Tag: LHC

  • Injection tests make a splash

    Injection tests make a splash

    Injection tests make a splash BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/injection-tests-make-splash) On Saturday 7 March, two of the LHC experiments saw proton beams for the first time after a two-year stop. Beam 2 (anticlockwise) made it through LHCb at 10.30 and Beam 1 (clockwise) passed through ALICE at 17.00. The two experiments were

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  • A philosophical experiment

    A philosophical experiment

    A philosophical experiment In 2008 a group of high-energy physicists, philosophers and historians of science decided to join forces to take a closer and critical look at the knowledge production which would accompany the first phase of operation of the LHC. In 2010, thanks to the support of the German Research foundation (DFG), the interdisciplinary

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  • LHC upgrades: the landscape becomes clearer

    LHC upgrades: the landscape becomes clearer

    LHC upgrades: the landscape becomes clearer Many of you have contacted me recently concerning the LHC detector upgrades, with some questions about the planning of future work. It is true that the one year stop after the LHC incident in September 2008, the need of a further shutdown to consolidate the interconnecting splices between magnets

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