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Looks like they made 35hrs, the longest by far!!!

From P1; SQUEEZED STABLE BEAMS!!

Yes, I do think this is a "*Stone" for sure.

3x3 @ 3.5Tev Going now!

Unless I missed something, this is a new Milestone!

From P1: "Stable beams (at last)...., squeeze tomorrow after 8:30 meeting"

If I am reading this right, they hope to hold stable beams for about 3 hours (5:20 now), then try the squeeze. I wish them luck!

Seems to work again this morning, It's from CMSTV http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cmscc/cmstv/cmstv.jsp?channel=2&frames=yes which i don't think is behind a pw, but mine might auto load from the 2 computers I watch on (home & work). Like I said it wasn't working last night and now it does again so I'm happy ...

2 hrs+ uptime and flattop on P1, looks like a good run start for sure.



Harbles, could not get the cms link to work- overloaded?

Hope they go all day!

Looks like another good start, beam for almost 1hr and ramping now. Wish'em luck for another long run!

Ya, made it 18hrs, one heck of a run!

Congrats again to Cern!

Wowa! Over 14hrs now and counting!!! They up'd the bar and set the graph for 18hrs but heck, looks like thy might make it!!

Defiantly a record.

Very nice run today, 10hrs + @ 3.5TeV and still going! I think this would be another record. Lots of fireworks in the experiments too!

I read around 10 hours, looks like a new record to me

New Record! Beam for over 8 hours and at 3.5TeV too!

All I get is "#LHC is an invite only channel."

pitty, I wanted to join the party.

Thought it would be nice to have these links up high on this thread, let the games begin! expected collisions was announced officially today http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR06.10E.html (Champagne!) It better work at 9:00 AM CERN time as they have live satellite feed booke...

Have the beams crossed path yet? but without the detectors on? There are magnets to keep the beams apart in the experiments but so far they have not been used so there could have been collisions but since they have only 1 bunch in each beam and are keeping them out of sync with each other it was un...