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Sep 10, 2008 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the ...
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is developing designs for higher performance particle colliders that could follow on from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) once it reaches the end of its (High-Luminosity phase). The ongoing FCC Feasibility Study, expected to conclude in 2025, is investigating the technical and financial viability of the ...
Dec 23, 2022 · "Collider" because the particles form two beams travelling in opposite directions, which are made to collide at four points around the machine; How does the LHC work? The CERN accelerator complex (Image: CERN) The CERN accelerator complex is a succession of machines with increasingly higher energies. Each machine accelerates a beam of particles ...
A muon collider could be a possible post- High Luminosity LHC machine, to explore high-energy physics frontiers with a relatively small environmental footprint. A circular particle accelerator steers beams of charged particles into a curved path to travel around the accelerator’s ring. As they curve, the particles lose energy by emitting what ...
Apr 5, 2024 · On Friday 5 April, at 6.25 p.m., the LHC Engineer-in-Charge at the CERN Control Centre (CCC) announced that stable beams were back in the Large Hadron Collider, marking the official start of the 2024 physics data-taking season. The third year of LHC Run 3 promises six months of 13.6 TeV proton collisions at an even higher luminosity than before, meaning more collisions for the experiments to ...
Jan 26, 2021 · From the Intersecting Storage Rings to the SPS proton–antiproton collider, the Tevatron (Fermilab) and finally the Large Hadron Collider, the road to higher energy hadron colliders was an arduous one, requiring the invention of countless concepts and technologies, not to mention sharp political skills. But the payoff was spectacular. The ...
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of a new particle to a packed auditorium at CERN. This particle had no electrical charge, it was short-lived and it decayed in ways that the Higgs boson should, according to theory. To confirm if it really was the Higgs boson, physicists needed to check its “spin ...
Dec 27, 2022 · The collider's initial energy was chosen to be around 91 GeV, so that Z bosons could be produced. The Z boson and its charged partner the W boson, both discovered at CERN in 1983, are responsible for the weak force, which drives the Sun, for example. Observing the creation and decay of the short-lived Z boson was a critical test of the Standard Model. In the seven years that LEP operated at ...
Sep 6, 2024 · The recent P5 Report calls for “vigorous R&D toward a cost-effective 10 TeV pCM collider based on proton, muon, or possible wakefield technologies.” Specifically, the P5 Report requests “the delivery of an end-to-end design concept, including cost scales, with self-consistent parameters throughout.” In this presentation, I will outline the requirements and challenges for a 10 TeV WFA ...
Nov 13, 2022 · The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project aims to crank up the performance of the LHC, to increase the potential for physics discoveries after 2029. The objective is to increase the integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value. Luminosity is an important indicator of the performance of an accelerator ...
