CMS Corrosion and Leaks: Water cooling lines fail and up to 100 liters floods inside of detector, while bursting water line floods the CMS Control Room, again.
First 0.9 TeV Collision in ALICE. National Geographic gets it wrong, "For the Large Hadron Collider's first result, ALICE found that a proton-proton collision recorded on November 23 created the precise ratio of matter and antimatter particles predicted from theory." CERN has a good laugh, "We should send all our papers to National Geographic."
Watch the CERN Webcast of the Press Conference from Monday, November 23, 2009 as beams started circulating. Check for live, upcoming and archived CERN Webcasts here.
Watch a recent CERN LHC News Video on beam injection tests performed before collider restart.
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