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> having beams properly travelling It's certainly an achievement to be celebrated, but the beams are more like limping along: "CERN’s director, Rolf Heuer, sa
by martincmartin 17y ago
> having beams properly travelling
It's certainly an achievement to be celebrated, but the beams are more like limping along:
"CERN’s director, Rolf Heuer, said in a statement, 'It’s great to see beam circulating in the LHC again,' but he and others cautioned that there was a long way to go before the collider started producing the physics it was designed for.
"When the collider begins to do real physics next year, it will run at half its original design energy, with protons of 3.5 trillion electron volts. The energy will be increased gradually during the year, but it could be years, physicists say, before the machine reaches its full potential."
The machine will "soon" be at a level slightly above the Tevatron.