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CERN Cranks up the Large Hadron Collider to 7 TeV

05/29/2010 01:16AM

CERN Cranks up the Large Hadron Collider to 7 TeV

On March 30, 2010, particle beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were smashed into each other at 7 TeV (Terra Electron Volts), marking the start of a hopefully long and fruitful research program. Now particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics and exotic particles as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy level three and a half times higher than previously achieved in a particle accelerator. Initially, researchers will go through a process of "re-discovering" all of the known Standard Model particles -- a necessary precursor to looking for new particles. Then the real fun will start. The LHC will run continuously for 18 to 24 months with the objective of delivering enough data to make significant advances across a wide range of fronts. The LHC will then be shut down for routine maintenance and preparations will start for its next journey, which will take it up to the design limit of 14 TeV.


Comments:

  • Ken1963 [Kenneth lee]
  • 05/29/2010 01:54AM
<img class='' src='http://new.astromart.com/astromart/javascripts/sceditor/emoticons/shocked.png' alt='shocked' title='shocked'/>
  • nirvanix [richard van kessel]
  • 05/29/2010 06:50PM
I don't like CERN's logo with the 666 in it. And I don't like the Vatican's new telescope "Lucifer". What a world we live in.


  • crw4096 [Charles Wright]
  • 05/30/2010 05:59PM
Tera = 10^12
  • wsafley [William Safley]
  • 05/31/2010 12:31AM
<blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Charles Wright said:</i><br><br>Tera = 10^12</div></blockquote>and Terra = the earth


Is anyone else getting odd letters and symbols in these stories. An example is below.<br><br>“We’ve all been impressed with the way the LHC has performed so far,� said Guido
  • keydoggy [Clifford Davis]
  • 06/02/2010 01:40AM
H'mm. Are we already seeing attempts to communicate with us from unseen dimensions? 8O <br><br> -cliff

  • wsafley [William Safley]
  • 06/03/2010 09:01PM
<blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Cyril Mundell said:</i><br><br>Is anyone else getting odd letters and symbols in these stories. An example is below.<br><br>“We’ve all been impressed with the way the LHC has performed so far,� said Guido </div></blockquote><br>I'm seeing the same thing (Firefox on Linux). It looks like a character encoding issue. <br><br>This kind of thing is especially common if the person posting content on the web copies and pastes it from a word processing program (eg. Microsoft Word). It happens when, for example, Word wants to use "pretty" characters for quotes, apostrophes, etc instead of plain old text characters, which aren't interpreted correctly by folks using other character encodings. However, to the person posting, it generally looks fine. <br><br>Ah, the joys of the web...