{"id":709,"date":"2008-07-07T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=709"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:41:40","slug":"lhc-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"LHC Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest <a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/PressReleases\/Releases2008\/PR05.08E.html\">press release<\/a> from CERN about the LHC says first beams &#8220;currently scheduled for August&#8221;.  According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/ab-div.web.cern.ch\/ab-div\/Meetings\/ltc\/2008\/ltc_2008-09a.pdf\">presentation<\/a> at the July 2 meeting of the LHC Technical Committee, the latest news is that &#8220;circulating beam not before September&#8221; (the presentation includes a detailed version of the schedule of what has to take place between now and the end of August).  At this point the second to last sector is just about cool, the final one will take another two weeks.  The last of 470 trucks of liquid nitrogen has arrived.  Assuming it will take 1-2 months from first circulating beam until physics collisions, it looks like time for data-taking will be rather short before the shutdown for the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest press release from CERN about the LHC says first beams &#8220;currently scheduled for August&#8221;. According to a presentation at the July 2 meeting of the LHC Technical Committee, the latest news is that &#8220;circulating beam not before September&#8221; (the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","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\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}