LHC powers up for the first time
SEP 10, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031047
On this day in 2008 the the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, was powered up for the first time. The experiment involves 10,000 engineers and scientists from more than 100 countries. In its first run, which lasted from March 2011 through February 2013, the LHC and its detectors created a quark-gluon plasma, discovered the the χb (3P) meson, observed the rare decay of the Bs meson into two muons and found a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The LHC’s second run began this June.
Date in History: 10 September 2008
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