You Beauty. The collisions heard round the world, including the UK
Wed 25 Nov 2009
The first collisions have been seen in the LHC a mere three days after the restart of the world's largest machine. These events have now been sent around the world via the grid and are being processed in computing centres across the globe including the UK.
| While all 4 experiments have seen events and reconstructed them, the UK first received and analysed data from LHCb. These were processed at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Raja Nandakumar who works on LHCb at RAL is very happy "things seem to be running smoothly so far though of course it is early days" |
First proton interactions inside LHCb detector. |
The first successful reconstructed event from LHCb was at RAL with CNAF in Italy processing a lot of the others.
For more info on LHC start up and the first collisions can be found here:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2009/PR16.09E.html
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2009/PR17.09E.html
http://www.e-science.stfc.ac.uk/news/2009/ral-tier-1-computers-process-their-first-data-from-cern-lhc-detectors9326.html
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/
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