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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, March 12 (Al Momento News) .- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), returned to run again gradually so it will reach its maximum power in May. Trust to the physics community open new windows of knowledge and lead to discoveries that will expand the frontiers of science.
“This may be a new era for science,” said Dave Charton, spokesman for the ATLAS detector, which is one of the four experiments that take place on the accelerator of the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN).
In a press conference the next stage of operation of the accelerator, it will work for three years before entering a new period will be presented technical review.
The LHC is the most powerful machine that exists, contains magnets drivers work like batteries, and its stored energy equivalent to that of an aircraft carrier, this device has the shape of a ring 27 kilometers in circumference and is within a located about 80 meters underground, on the border of Switzerland and France tunnel.
To work required to be at a temperature of 217 degrees Celsius below zero, ie, a lower temperature than the space.
Tiziano Camporesi, spokesman for the CMS experiment, reported to have worked very hard to improve the detector and have shown that we are able to exceed expectations . “We hope we can surprise again.”
In the past two years, the accelerator has been reviewed minutely, has gone through controls to prepare to support the energy reach of 13 TeV (tera) almost double the output of the first stage.
That energy level will be reached in May, following a gradual increase in a process that has already begun, said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.
When you get to reach 13 TeV proton collisions will occur at a comparable power that is needed to melt one ton of steel, said Chief Technology CERN, José Miguel Jiménez.
This event will start when the particles start to be introduced over the weekend in the accelerator, so that is projected to begin to circulate in opposite directions so after collisions inside the ring will occur in about two weeks.
After this, CERN physicists calibrate the direction of the protons, which can not be achieved only with the automatic procedures for measuring and correcting available to the LHC, according to the responsible Infrastructure of the organization, Lluis Miralles.
The calibration is vital to the extent that the procedure is optimized, so the proton beams will 11,000 revolutions per second at 27 kilometers off the accelerator.
This level of accuracy that protons will collide and produce data needed by physicists, this will be two arrows comparable to the diameter of a needle, shot 47 kilometers (facing each other) and whose tips are halfway.
This will help to discover “another model of physics that goes beyond what we know and can not explain what we see,” said finally Miralles.
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