LHC reaches 13-TeV collisions
MAY 21, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028896
BBC : Before CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins science-gathering collisions, workers there are testing its equipment, slowly ramping up the energy of its proton beams. Yesterday evening the collider reached an energy of 13 TeV at four collision points in the ring. During testing only a very few packets of protons are circulating at any one time. When the official “physics collisions” begin in June, several thousand packets will be in circulation simultaneously. The primary concern in the test collisions is determining whether the LHC systems can properly steer the protons at such high energies without damaging the machine or the detectors.
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