I learned today that CERN's Large Hadron Collider has broken the energy record for particle beams, circulating a beam of protons with 1.18 trillion electron volts (TeV) energy. The previous record, 0.98 TeV, was held by Fermilab's Tevatron collider ( Read more... )

The Symmetry blog reports that a few hours ago, CERN circulated protons around the Large Hadron Collider.

This cheerful news marks a milestone in a long recovery from the accident of 19 September 2008. Congratulations to all those involved. May the journey of commissioning be smooth and speedy.

Courtesy of Fermilab's Visual Media Services, and coverage in Fermilab Today,here's the photo Reider Hahn took of the people wearing pajamas to this morning's Large Hadron Collider startup event:

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I just spoke with Judy Jackson, head of Fermilab's Office of Communication. She was wearing orange and blue pajamas ( Read more... )

From Fermilab Today:

Education Office Offers Family Open House, Feb. 19
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There seems to be some local resistance to the scheme of a guy who wants to install a cyclotron in his house in Alaska.

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Both collider experiments at Fermilab have officially hit an integrated luminosity of one inverse femtobarn. Champagne at 3:30. Whoopee ( Read more... )

Not only my picture, but also my byline, made it into today's issue of Fermilab Today.

If you've wondered what I've been up to (down to?) lately, part of it is getting NUMI ready to run safely, so that the Speaker of the House could press a magic button, sending neutrinos to Minnesota ( Read more... )

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