LHC

"The preparations for the first beam of LHC are in full swing. I am surprised to see such a giant organization around an event which, albeit symbolic, has really little practical relevance. Protons will be launched across the full 27 kilometers of the LHC tunnel, bent by the superconducting magnets of the machine, at less than 1 TeV of energy. It is not clear to me the exact energy of the beam, but I suspect that even CERN itself could do better as far back as during the eighties, when the smaller-lesser collider provided 546, and later 630 GeV proton-antiproton collisions that fruited Rubbia the W and Z boson discovery and a hefty Nobel Prize, together with SImon Van Der Meer. As for the beam intensity, as compared with the super-highway design one, the flux of protons will be more or less like that of vehicles on a dust trail in Arizona, and our detectors will be like poor souls dozing on the side, thumb up for a hitchhike in case a car stops.
The event, therefore, is purely a mediatic one. Hordes of reporters
are crowding the place already today, and you can see them wandering
around in small groups, with video cameras and other gadgets. So one
really has a hard time escaping the feeling that September 10th will
be a ..."

More: http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/roadmap-and-links-to-broadcasts-of-the-september-10th-event/

Butonul principal http://www.isv.uu.se/~nazila/CMS/img-44.html va fi
comutat la ora 10h30 ora Romaniei. De fapt probe au inceput de ieri:
http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/beams-in-lhc/

Daca doriti sa urmariti live evenimentul, iata aici citeva linkuri:
http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/roadmap-and-links-to-broadcasts-of-the-september-10th-event/