Proton Loop
(hmmmmmm) Under the silent Geneva fields
Twenty-seven kilometres of niobium-titanium coils
Supercooled down to 1.9 Kelvin Keeping the beam locked in its trajectory
Eleven thousand times a second
Protons flying through the dark vacuum
Eleven thousand times a second
The quiet before the collision
A cold coffee sits
beside the luminescent monitor
While the injectors prepare
the next fill
Luminosity climbing,
collimators aligned
Waiting for the first trigger,
the signature of decay
Eleven thousand times... Into the quiet.