CERN Large Hadron Collider Ready To Reopen In March 2015
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be commence its second three-year run in March this year, CERN announced at the 174th session of the CERN Council. The LHC has helped particle physicists to make some amazing discoveries.
LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. The entire construction is extended for 27 kilometers. It has now almost cooled to its nominal operation temperature of 1.9 degrees above zero.
The run is commencing after a 2-year technical stop. The stop has helped scientists prepare the machine for running at almost double the energy of the LHC's first run. The operating energy for the next run is 6.5 TeV.
"With this new energy level, the LHC will open new horizons for physics and for future discoveries," said Rolf Heuer, the CERN director-general, in a news release. "I'm looking forward to seeing what nature has in store for us."
The current goal for 2015 is to run with two proton beams so the collider produces 13 TeV collisions - an energy never achieved by any accelerator prior.
