LHC Reaches Record Energy

toruonu writes "Yesterday evening the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time accelerated protons in both directions of the ring to 1.18 TeV. Even though the 1 TeV barrier per beam was first broken a week ago, this marks the first time that the beam was in the machine in both directions at the same time, allowing possibly for collisions at a center of mass energy of 2.36 TeV. Although the test lasted mere minutes, it was enough to have detectors record the very first events at 2.36 TeV. LHC passes Tevatron (the particle collider at Fermilab that operates at 1.96 TeV) and becomes the highest energy particle collider in the world (so far it was effectively just the highest energy storage ring...)"

Doom

[2names]

Doom, I tell you. It's coming for all of us.

Re:Doom

[purpledinoz]

Since we're all doomed, how about you send me all you money?

Energy consumption hypocrisy.

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it extremely hypocritical of so many European nations to be very gung-ho about the Copenhagen climate change conference and the associated chicanery with carbon offsets and all that crap, yet they're willing to fund and encourage excessive energy use like this.

The amount of power they used in mere minutes during this experiment could have powered millions of homes and businesses for a significantly longer period of time.

Is this related to this wormhole ..

[Idimmu Xul]

Is this related to the wormhole that opened up above Norway yesterday?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html [dailymail.co.uk]
http://angryhosting.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/92/92a406b3d33f96b6953bab7efdf4541c1f130c27.jpg [waffleimages.com]
http://img.waffleimages.com/d0718b906d187ca53b2e5a919c0e50dc2bb920d2/Fenomen_over_Borras_340148c.jpg [waffleimages.com]
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http://img.waffleimages.com/37f2e96dcb20b8b968af81799df40f72a36e73e1/1260346061961_198.jpg [waffleimages.com]
http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27553 [www.vgtv.no]
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http://img.waffleimages.com/9094e12c8e6320a3238bbf7e833c3cf6e36ed3c3/Fenomen_over_Borras_340147c.jpg [waffleimages.com]
http://img.waffleimages.com/e07e495a8589dd769b7640ac21be295f738c1c04/f8ec04b52d3ffb2558f3256fd8f11d0a.jpg [waffleimages.com]

Humorbot 5.0

[Yvan256]

So I says, "Super collider? I just met her!" And then they built the super collider. Thank you, you've been a great audience. - Humorbot 5.0

Breaking news.

[LWATCDR]

A herd of Lamas have escaped a local zoo and nibbled on the Christmas lights at CERN. The short caused the cooling system to go off line and the LHC will be off line for five months.

Re:Higgs

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Are you absolutely sure that "Lepton flavor violation" isn't some sort of horribly translated import-only hentai?

At 2.36TV...

[jd2112]

You only need about 0.5mA to send a DeLorian back in time!

Re:Breaking news.

[Yvan256]

The Lamas were heard shouting "stop whipping our ass" and seen trashing any PC running WinAmp.

Jiggawatts

[sagematt]

Dammit Slashdot, at least learn to use Jiggawatts instead of TeV or whichever crazy measure Europeans have, don't forget about your American audience!

Re:Doom

[MiniMike]

Start running your credit card up... You can't take it with you!

.. and if you've been good, those debt collectors can't follow you!

Re:Doom

[dumuzi]

I lepton the chance to be the FIRST POST!!!!!. and got so charged up about it I got a large hadron. I am still a little fermion. fortunately no black holes were involved, Unfortunately I miss gauged and some braneless boson beat me to the first post. so I had to gluon my post here, The insensitive clod who beat me was probably from the future and came back in time just to ruin my post, I do not for one welcome this new overlord from the future, The positive side of all this negativity is that having his post on top and mine on the bottom does have a quarky strange charm to it (like a flex fuel car’s superposition of states), At the risk of creating a messon this post (like a bird bombings and baguettes) and having it spin out of control I shall anti up. collapse my own wave function and walk myself off the Planck [through a displacement of 1,2 m (0,24 rods. or about 15 wamprats)] before the beams cross and swine flu mutates into ebola on Dec 21st 2012,

Still?

