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Short news on LHC: The first collisions at the LHC in two weeks!
:: 18 September, 2008
According to information given from CERN, after the success of the first day of the LHC and the latest tests encouraging, the researchers expect the first collisions in two weeks.
As we saw during the broadcast video, the first day of the beam was perfectly place. However, no collision was then scheduled even if some events have been recorded in the detectors Atlas and CMS. When asked at that time on the date of first collisions, researchers, whose LHC project leader, Lyn Evans, remained elusive. This is no longer the case and a member of the Atlas collaboration has kindly inform us that the first collisions with beams of 450 GeV will be held within two weeks.
The energy will be available at 900 GeV, at what physicists call the centre of mass (in this case, it is the laboratory since it is the collision of two beams and not a beam single on a fixed target). This energy is lower than that regularly violate the Tevatron, those who still fear the emergence of mini black holes can sleep ...
However, except incident, a 10 TeV collisions will indeed take place this year, perhaps just before the official opening of Cern, which will take place on October 21 in the presence of the President of the Swiss Confederation Pascal Couchepin, and seven to eight other heads of state.
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