Mar 31, 2010 0
Large Hadron Collider Hits 7TeV
Today, the Large Hadron Collider, a CERN project, finally acheived a sustained 7 tera-electron-volt partile beam 
(which was scheduled to happen last year, I believe), and it also successfully collided protons at this speed (which is record-breaking already, and it’s not even close to full power).
With these record-shattering collision energies, the LHC experiments are propelled into a vast region to explore, and the hunt begins for dark matter, new forces, new dimensions and the Higgs boson. The fact that the experiments have published papers already on the basis of last year’s data bodes very well for this first physics run.
- ATLAS Collaboration Spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti
I’ve always been interested in the LHC project, I actually attended a video-conference about how its run in the last couple of months- I’m looking forward to seeing it operate at it’s full capacity, and maybe just redefine everything we think we know about Physics.
I’d love to (once I do my degree) have a chance to work with the engineers on the LHC, it’d be an amazing experience and something amazing to say I’d been part of.
