But still not kicking. The beam is on in both rings. The collision is what will bring some news, or not…
Posts Tagged ‘LHC’
CERN: LHC is alive
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008CERN: The second proton beam
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The second proton beam is on!
CERN: The beam is on!
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008The proton beam was injected and made 3 rounds in the 27km long ring of LHC at about 9:30 today.
The oposite beam will be shot in about half an hour!
LHC First Beam on Wednesday
Monday, September 8th, 2008The first beam in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be injected on the 10th of September at 9:30 Geneva time. Watch this event live on CERN’s webcast
Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN near Geneva
Monday, April 14th, 2008
If you think it is a “StarGate” on the above image you are almost right. To be precise, it is a part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at Point 5 on 27km ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (European Nuclear Research Center) near Geneva (Switzerland). The CMS detector is 12 500 tones superconductor solenoid capable of generating 4 Teslas magnetic field. It is located in Cessy (France) almost 100m underground. Hopefully this monster will detect Higgs boson when later this year LHC starts its operation.
On the above photo you may see a part of the tube consisting of superconducting electromagnets just before it enters the CMS detector where two beams of particles traveling at close to the speed of light with very high energies will collide.
Both photos were taken on Sunday the 13th of April 2008 during the visit of Point 5 in Cessy with Nokia N95 and posted with Wavelog.