Posts Tagged ‘LHC’

Searching for the Higgs boson has proven to be much more difficult than just a needle in the haystack idea. However, scientists now say that they have “significantly” narrowed the believed mass region of the mysterious boson.

Fermilab is scheduled to shut down its legendary Tevatron particle smasher next month, but scientists are navigating difficult political and financial waters to build the International Linear Collider (ILC) as the potential successor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN: Fermilab makes plain sense and the U.S. cannot afford not to give the ILC to Fermilab. I was lucky enough to see the origins of what is likely to become the technology for the next super collider.

Some believe it is the greatest physics experiment ever made by human hand. Some believe it is pure insanity. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now, some 16 months later than initially planned, officially online and is running first tests at substantial energy: Proton and anti-proton beam collisions were conducted at a massive 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), which more than seven times the energy that could be created in similar experiments on earth so far. And it is only the beginning; The LHC runs only at half of its potential, but is already taking a journey into matter, space and time. Extra: Slideshow