In this video, LHC Project Leader, Lyn Evans relives the giddy moments on September 10 when the first beam of protons was injected into the LHC. Everyone was relieved and excited when the particles began traveling around the 27-kilometer underground tunnel, as it had been programmed to do.
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The beam of particles is now traveling around the 27-kilometer underground tunnel, which straddles the Swiss-French border near Geneva. It will take a couple of months for the LHC to get up to speed. The accelerated protons will travel at nearly the speed of light.
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It will take a couple of months to bring collisions up to the desired energy. When the LHC gets up to speed, the accelerated protons will travel with nearly the speed of light. The machine will produce about 800 million proton-proton collisions every second.
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He says protons are fed directly into the LHC ring via two injection lines, one for each beam. He says the first attempt to circulate two proton beams all the way around the ring will occur on September 10.
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