au revoir Genève! I had a brilliant time at CERN. I could learn quite a lot and met a bunch of super-fun and fascinating people. My personal highlights included: after work editor-wars at R1, one student’s mum calling after seeing him on TV to tell him “you should shave”, one guy getting corrected on the […]
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“The Telegraph reports that Greek hackers were able to gain momentary access to a CERN computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while the first particles were zipping around the particle accelerator on September 10th. “ With all this nonsense about the LHC right now, this article is not a big surprise: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1657211 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/12/scicern312.xml&page=1 […]
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CERN LHC: First beam(s)
Yesterday the 10th of September 2008 thus the CERN LHC had its start-up and the first beam(s) were successfully circulating. As I’m part of the ATLAS project this summer I was in the “first-row”when the first beams were injected. We watched the transmission from the CCC, inside CERN, in the main auditorium. This video captured […]