Philibuster

The LHC has started up again after the problems last year. Nothing crazy so far and they haven’t really started doing any science in it yet. They’ve just inject beams and then dumped them shortly thereafter. By mid November they hope to have the first full pass of the beams around the whole ring and shortly after that starting collisions. There will be a burn in process where they calibrate the sensors and get used to the various quirks of the equipment but hopefully we’ll get something interesting by the time the shut down next fall.