Lhc update december 2009




















The archaeologists find a Gallo-Roman villa with surrounding fields, as well as coins from Ostia a seaport of Rome , Lyons in France then Gaul and London. The experiment will study the phenomenon known as CP violation, which would help to explain why matter dominates antimatter in the universe. Read the LHCf letter of intent. The CMS cavern is 53 x 27 x 24 metres.

To make space for the enormous detector, , cubic metres of soil have been removed from the detector cavern and a second space that houses technical components. The metre dipoles, each weighing 35 tonnes, are the most complex components of the machine. In total, dipoles were lowered to 50 metres below the surface via a special oval shaft.

They were then taken through a transfer tunnel to their final destination in the LHC tunnel, carried by a specially designed vehicle travelling at 3 kilometres per hour. The machine is ready to embark on a new era of discovery at the high-energy frontier. Explore the resources prepared for press.

Proper safety procedures are in force, the safety systems perform as expected, and no-one is put at risk. More about the incident: A full technical analysis of the incident is available here. Yamauchi adds the second eye to mark the completion of the project. The final magnet, a quadrupole designed to focus the beam, is lowered in the afternoon and starts its journey to Sector , the scene of the September incident.

In total 53 magnets were removed from Sector after the incident. Sixteen that sustained minimal damage were refurbished and put back into the tunnel. The remaining 37 were replaced and will be refurbished to provide spares for the future. This news comes after the machine was handed over for operation on Wednesday morning. A clockwise circulating beam was established at ten o'clock this evening.

This is an important milestone on the road towards first physics at the LHC, expected in A failure in an electrical connection led to serious damage, and CERN has spent over a year repairing and consolidating the machine to ensure that such an incident cannot happen again.

The LHC reached its operating temperature of 1. Particles were injected on 23 October, but not circulated. A beam was steered through three octants of the machine on 7 November, and circulating beams have now been re-established. The next important milestone will be low-energy collisions, expected in about a week from now. These will give the experimental collaborations their first collision data, enabling important calibration work to be carried out. This is significant, since up to now, all the data they have recorded comes from cosmic rays.

Ramping the beams to high energy will follow in preparation for collisions at 7 TeV 3. Collisions at 2. The LHC circulated its first beams of on 20 November, ushering in a remarkably rapid beam-commissioning phase. The first collisions were recorded on 23 November, and a world-record beam energy was established on 30 November.

Following those milestones, a systematic phase of LHC commissioning led to an extended data-taking period to provide data for the experiments. Over the last two weeks, the six LHC experiments have recorded over a million particle collisions, which have been distributed smoothly for analysis around the world on the LHC computing grid. The fact that all the objectives set back then have been achieved is a ringing endorsement of the step-by-step approach adopted by the CERN management.

A technical stop is needed to prepare the LHC for higher energy running in Before the running period began, all the necessary preparations to run up to a collision energy of 2. To run at higher energy requires higher electrical currents in the LHC magnet circuits. LHC beam commissioning, high intensity operation at GeV collisions. LHC beam commissioning, Status, preparation for high intensity. LHC beam re-start. Transfer line beam tests, LHC beam re-start.

Reports on the LHC beam commissioning. Eventually this connection will be welded together so that the beams are contained within the beam pipes.

What is the LHC? The CERN accelerator complex is a succession of machines with increasingly higher energies. Each machine accelerates a beam of particles to a given energy before injecting the beam into the next machine in the chain. This next machine brings the beam to an even higher energy and so on.

The LHC is the last element of this chain, in which the beams reach their highest energies. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes — two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field maintained by superconducting electromagnets. Below a certain characteristic temperature, some materials enter a superconducting state and offer no resistance to the passage of electrical current.

The accelerator is connected to a vast distribution system of liquid helium, which cools the magnets, as well as to other supply services. What are the main goals of the LHC? What is the origin of mass? The Standard Model does not explain the origins of mass, nor why some particles are very heavy while others have no mass at all. Particles that interact intensely with the Higgs field are heavy, while those that have feeble interactions are light.



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