LHC “First Beam”
August 8, 2008
On Friday the LHC accelerator folk succeeded in injecting a proton beam into the LHC and taking it from Point 2 to Point 3 (one eighth the way around). I believe this is the first beam in the LHC proper – they’ve put beam into the injection lines before, but not into the ring. From what I can find they got it to work on the first try. A promising sign of things to come? (We are promised a beam all the way around on September 10.)
