CERN's LHC.

/r/ LHC detector pics. Extra internets for having people included for size comparisons.

>>3
hehehe...'hadrons'

Compressed from

zpinch.sandia.gov/Z/Images/z.jpg

Cerenkov Radiation.

>>4
i looked at that pun 3 different times at least a week apart before i got it. and it sucked. i hate you.

>>2
>>4

The sight of the LHC gives me a 'hadron', if you know what I mean.

What about this, then?

Ah - the good old rotten Reaganite times!

>>9

TRON <3

Latest on the LHC

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=0&sessionId=11&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=28775

>>11
So are they going to get to collidin' some of them large hadrons anytime soon? (or do they need some vc:hilp with it.)

At Peter Woit's blog we read that we shall see some low-power fireworks in late summer.

"Robert Aymar, the Director General of CERN, has announced that the LHC will operate when it starts up this year at an energy of 5 TeV per beam (10 TeV total center of mass energy), rather than the design energy of 7 TeV per beam. To operate the LHC magnets at the highest current and get to 7 TeV requires a time-consuming sequence of powering tests and quenches, so the decision was made to put this off until the winter shutdown. With this decision, the process of beam commissioning can start soon after all sectors have been cooled down, and this is now scheduled for mid-June. Beam commissioning should take two months, with first physics collisions thus scheduled for late summer."

>>12
Not if a filthy Hawaiian botanist has anything to say about it...

>>12

Lol. Gaussian force distribution..

>>14

US has no jurisdiction in Switzerland, But he's too stupid to realise that. Or merely jealousy on his part, that it wasn't built in America?

"Things have been going quite well recently at the LHC, with cooldown beginning now for the last two sectors of the ring, three sectors cool, and three cooling. The latest cooldown schedule is here: http://foraz.web.cern.ch/foraz/schedule.pdf , a report yesterday on progress here: http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/icc/icc2008-06/claudet.pdf. Sometime in July the beam commissioning process should begin, with the current plan to inject first particles in late July. About 2 months should be needed to get to first collisions at 10 TeV and the possibility of starting to take some data. The LHC has to have a winter shutdown so that the residents of Geneva don’t freeze to death, and that will start in late November."