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Re: Next up: A turbocharged LHC

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Next up: A turbocharged LHC
>> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/next-up-a-turbocharged-lhc

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>> Physicists are already preparing upgrades that will increase the
>> physics reach of the Large Hadron Collider in the next decade.
>>
>> Even though the Large Hadron Collider is at the peak of its
>> performance, currently smashing protons at a record-breaking energy,
>> physicists are already planning for its next iteration, which will
>> make its debut in 2025.
>>
>> Today, scientists and engineers from more than a dozen institutions
>> around the world met in Geneva to discuss the beginning of
>> construction for the High-Luminosity LHC.
>>
>> ?About halfway through the construction of the LHC, scientists in the
>> United States started developing new magnet and accelerator
>> technologies for the HL-LHC,? says Peter Wanderer, head of the
>> Superconducting Magnet Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
>> ?This meeting gives us the chance to integrate our work and progress
>> with the efforts at CERN and other organizations involved in the
>> luminosity upgrade.?
>>
>> Luminosity describes the rate of particle collisions. By increasing
>> the number and density of protons in the LHC, and by manipulating the
>> orientation of the proton bunches when they collide, physicists can
>> maximize the number of proton collisions per second.
>>
>> ?The LHC already delivers proton collisions at the highest energy and
>> the highest luminosity ever achieved by an accelerator,? says
>> Director General of CERN, Rolf Heuer. ?Yet the LHC has only delivered
>> 1 percent of the total planned number of collisions.?
>>
>> Currently, the LHC collides 600 million protons every second. The
>> planned upgrades will increase this rate by at least a factor of
>> five.
 
Summary; The LHC will get yet another upgrade.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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