Stats of CERN: How many Higgs per second? @standupmaths

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Check out Lucie’s adventure around CMS on the Cosmic Shambles channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=ExSjxf5l0jw

This is the live feed of the LHC energies I was looking at:
https://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHCLUMINOSITY

It's part of this larger portal which has all sorts of in-depth stats:
http://www.lhcportal.com/Portal

This is the public-facing page for LHS statistics:
http://acc-stats.web.cern.ch/acc-stats/#lhc/overview-panel

Read all about the CMS detector.
https://cms.cern/detector

If you ask nicely it is possible to visit CERN yourself.
https://visit.cern/

CORRECTIONS
- At one point I say “collisions” when I mean “crossings”. I fixed it in the onscreen text.
- The figure I was given for distance to the collision point forgot the radius of the detector! Which is another 6m. So I was about 18m from the Higgs Bosons being produced. Let’s just call it “under 20m”.
- Let me know if you spot any other mistakes!

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