12:20 Tuesday 30.3.2010 ALICE is ready waiting for collisions

There have been two injections and ramping up of the proton beams during the morning but the beam was

lost on both trials. Now beams have been injected again and their energy is being ramped up to 3.5 TeV per beam.

 

13:01 First 7 TeV collisions seen by ALICE.

here you see some of the first displays of 7 TeV collisions with all the ALICE detectors on

here you see the vertex distributions showing that all proton proton collisions come from a well defined point at the center of the ALICE detector

a couple more 7 TeV collisions events

Click to see an event animation, a second one and a third one