Ladies & Gentlemen, Protons & Neutrons,
The Large Hadron Collider’s Accelerator Division has successfully collided, for the first time, two 4 TeV proton beams! Congratulations to all who made this possible. I can promise that everyone is looking forward to what may be discovered!
Now enjoy some images courteous of @lhcstatus and @ATLASExperiment.
@ATLASExperiment: First 8 TeV collisions from the #LHC in the #ATLAS detector! Thank you LHC operators. Next week: #Physics! @CERN http://pic.twitter.com/ItAbbl64 (Note: Yes, this is actually an 8 TeV collision.)
@lhcstatus: #LHC 17:13:43: preparing collisions (shortly) pic.twitter.com/bDrbjVt9
@lhcstatus: #LHC 17:33:43: preparing collisions http://pic.twitter.com/V3GWWsDW
@ATLASExperiment: Monitoring the position of the beams in #ATLAS as #LHC prepares for 8 TeV collisions. #CERN #Physics http://pic.twitter.com/m1WAitei
Happy Colliding!
– richard (@bravelittlemuon)
PS: Data-taking for physics starts next week. Happy Friday.
