{"id":3138,"date":"2009-11-08T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2009-11-08T13:36:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T20:36:36","slug":"beam-seen-in-lhcs-cms-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/beam-seen-in-lhcs-cms-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Beam Seen in LHC&#8217;s CMS Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mischievous <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/11\/06\/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up\/\">baguette-dropping birds<\/a> be damned!  The LHC had another milestone this weekend, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmsdoc.cern.ch\/cms\/performance\/FirstBeam\/cms-e-commentary09.htm\">CMS experiment detected &#8220;splash&#8221; events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmsdoc.cern.ch\/cms\/performance\/FirstBeam\/cms-e-commentary09.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/11\/iSpy-20-32-34.290-07.11.2009-1024x695.png\" alt=\"Splash at CMS\" width=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not quite to the promised land yet (even remembering that the beam energies are a lot lower than we eventually want them to be).  A little while ago we had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/10\/27\/beam-is-back-the-lhc-restarts\/\">beam traveling through the accelerator<\/a>, which is obviously a big step.  These splash events happen when the beam collides into something &#8220;upstream,&#8221; creating a splash of particles that are then detected by the experiment.  The big step will be when beams moving in opposite directions actually collide with each other inside the detector.  I predict you&#8217;ll hear soon when that happens.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow CMS at its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=201511418988#\/pages\/Geneva-Switzerland\/CMS\/35328943432\">Facebook fan page<\/a>.  528 fans, I&#8217;m sure we can boost that number.<\/p>\n<p>I already have a bet with Brian Schmidt that we will fine at least 3-sigma evidence for the Higgs within five years (either at Fermilab or the LHC).  Feeling pretty optimistic right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mischievous baguette-dropping birds be damned! The LHC had another milestone this weekend, as the CMS experiment detected &#8220;splash&#8221; events. They&#8217;re not quite to the promised land yet (even remembering that the beam energies are a lot lower than we eventually want them to be). A little while ago we had beam traveling through the accelerator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higgs","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}