LHC reaches 7 TeV Beam Collision

LHC (Large Hadron Collider) the most powerful accelerator and particle smasher exists on earth, On 30 March histroy was made, LHC has made two proton beams collide at energy of 3.5 TeV each, (7 TeV Collision)

To see how powerful and beautiful this machine is, here is some information about it.

Circumference about 27Km.
Number of times a single proton travels around the ring each second is 11245 turn.
Distance covered by beam in 10 hour is ~ 10 billion km (a round trip to Neptune).
Collision temperature ~1E16 C.
Electrical power consumption = ~ 120 MW twice the power generated by the Rolls Royce engine of an Airbus A380 when the plane is at cruising speed.

Experiments of LHC will give more information on particle structure, prove (or disapprove) the standard model superstring and hidden dimensions.

The LHC machine has 4 primary detectors:

ATLAS – This will look for things that will either confirm our understanding of physics or prove we need a new theory. It will try and figure out why things have mass and will study other dimensions if they exist. It might routinely detect micro black holes. Dont worry these black holes will evaporate and cause no harm.

ALICE – This detector will study a form of matter that existed just after the Big Bang. the LHC collisions will create conditions that will be close to the original Big Bang that started the whole universe off. (I’m not interested in that)

CMS – Also a very cool massive detector like ATLAS. It will look for what causes mass and will also look into the stuff called Dark Matter that apparently makes up a very large percentage of everything.

LHCb – This beauty is looking at Antimatter. Where is the Antimatter ? We dont understand why there is not more of it around, so LHCb is gonna explore this issue.

Good Luck LHC.

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