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stable beams are..

I thought those two terse log entries I quoted above were indicative of impending collisions - and that it was up to the guys and girls at CMS to write it up with a little more excitement in their voices

Thanks for the explanation of the collimators!

Harbles, I don't think it's a browser issue - it looks like their security cert is self-signed. 'Modern' browsers are much better in warning you about the potential security issues with that - for example, Firefox says: alice-logbook.cern.ch uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is n...

Just before the collisions post at CMS (13:10h), the LHC OP log reads

"Adjusted beam separations for colliding beams in all IRs." (Dec 5 12:51h)
"Finished with reference orbit. CMS and ATLAS see triggers." (Dec 5 13:06h)

Later on, the log talks about collimator studies.. what are those?