Thibaut Lefevre
CERN
In Geneva, the 20th of November 2009, Protons beams are once again circulating in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Three days later the LHC circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. On the 30th of November, Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV. When the LHC starts up again in 2010, the operators will aim at gently increasing the intensity and energy of the beams until the planned 3.5 TeV for each beam is reached, marking the beginning of the physics programme. The talk will present an overview of the LHC machine and will give a status of what has been achieved during the beam commissioning in 2009. The strategy for the next run will be finally discussed.
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Room L211, Technological Institute
Refreshments are served at 3:30 PM
