*** 2.36TeV collisions ***

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*** 2.36TeV collisions ***

Post by Xymox » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:10 pm

Its not confirmed yet...

But they may have snuck in some 2.36TeV collisions !!!!!!

It is confirmed they did 1.18TeV beams...

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by gluon » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:17 pm

Sneaky physicists! :lol:

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Xymox » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:23 pm

I love it

Might have been by accident and a experiment picked it up

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Xymox » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:35 pm

There is good reason to believe collisions occurred.. No reason to doubt..

No official news yet tho..

Man you just gotta love this kinda stuff... Just when you least expect it...

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Shadowdraxx » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:57 pm

just curious but the atlas, alice, cms and co were on standby, does this mena that it wasnt possible or sometimes do ya reckon they dont allow updates to this to keep it a lil secret ? :)

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Xymox » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:06 am

Its official....

2.36TeV collisions... 2.36 collisions occurred for 3 minutes in fact.

http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/public/E ... vents.html

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Shadowdraxx » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:11 am

WOW

nice but yeah they seem all a bit silent considering its another record!
gratz guys :)

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by CharmQuark » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:18 am

Well there is a result in it's self :D

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by DCWhitworth » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:27 am

OK, sceptic here ;)

Beam 1 was lost pretty soon after they hit 1.18 TeV, make the possiblity of collisons low I think. I hope I'm wrong though.
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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by DCWhitworth » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:29 am

http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/public/E ... vents.html

I'm wrong, I'm very wrong. And I'm very glad I am wrong.

Wow - good spot Chris and way to go LHC guys !
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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by seabass » Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:37 am

those tricksters!

from looking at the LHC news I thought the machine had a broken leg :?

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by March_Hare » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:23 am

Great news! Way to go, CERN!
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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Stephen » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:54 am

I'm so glad these collisions came off as a surprise. Way to go!

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by MikeHus » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:01 am

This is great news!

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Re: *** POSSIBLE 2.3TeV collisions ***

Post by Xymox » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:10 am

It was hilarious.. A group of us were watching the ramping LIVE and chatting in IRC at the time covering the ramping...

We had NO idea collsions would occur... Looking back OF COURSE they could occur...

Suddenly there was rumor... Then OMG... Some stunned silence in chat... Then WOW we completely missed it..

Mind you we were using 5 computers and 6 computers at a time with all the displays / logs showing.

It was quite funny...

I think our chance to catch it was via the brand new LHCb near real time event display. But we were not watching, it was a new thing... I am now tho !!!!

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