CERN's Large Hadron Collider returns to service after 3-year hiatus
Four years of physics-data taking are set to begin this summer at the LHC, marking the third run of the collider.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Published: APRIL 24, 2022
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was restarted on Friday after being turned off for over three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the LHC at 1:16 p.m. Israel time on Friday. “These beams circulated at injection energy and contained a relatively small number of protons. High-intensity, high-energy collisions are a couple of months away,” said the head of CERN’s beams department, Rhodri Jones, in a press statement. “But first beams represent the successful restart of the accelerator after all the hard work of the long shutdown.”
Four years of physics data-taking are set to begin this summer at the LHC, marking the third run of the collider. Until then, experts at the collider will work to recommission the machine and safely ramp up the energy and intensity of the beams before collisions for experiments will take place at a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts.
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Four years of physics-data taking are set to begin this summer at the LHC, marking the third run of the collider.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Published: APRIL 24, 2022
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was restarted on Friday after being turned off for over three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the LHC at 1:16 p.m. Israel time on Friday. “These beams circulated at injection energy and contained a relatively small number of protons. High-intensity, high-energy collisions are a couple of months away,” said the head of CERN’s beams department, Rhodri Jones, in a press statement. “But first beams represent the successful restart of the accelerator after all the hard work of the long shutdown.”
Four years of physics data-taking are set to begin this summer at the LHC, marking the third run of the collider. Until then, experts at the collider will work to recommission the machine and safely ramp up the energy and intensity of the beams before collisions for experiments will take place at a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts.
more............. https://www.jpost.com/science/article-704921