It worked! Clockwise and anti-clockwise beams though the ring with minimal tweeking of the focus and steering parameters. Yay!
Category Archives: LHC
I hope we don’t find the Higgs
As I said yesterday, there are rumours that the Higgs particle may have already been spotted at the Tevatron thus rendering LHC at CERN a tad redundant, but what is the Higgs anyway? Basically the Higgs particle is the last particle predicted by the Standard Model. The Standard Model being the particle physics theory that …
Something in the air…
In another life I was a particle physicist, or rather I become an engineer involved in the ATLAS detector at the LHC Cern. Things change, projects carry on and I quit to blow things up with big lasers. One of the primary stated aims of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle before any …