{"id":7662,"date":"2015-04-09T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2015-04-13T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:38:56","slug":"lhc-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7662","title":{"rendered":"LHC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LHC has just ramped up for the first time to 6.5 TeV, and has a probe beam circulating in one direction, the highest energy protons humans have ever accelerated.  You can follow what&#8217;s happening <a href=\"https:\/\/op-webtools.web.cern.ch\/op-webtools\/vistar\/vistars.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has gotten <a href=\"http:\/\/i2.mirror.co.uk\/incoming\/article5467619.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/BBC-HARDON.jpg\">very excited<\/a> about this whole LHC thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  Now it&#8217;s two beams at 6.5 TeV. They just need to be careful to avoid beam collisions until the press event is organized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  Maybe they weren&#8217;t careful enough.  The Monday morning beam commissioning reports &#8220;Possibly first collisions&#8221;.  No confirmation of this from the experiments, or officially from CERN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LHC has just ramped up for the first time to 6.5 TeV, and has a probe beam circulating in one direction, the highest energy protons humans have ever accelerated. You can follow what&#8217;s happening here. The BBC has gotten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7662\">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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/7662","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=7662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7666,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions\/7666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}