Geneva, August 11th 2008. The synchronization of the LHC's clockwise beam transfer system and the rest of CERN's accelerator chain was successfully achieved last weekend. read more ..
Countdown to LHC First Beam 16 days more ... September 10th, 2008
After a quarter of a century of dreaming and planning, designing and building, at last we are about to see the LHC completed.
Frank Close, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, is a former head of CERN's Communication Group. He recently visted CERN to give lectures to the summer students.
Already the excitement is gathering at the prospect of what will be discovered: possibly the Higgs Boson, or supersymmetry, or even things that no one has thought of. The world's media are already abuzz with anticipation. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. The visions of the new world will hopefully be tomorrow's stories; today, let's reflect on what has been achieved at even getting to this point and recall what it was like long ago when the dream began: in those bygone days, were you sure that the LHC would ever be?
Hadron headbanger machine chilled to ramming speed By Lewis Page
Scientists operating from a hollowed-out lair deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border have announced that their enormous, unprecedentedly powerful 27-kilometre proton cannon will shortly be ready to open fire. To be precise, "first beam" is scheduled for September 10th.
Uncharacteristically, perhaps, the boffins made their announcement via a normal press release rather than by seizing command of TV broadcasts. The traditional demand for a colossal sum of money to be paid by the world's governments on pain of cities erased hourly was also omitted - perhaps because these boffins have already received such funds in order to build their immense machine. read more...
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