Control room, LHC startup, Cern, November 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Large Hadron Collider at Geneva’s Cern (European Centre for Nuclear Research) has beat previously recorded energy levels by accelerating beams of particles to 1.18 TeV early 30 November. The previous record was 0.98 TeV.
Scientists at Cern are particularly happy about the results because they come only 10 days after the LHC was started up again after explosions one year ago caused serious and expensive damage.
The initial phase of work will take the LHC to 3.5 TeV.
“I was here 20 years ago when we switched on Cern’s last major particle accelerator, LEP,” says Steve Myers, research and technology director. “I thought that was a great machine to operate, but this is something else. What took us days or weeks with LEP, we’re doing in hours with the LHC. So far, it all augurs well for a great research programme.”
Background:“The LHC is up and running, but at half-speed in November“, 20 November 2009, GenevaLunch
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News story, GenevaLunch, 30 November 2009.
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Tags: Cern, LHC, particle accelerator, Steve Myers
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