Generated 18 October 2011 01:17 Credit : LHC

This weekend, the LHC reached its proton collision target for 2011, delivering a luminosity of 5 inverse femtobarns – a unit corresponding 350 million million (35 x 10¹⁴) collisions – to the ATLAS and CMS experiments. The target was reached 2 weeks before the end of proton running.

More information:

• Quantum diaries: What will we do with all this data?
• Quantum diaries blog: Why don't we just say collision rate?
• LHC luminosity charts