#BeamTime
📣 We have beam in the tunnel 💫

Today, the Large Hadron Collider received the first particle beams of 2025. #BeamTime
April 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A bottle was engraved to celebrate #BeamTime.
May 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
As someone who has to hear about beamtime, it is hilarious that they're using beamtime in a headline.
January 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sailing the high energies ⚡

These are the first high-energy collisions recorded by the #LHC experiments in 2026.
Representing particle collisions at an energy of 13.6 TeV, these event displays mark the beginning of the experiments’ data-taking season and the final #LHCRun3.
#BeamTime
March 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
As we gear up for #BeamTime we feature the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB), an integral part of the CERN’s accelerator complex.
March 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Good to make these points. As an evaluator of beamtime proposals for the ESRF synchrotron, I had some early involvement with this project and supported it strongly. The key issue is that the ink contains little or no metal - I believe it was basically soot + gum arabic - and thus has basically no
June 28, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Fall beamtime begins! Here is Sarah @andolab.bsky.social ! 😎⚡️

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September 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Marcus @andolab.bsky.social getting ready for fall beamtime for the @diffuseproject.bsky.social 🔥
September 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Habemus collisions 💥

These are the first high-energy collisions recorded by the #LHC experiments in 2025.

Representing particle collisions at an energy of 13.6 TeV, these event displays mark the beginning of the experiments’ data-taking season, the fourth of the #LHCRun3. #BeamTime
May 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In a few weeks, the CCC will be bustling as the Large Hadron Collider awakens from its winter hibernation, ready for another data-taking season in #LHCRun3.

Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ac...

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February 18, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Spring at CERN 🌸

As the flowers start to blossom and the days are getting sunnier, CERN prepares for #BeamTime at the Large Hadron Collider and the start of the fourth data-taking season of #LHCRun3.

Which physics topic would you like us to cover this season? Let us know in the comments. 👇
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Und damit verabschiede ich mich auch schon wieder. Ich hoffe euch hat der kleine Einblick in den Forscheralltag in Kopenhagen gefallen und ihr habt Lust auf mehr Chemie bekommen. Folgt gerne mit auf @rpittkowski.bsky.social wenn ich mal wieder von Beamtime Experimenten live berichte.
April 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Okay last one for now 🧪😊
October 19, 2023 at 6:38 AM
🎇The first proton beams of 2025 were whizzed around the detector a few days ago, and today we have some gorgeous beam splashes! 🥳
This is when protons crash into a barrier just before the CMS detector, and muons from the impact continue traveling through the detector. #BeamTime
April 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
You got some last minute beamtime in Japan? Nice! And you need to ship some samples back? Of what?

Oh, it's radioactive. AND perishable?!? When do you need to ship by?

Have you heard "A failure to plan on your part does not constitute and emergency on mine" before?

Let's see what we can do...
October 30, 2024 at 8:34 PM
It's been a few years but for awhile there, my family's schedule was set to beamtime possibilities.
January 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Beamtime at P11, DESY! Ray is keeping us company while we make the most of every photon. #DESY #Xray #Synchrotron #Chemistry #PhDlife
March 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This pre-series is installed in-line with the previous scrapers for testing throughout 2025.

#DidYouKnow: the SPS is the second largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex, measuring nearly 7 km in circumference.

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March 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The above is from "Starwisp: An Ultra-Light Interstellar Probe" by Robert L. Forward, a 1985 paper proposing using a day or so of spare beamtime from a big space-based solar power satellite to push an ultralight microwave-reflective mesh 'sail' up to a significant fraction of lightspeed. Fun stuff!
April 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Open science! 📖 Notes from the first @andolab.bsky.social beamtime for the @diffuseproject.bsky.social - check it out!

diffuse.science/logbook/beam...
2025-09-24 @ CHESS 7b2 - Logbook
A logbook for the Diffuse Project
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September 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Finishing off 2 days of remote beamtime with Rebecca Metzler here at Colgate University. Lots of great data on the microstructures of past and present marine animals from the Gulf of Mexico, and even a couple of catnaps over the past 48+ hours. Thankful for support for science and for collaborators!
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Farewell beamtime at ALOISA, as always with awesome support and therefore excellent results. We hope to be able to repeat in the future in ELETTRA 2.0.
February 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We're pleased to be back on beamtime again - this time at the excellent I05 beam line at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My first beamtime at BESSY II MX14 were fantastic!! 💫
Huge thanks to the beamline scientists for the warm supports and of course to Stefano @stecanossa.bsky.social for the diffractive discussions as always!
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
How do we prepare for #restartingLHC?

We asked scientists Delphine and Samer to share with us how their teams get ready for #BeamTime at the Large Hadron Collider – from testing all the equipment to ensuring that the machine protection systems are operating at peak performance. 🏋️
April 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM