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LHC's 'Heart' Starts Pumping Protons Before Restart
astroengine writes: While on its long road to restart, yet another milestone was reached at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the weekend. Protons were generated by the LHC's source and blasted through a "daisy-chain" of smaller accelerators before being intentionally smashed into a metaphorical brick wall. The particle beam didn't reach the LHC's famous 17-mile (27-kilometer) accelerator ring — they were stopped just short — but the event was used to begin calibration efforts of the massive experiment's detectors before the whole system is powered back up again early next year. "These initial tests are a milestone for the whole accelerator chain," said the LHC's chief engineer, Reyes Alemany Fernandez. "Not only was this the first time the injection lines have seen beams in over a year, it was also our first opportunity to test the LHC's operation system. We successfully commissioned the LHC's injection and ejection magnets, all without beam in the machine itself."
I know, right. Also, can we get some Americans in charge of that thing?
Are there Americans under the age of about 35 who have studied enough physics to even know what a particle collider is?
Or you meant put American immigrants in charge of the big toy.
I googled "Proton source", image search, and this popped up:
http://blog.vixra.org/2011/05/29/new-luminosity-record-for-lhc/
At first glance a nice overview. This picture http://vixra.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/proton-source.jpg is your source. See the bottle of hydrogen there? :)
It says "Linac 2" in the background, the first accelerator at Cern, for protons.
Ionizing hydrogen DOES break apart the molecules. The molecules are held together by their electrons, removing those breaks the bond.
Not a sentence!