1. First Beam in the LHC
September 10, 2008 in the ATLAS control room

2. First Malfunction at the LHC
September 19, 2008 in the LHC tunnel

3. September 2008 Incident
The electrical arc destroyed the busbars

4. LHC Dipole Busbars
The copper busbar must take the current during the current decay after a quench

5. LHC and ATLAS 2011 Running Fantastic! x5 the 2011 LHC goal
In 2012 the LHC will run at 8 TeV and aims to deliver x3 the amount in 2011
In 2014 the LHC will finally run at its design energy of 14 TeV

6. ATLAS Detector

7. ATLAS Detector

8. ATLAS Detector
Fills half a football stadium

9. Particle Identification in ATLAS9

10. ATLAS Particle ID

11. pp Collision in ATLAS

12. Pileup Problems?
Running with 50 ns bunch spacing gives an average of 6 pp interactions per crossing

13. ATLAS Collaboration