Scientists on the UW-Madison campus had little time to celebrate the history-making collision of subatomic particles at a massive collider near Geneva, Switzerland, this morning, moving quickly from running the experiment to combing through early data from the particle smash-up. Physicist Wesley Smith, one of more than 30 UW-Madison researchers working on the project, said data from the first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider were already flowing to computer banks in Chamberlin Hall and elsewhere on campus. Smith, who is now in Madison but will return to Switzerland in a few days, is part of a team that built one of the colliderâ??s main particle detectors. “It looks quite good,” Smith said of the data.
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