LHC is go

LHC is seeing collisions ! Twitterers have been seeing this stuff all day, and Lord Drayson is awfully excited, but for the rest of you, here is a message from Edinburgh LHCb chum Franz Muheim with the key links :

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Dear all,

Today at about 13:06 CEST the LHC has started colliding proton beams at 7 TeV. 🙂

This is the start of a new era in particle physics.

The webcast is ongoing at
http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/
See the press release from the CERN Director below.

Events from ATLAS and LHCb can be viewed at
http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/public/EVTDISPLAY/events.html
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/en/Collaboration/LHCbEvDis.html

A happy Edinburgh PhD graduate student in the LHCb control room
http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2010/1003054/1003054_32/1003054_32-A5-at-72-dpi.jpg

cheers

Franz

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