All Systems Go
More shots to come later, but this is certainly my best one of the day. Taken just after obvious collision events started appearing on the event display (on a screen on the wall to the right of the camera), shortly after LHC announced that they were trying to bring the beams into collision. The fact that it came a few hours later than planned did not diminish that it was a beautiful first collision fill at 7 TeV. Now we watch the data roll in, get to work on understanding it, and hope that nature is kind.
All Systems Go
More shots to come later, but this is certainly my best one of the day. Taken just after obvious collision events started appearing on the event display (on a screen on the wall to the right of the camera), shortly after LHC announced that they were trying to bring the beams into collision. The fact that it came a few hours later than planned did not diminish that it was a beautiful first collision fill at 7 TeV. Now we watch the data roll in, get to work on understanding it, and hope that nature is kind.