AIP Celebrates "World TeV Day" and Congratulates CERN on Latest Milestone

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 15:35 in Physics & Chemistry

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is celebrating March 30, 2010 as "World TeV Day" in recognition of the major milestone achieved at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at approximately 1:06 p.m. CEST earlier today. At that precise moment, protons traveling at nearly the speed of light smashed together at energies of 7 TeV -- the highest-ever energetic particle collisions achieved in a laboratory.

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