GENEVA (Notimex) .- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN by French acronym) today launched a new season for collecting data on proton collisions at a record energy of 13 TeV.
The Collider started delivering physical data for the first time in 27 months, having not worked for almost two years, CERN said in a statement.
The LHC is providing collisions at all its experiments with unprecedented energy of 13 TeV, almost double the energy recorded in the collision of the first season in which he walked.
This marks the start of the second season in the LHC, “opening the way for new discoveries,” he said.
“The LHC will now work all day for the next three years,” he said.
With the return to activity of the LHC the end of the two months scientists took to get it going again being held, said the director of accelerators and technology at CERN Frédérick Bordry.
” It is a great achievement and a rewarding time for all the teams involved in the work done during the time he was off the LHC and in the process of commissioning the beam. All these people have it devoted much of its time to make it happen, “he said.
Today the LHC operators were declared” stable beams “and began taking data.
This kind of beams are made of “trains” bunches of protons moving at nearly the speed of light around the 27-kilometer LHC ring. Called “trains” circulate in opposite directions, guided by powerful superconducting magnets, CERN said.
The LHC is the largest and most powerful accelerator in the world, with conductive magnets which work like batteries, and its stored energy equivalent to that of an aircraft carrier moving at 43 kilometers per hour or 380 Airbus flying 700 km.
The accelerator is within a tunnel, 80 meters underground between Switzerland and France to run requires being at a temperature of 217 degrees Celsius, ie, to lower the space temperature.
During the closing of two years, the four large experiments Collider ALICE, ATLAS , CMS and LHCb went through a major program of maintenance and improvements with a view to preparing for the new energy frontier.
“The LHC is filled six clusters each containing around 100 billion proton. This rate will increase progressively as the race continues two thousand 808 bunches per beam, allowing the LHC can produce up to one billion collisions per second ‘, said
During the first season of operation. Of LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, known as the God particle, which was the last piece of the puzzle known as the Standard Model, the theory that describes the interaction between fundamental particles that is done visible in the universe.
‘The first stage of three years of implementation of the LHC, which culminated in a breakthrough in July 2012 (the Higgs boson), was just the beginning of our trip. Time for a new physics, “said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.
” We have seen that the first data begins to flow. Let’s see what they will reveal about how our universe works, “concluded
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