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"Our objective over the next 18 to 24 months is to deliver one inverse femtobarn of data to the experiments."

By gregladen on March 9, 2010.

This is a piece by Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN explaining what is happening over at LHC. A must read.

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Over at AAAS' ScienceInsider, there is a piece emphasizing that the LHC is looking at an abbreviated run, at half power:
http://tinyurl.com/y9ud5vc

The article by Rolf Heuer didn't make that very clear.