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LHC first physics webcast

ffeldhaus — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:34:56 +0000

After the successfull restart of the LHC, the first collisions with two 3.5 TeV beams colliding at 7 TeV will take place on march 30th. From 8:30 till 18:00 (UTC+01) there will be a live webcast at

http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/

The first collisions will probably take place between 9:00 and 11:00. The tentative schedule can be found here.

Update: An interesting page to watch the beam is the LHC Operations beam status page.

Lecture hint: The operation of the LHC accelerator complex

ffeldhaus — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:51:57 +0000

Dr. Stefano Redaelli from CERN will hold two lectures on an overview of what happens when the LHC is in running mode. The lectures should be suitable for everyone with a bachelor or Vordiplom in physics or electrical engineering.They will take place in the CERN main auditorium at

April 7, 10am-11am
April 9, 10am-11am

More information can be found in the official announcement. If you happen to not be at CERN during that time, there will be also a webcast! As additional information on the webcast becomes available, I will post it here!

CERN at Google Streetview

ffeldhaus — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:35:50 +0000

Since today Google Streetview is available for Switzerland. It covers quite a few streets and among them is the road to CERN.

Here you can see the main entrance:
CERN Main Entrance

And here you can see the ATLAS building

ATLAS building

… the CERN Globe:

CERN Globe

LHCb Experiment:

LHCb Experiment

Pictures of the LHC incident

ffeldhaus — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:53:30 +0000

Yesterday we played board games in the CERN restaurant. Talking about an official event on friday one of the guys said, that he probably won’t be invited to official events for some times, because of a recent dispute with the CERN management. Surely we wanted to know what he did and he told us, that in his blog he pointed to a talk given by CERN Director-General Robert Aymar where one of the topics was the status of the LHC. The interesting thing about the talk was, that it contains pictures from the LHC incident on September 19. In his blog he pointed to the slides of the talk which were publicly accesible, but hidden deep inside the CERN Web.

Shortly after he posted the link to the slides, the access to the slides was restricted. So he contacted the CERN Press Office, why this was done. The official reply from the CERN Press Office was, that they wanted to inform the CERN community first, before publishing the pictures to the general public.

The incident has happend quite a while ago and it’s good to finally see some pictures of it, even if many members of CERN criticize the lack of openness regarding this topic.

The LHC Rap Video :-)

ffeldhaus — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:03:57 +0000

So after the colleauges at SLAC already had their infamous rap video:

LHC now has its own:

Here seems to be the origin of this video.