{"id":2542,"date":"2009-11-29T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2009-11-30T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:25:44","slug":"lhc-at-the-high-energy-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"LHC at the High Energy Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago, one of the beams of the LHC was ramped up to an energy of 1180 GeV, besting the Tevatron&#8217;s top beam energy of 980 GeV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  Actually the beam was lost at 1040 GeV, which is still a record high energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  A few minutes ago both beams were successfully ramped up simultaneously to 1180 GeV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  Wow, that was quick.  <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0911.5430\">First publication<\/a> based on LHC data is now out, from ALICE, based on data gathered a week ago. Nothing at all unexpected, this is just based on 284 total events, at the already well-studied energy of 900 GeV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago, one of the beams of the LHC was ramped up to an energy of 1180 GeV, besting the Tevatron&#8217;s top beam energy of 980 GeV. Update: Actually the beam was lost at 1040 GeV, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}