First splash events recorded in CMS on last Friday (March 8, 2024) made it more than obvious that the LHC team has brought back beams into the collider. Its BeamTime as they say at CERN and thus LHC finished the Year End Technical Stop (YETS), which started in November, 2023.
After the last two years have been riddled by various smaller and larger issues with the collider and the CMS experiment itself physicists are cautiously looking forward to a smooth 2024 data taking.