The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Of these, only around 400 produced signatures compatible with the Higgs-like particle whose discovery was announced in July. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth installment in Douglas Adams bestselling cult classic, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Of the 6 million billion proton-proton collisions generated by the LHC, the ATLAS and CMS experiments have each recorded around 5 billion collisions of interest over the last three years. More intense beams mean more collisions and a better chance of observing rare phenomena.” "High-intensity beams are vital for the success of the LHC programme. “This new achievement augurs well for the next LHC run starting in 2015," says Steve Myers. The space between proton bunches in the beams was halved to 25 nanoseconds in order to further increase beam intensity and the accelerator’s luminosity. The remarkable first three-year run was crowned by a new performance milestone. This morning CERN teams brought the first proton run at the LHC to an end with the message "So long and thanks for all the fish," - a phrase made famous by British writer Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
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