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Beam is Back! The LHC Restarts

Posted October 28, 2009 10:06 AM

From Discover Magazine | rsslist:

This past weekend saw the first beam particles in the LHC since the magnet quench incident of September 2008. Protons and lead ions were threaded in two directions around part of the ring before being dumped, and everything worked without a hitch. The graphs show the ion beam spot entering Collision Point 2 before being dumped.

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Re: Beam is Back! The LHC Restarts

10/28/2009 10:34 AM

Woo-hoo!

Glad it's back.

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Re: Beam is Back! The LHC Restarts

10/29/2009 6:56 PM

Watch out for time travellers!

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