at Collider: About 10 p.m. ...

Beam splash event. CMS detector side view It looks like tonight CMS will be the chosen experiment to press the red button...

CERN November 20, 2009 As you can see in the picture I took this morning, it is foggy here at CERN today as we await the first circulating beam of protons in the LHC since last year. When this will happen exactly is a little foggy as well...

I am the secondary on-call expert for the High Level Trigger system, therefore I am backing up the primary expert at P5. Everyone is so excited around here. We are waiting for the beams to reach P5. They will eventually circulate around the LHC ring and that will allow their alignment, etc...

The first beam of 2009 has passed through ATLAS! Follow the events at http://twitter.com/cern.

At this week’s Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, the CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron announced their newest results on the search for a standard-model Higgs boson. ...

I’m getting word there will be circulating beams as early as tomorrow evening – another LHC milestone! First collisions are not too far away after that. This image above is an almost-live updated image of the CMS control room – this is one of the two general-purpose detectors at CERN. (Se...