Collisions!

[swalch]

At approximately 13:00 CEST on March 30, 2010, the Large Hadron Collider delivered proton-proton collisions to each of its four collision point detectors at 7 TeV.

This.  Is.  Awesome.

Comments

[koola]

Woo!
...
Now what does that mean?

[swalch]

It means my adviser is very, very excited, and that I am very, very busy. After all, he has teaching to do, and doesn't have time to analyze this data himself. :)

[koola]

Haha. I can imagine things are very up tempo. What specifically are you looking for in those collisions? And how are you and your supervisor directly linked to it?

[swalch]

Right now, we're looking for anything we recognize (technically, this is called calibrating) while we amass enough data to start looking for rarer/more interesting stuff. I'm not sure what you mean by directly linked to it.

[elle_cosette]

read about this in the paper. Immediately thought of you!