Integrated Luminosity doubled at CERN

May 17th twitter feed from CERN:

Another good weekend for the LHC saw the integrated luminosity for 2010 double. This is a measure of the total number of collisions.
8:04 AM May 17th

The previous post explains they are up to half a billion collisions.

Adding the tally from last weekend's runs, the LHC experiments have observed around half a billion collisions to date.
7:03 AM May 12th

Here's the link for the CERN twitter feed.

http://twitter.com/cern/

Here's another citation about the possible discovery of the decay of a "Strange beauty particle".

http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/

While everyone is worried about the CERN super-collider causing a black-hole, you have to admit that some pretty cool simulations have been created.

For your entertainment an excellent extreme black hole example, which happens to have CERN at its beginning.

Still not as exciting as siphons.

Posted By: gdanea | Date: Tue May 18, 2010 | Comments (11)
Category: Science

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