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KDE Congratulates CERN's Large Hadron Collider (KDE.News)KDE Congratulates CERN's Large Hadron Collider (KDE.News)Posted Sep 11, 2008 19:35 UTC (Thu) by snits (subscriber, #37976)In reply to: KDE Congratulates CERN's Large Hadron Collider (KDE.News) by pr1268 Parent article: KDE Congratulates CERN's Large Hadron Collider (KDE.News)
They haven't done a full test yet. What they were doing the other day was
diagnostics of gettng a beam to travel one direction around the loop. Next up was doing the same for the other direction, and then they will do an actual collision which I would believe is where all the theories of mini black holes comes in.
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The world wasn't swallowed whole... Posted Sep 11, 2008 20:22 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] They haven't done a full test yet. What they were doing the other day was diagnostics of gettng a beam to travel one direction around the loop. Next up was doing the same for the other direction, and then they will do an actual collision which I would believe is where all the theories of mini black holes comes in. Yeah, I know. I was just attempting a little facetious humor at the expense of the naysayers. ;-)
KDE Congratulates CERN's Large Hadron Collider (KDE.News) Posted Sep 12, 2008 13:32 UTC (Fri) by smorovic (guest, #52892) [Link]
Also the energy of this beam and first collisions will be below what Tevatron achieved (450 GeV/proton). So that's already tried. Real test comes with 10 and next year 14 TeV center of mass collisions.
Regarding software, SLC4 (RHES4 recompile) is a platform for all detectors' software at CERN. (no idea what exactly they use at the accelerator department though). That said, plenty of physicists have Apple laptops around.
Not that Windows is not used though, AD and MS Exchange are used for mailboxes and account administration.
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