I was reading my favorite particle physics magazine this morning, Symmetry Breaking, and found a very exciting article that I wanted to share with those of you who don’t get it.
It describes in detail what one everything in one of the ATLAS event displays means. This is something that physicists use and publish, so I suggest that everyone check it out here.
They also have a similar article for CMS. It’s fun to compare the differences 
I saw that the LHC were running at 3,5 TeV with each beam in the machine this morning.
Does that mena thay they technically have collided at any point? The Beams?
This is true. There are both beams were accelerated to 3.5 TeV, however, no collisions yet. We’ll keep you updated.