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CERN, LHC Sets New Luminosity World Record

Posted by Soulskill on from the celebrate-by-destroying-a-universe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Since last night, the Large Hadron Collider is officially the most powerful accelerator in the world. While a record energy level had been reached last year, the new luminosity level, surpassing Fermilab's capabilities, is a new achievement. 'Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential,' as CERN Director General Rolf Heuer says."

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  1. Yay. by tnk1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The PR departments must love these releases. The collider is designed to do all this stuff, but they get to release it as an achievement. Yay!

    The next release will be... LHC HAS SPLIT THE ATOM! Yes, gentle folk, the LHC, with it's unprecedented power, has split atoms into their component parts! Who would have thought this day would come? Soon, possibly even later today, the LHC will be able to track the paths of those sub-atomic particles and gain information about what they are!

    Let's hear it for Science!