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03-15-2015, 06:15 PM
Est. start up May 23, 2015: By the end of May, the mighty machine should be calibrated to reach energy levels allowing the long-awaited proton collisions—brief but super-intense smashups recorded in four labs dotted around the ring—to begin.
The collider's previous highest power was 8 TeV reached in 2012, but after the upgrade, it will first reach 13 TeV and can potentially be cranked up to a maximum 14 TeV. Cracks in Standard Model? Firing up the LHC is not like throwing a light switch, Heuer said, stressing the delicacy of the process and pointing out that the two beams that will be shooting around the loop together will have the power to melt a tonne of copper. "We don't want to do that. So we are better off increasing the intensity and the power of the beams step by step," he said. http://phys.org/news/2015-03-cern-revamp...y.html#jCp
The collider's previous highest power was 8 TeV reached in 2012, but after the upgrade, it will first reach 13 TeV and can potentially be cranked up to a maximum 14 TeV. Cracks in Standard Model? Firing up the LHC is not like throwing a light switch, Heuer said, stressing the delicacy of the process and pointing out that the two beams that will be shooting around the loop together will have the power to melt a tonne of copper. "We don't want to do that. So we are better off increasing the intensity and the power of the beams step by step," he said. http://phys.org/news/2015-03-cern-revamp...y.html#jCp