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While not the main event yet, LHCb is showing possible collision events live at around 2hz

http://libris.nornagon.net/jca/lhc.htm

How's forum server holding out? Traffic peaking much?

Have not checked but seems perfect fast... The ElReg story was sure to increase our load.. Always does..

Xymox wrote:While not the main event yet, LHCb is showing possible collision events live at around 2hz

http://libris.nornagon.net/jca/lhc.htm

At what energy leveles?

I need to point out that these are beam/gas collisions, not Proton vs proton collisions..

But very soon... The main event..

Xymox wrote:I need to point out that these are beam/gas collisions, not Proton vs proton collisions..

But very soon... The main event..

So it's like proton-graphite collisions we discussed earlier - nothing the media could eventually complain about,

YEA !!!!!

7TeV COLLISIONS !

Good job. It's always nice waking up and hearing about a new record.

At 12:58 PM Cern time Logbook said "First collisions at 3.5TeV per beam!"

Historic!

ATLAS just reported a collision rate of 50/60Hz, which is apparently as planned.

I am so pleased I made myself sit through it......talk about facing ya fears head on was fantastic

Wonderful moment

60 Hz is much better than 1-2 Hz last year. But still - I think they'll have to increase number of bunches per beam soon if they want to collect the planned amount of data.

Beams dumped at 16:31 due to an LBDS interlock; LBDS is LHC Beam Dump System so I suspect that this was not planned. They are investigating

Log file shows the following:

Beam dumped because of tracking error of Principal circuit of generator MKD K beam 2.
Recorded a positive tracking error of 0.5 %

However, almost 3 hours of Physics run was achieved