newly developed Large Hadron Collider (LHC) just broke a world record with a proton beam.
The LHC is located at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, ré Friday (April 22), after a planned three-year hiatus, during which several improvements were made to the facility. These improvements are already being tested, and when you restart and prepare for the new play phase, it’s called play 3The LHC has already surpassed the previous record.
This particle accelerator is the largest and most powerful in the world. And in a test carried out shortly after the restart, the LHC accelerated the proton beams to a higher energy than ever before.
“Today two experimental #LHC proton beams were accelerated, for the first time, to a record energy of 6.8 teravolts per beam. 2022″, CERN tweeted today (April 25th).
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Today, two experimental #LHC proton beams were accelerated, for the first time, to a record energy of 6.8 teravolts per beam. 🎉 After #restartingLHC, this operation is part of device restart activities in preparation for #LHCRun3, planned for summer 2022. pic.twitter.com/8NZ6nNJSVfApril 25, 2022
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The LHC works by accelerating two beams of particles, like protons, towards each other. These high-energy beams collide, allowing particle physicists to explore the extremes of our physical world and even discover aspects of physics never seen before.
With updates implemented during the planned shutdown, the energy of the Large Hadron Collider’s proton beams was set from 6.5 TeV to 6.8 TeV. For reference, one teraelectronvolt is equivalent to 1 trillion electronvolts and, in terms of kinetic energy, approximately equal to the energy of a flying mosquito. While this may seem like a very small amount of energy, for a single proton it is a huge amount of energy.
The LHC is used to explore cosmic mysteries ranging from investigating potential dark matter candidates to completely deconstructing our understanding of physics. Now that the LHC is working as intended with new upgrades, it is well on its way to enabling a new round of groundbreaking research in physics.
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