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Yep! First collisions of 2012 and first ever anywhere at 8 TeV. Now on to lumi scans and lossmaps. More prep over the weekend and Science by next week. The LHC is celebrating the start of the 2012 Science season they are having a Google plus On Air Hangout on Wednesday April 4 at 4:00 PM CERN time (...

Sixty Symbols Did a series on the LHC that's as close as I'll likely come to visiting CERN. Message from Geneva http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdRf3hXt4XA&list=UUvBqzzvUBLCs8Y7Axb-jZew&index=5&feature=plcp Neutrinos slower than light http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cezltcn9Mv0&list=UUvBqzzvUBLCs8Y7Ax...

The sound of shoes dropping, not sure if this is one or the other but I'm sure no one is too surprised.

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diarie ... gain-88060

An interesting look ahead to 2012 from the LHC Lumi Days 2012 series of talks.

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/search?f=490__a&p ... ays%202012

A very good article here in the Of Particular Significance Blog. http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/02/24/finally-an-opera-plot-that-makes-some-sense/ From the above. "As I suspected all along (and contrary to the original press reports), the OPERA experimenters do not claim to have found the cause o...

Big Big news to day. It was all a dream. Well would you believe a faulty fibre optic connector? How about a 'problem' with an oscillator? There is supposed to be a press statement issued on Thursday. http://www.globalnews.ca/world/world/european+researchers+find+flaw+in+experiment+that+measured+fast...

And today we see them starting to fill and chill the RF at L4.

Hi Rudolfist, my guess would be that they are still weeks away from beam and the RF cavities cool relatively quickly. Right now they are doing current testing on the magnets in the green sectors.

The latest from Ageis experiment.

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1416071/fi ... SR-096.pdf

They hope to be up and running late 2012.

They are trying again and this time it will be 'On Air' meaning it will be live streamed. https://plus.google.com/u/0/104252363924132346643/posts/ZnMTwipn2MC?hl=en " Host location: The CMS Underground eXperimental Cavern (UXC), ~100 m underground, Cessy, France (http://g.co/maps/269u2) Streaming liv...

And they made a nice movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 6iTKQJIbp0#!

And it's official, the LHC will run at 4TeV / beam for a total energy of 8TeV in 2012 as announced by the CERN Machine Advisory Committee today. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR01.12E.html " The data target for 2012 is 15 inverse femtobarns for ATLAS and CMS, three times ...

Just finished. Here's the slides.
8 TeV in 2012 most likely.

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherV ... fId=164089

Unfortunately it was not an on air hangout which has a live stream the public can view during the event. They did say in comments for the original post I linked to above that they were recording the event for later playback. They also said that they would likely do a real ON Air hangout at some late...

I'm looking forward to it!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10425236392 ... dKGnsg98mE