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On the threshold of new territory

Rolf Heuer on the physics potential of the LHC's first long run

| 8 April 2010

With stable beams regularly circulating and colliding in the LHC, we have started the physics programme at 7 TeV. At a recent workshop in Italy, participants had the chance to take stock of what lies in store for the LHC’s first physics run. Waiting for collisions in the LHC…Image: CERN Our objective over the next 18 […]

Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC

| 8 April 2010

Director’s Corner 8 April 2010 Barry Barish Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC This past week marked the beginning of a new era for particle physics with the much publicised achievement of establishing the first 7-TeV collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Both the impressive performance of the accelerator and the fact […]