[Interoperable]

I've been following the LHC's progress fairly closely because I find the project absolutely fascinating. On the other hand, I think /. might be overdoing it a bit regarding news on the subject. Half the summary was devoted to explaining what exactly was different from the last posting. As all of the previous posting have explained, it will be a few months before anything truly exciting happens and years after that before the first really valuable scientific discoveries start occurring. Much of the discussion has become: "Are we there yet?" "No." "How about now?" "No." "And now?" "Still no."

In other news...

[HigH5]

... LHC also broke the record for working for the longest uninterrupted time.

Bah.

[sootman]

Yesterday evening the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time accelerated protons in both directions of the ring to 1.18 TeV

640GeV ought to be enough for anybody.

what's a lama?

[circletimessquare]

did you mean llama?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama [wikipedia.org]

or perhaps lamia, a child-eating female demon? that would be sexy but would certainly mess up cern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(mythology) [wikipedia.org]

they were attacked by hawaiian trees?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_sandwicensis [wikipedia.org]

they were attacked by a ukranian pop band?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama_(band) [wikipedia.org]

ohhh, you meant tibetan religious leaders! why won't those damn buddhist fundamentalists leave science alone!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama [wikipedia.org]

unfortunately, they may know lama, so they'll certainly kick your ass after knocking out cern with a tibetan white crane style kick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama_(martial_art) [wikipedia.org]

Re:Next week on slashdot....

[bill_mcgonigle]

The LHC becomes the first particle accelerator to collide protons at energies twice the speed of the tevatron!

Please explain the Google service or iPhone tie-in.

Re:Doom

[Verdatum]

This is your boss. Get back to work!!

Re:Doom

[MadKeithV]

Compiling!

Re:what's a lama?

[Captain Spam]

So you're suggesting it was a Lama-trained Lamia Lama playing for Lama under a Lama?

Man, when Lima hears about this...

Re:Doom

[dumuzi]

With a Beowulf cluster of memes already used I was afraid natalie portman's hot grits would make my post too memeingfull.

Re:Jiggawatts

[Anonymous Coward]

2.36 teraelectron volts = 3.78113645 × 10-16 gigamegamicrojoules

Re:Doom

[Verdatum]

Carry on.

Re:Breaking news.

[tool462]

Those responsible for the llama escape have been sacked.

The LHC will come back online in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

Re:Doom

[geekoid]

Fess up, you wrote that a year ago and have just been waiting for the chance to copy and paste it into a post, right?

Killjoy...

[hellfire]

Someone goes to all the effort to make a perfectly reasonable Back to the Future joke and you have to kill it with your infernal logic. Great Scott, how dare you! This is so heavy.

Thanks! You're a life saver!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks! I've got 40K in student loads and 1K on my credit card and 300K in mortgage on my home (which is now worth half that).

So if you want me to send you -341K dollars, I'll be happy to obligue. :-)

Re:Doom

[The Archon V2.0]

Very good. I love the sound of dying Cacodemons.

Stop, you're making me nostalgic for my days of abusing DeHackEd horribly.

Re:Doom

[vegiVamp]

Mmmm. Anyone got mozarella and olive oil handy ?

Re:Doom

[b4upoo]

No doom involved. This machine can microwave a turkey in an instant. Yum!

Re:Doom

[Tablizer]

Psssst, Boss. Make him use an interpreted language and skip the compile time wait.

Re:What?

[Tablizer]

Can the Singularity enlarge certain parts of the masculine anatomy too?

Yes, your adam's-apple will swell up like a pregnant camel. Stock up on soup.
     

Re:It was a russian rocket

[Wannabe Code Monkey]

Man, I am loving these Norwegian news sites. It looks like English and Norwegian have some similar words due to their common Germanic origin. But what's interesting is the fact that there seem to be many more false friends [wikipedia.org], which makes for amazing headlines like this one: "Innbrudd hos Nicky Hilton - Jeg hater folk som stjeler, twitrer søstera Paris". Which of course I interpret as "Inbred hos Nicky Hilton and her sister Paris hate folks who twitter".

Webcam

[elmartinos]

Webcam from the LHC is here [cyriak.co.uk]