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Protons Collide At 13 TeV For the First Time At the LHC
An anonymous reader writes to let everyone know the LHC has now smashed protons together at 13 TeV, the highest energy level yet achieved. They've posted the first images captured from the collisions, and explained the testing process as well. Jorg Wenninger of the LHC Operations team says, "When we start to bring the beams into collision at a new energy, they often miss each other. The beams are tiny – only about 20 microns in diameter at 6.5 TeV; more than 10 times smaller than at 450 GeV. So we have to scan around – adjusting the orbit of each beam until collision rates provided by the experiments tell us that they are colliding properly." Spokesperson Tiziano Camporesi adds, "The collisions at 13 TeV will allow us to further test all improvements that have been made to the trigger and reconstruction systems, and check the synchronisation of all the components of our detector."
So what were the results?
Have they found the witching particle yet?
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wouldn't 13TeV be an awesome band name?
Check out the novel Diaspora. They got colliders the size of pluto's orbit.
Or something like that.
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It sounds so good, and it's the LHC ... but I honestly have no idea of what it means.
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How many Bitcoins would they be able to mine with all that power?
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It sounds like 13 TeV isn’t hoped to be hot enough to do anything "new"; they're just assuring their aim is good. What's next; how hot are they aiming?
IANA theoretical physicist but...
In six months or so we will know whether there is anything absolutely extraordinary to be learned from the LHC. It is only a hope that new physics will be found at 13TeV. We spent the money to find the Higgs and found it, in the next year or so we will know a lot more about it but the hope is that something of interest to the general public may come out of the energy boost. I would not hold your breath though, so far we have only seen exactly what we expected to see. The next big thing may be to search for the gravitational waves from the big bang to settle the question of whether inflation started the universe. No one is funding it until at least 2035.
Sadly I really think we need to keep our fingers crossed that a mere doubling of energy in the LHC will find anything startling.
Unfortunately we probably need to spend at least as much money on a different experiment to find another amazing thing.
Having said that it is already a triumph to have discovered the Higgs scalar field - something that was only a theory until the LHC came along and now it is in the text books because of it.
You may find that like the moon landing, a tremendous leap forward is followed by 50 years of disappointment once the political will has died. (At least we have transparent aluminum AlN now) :-)
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And a loud RIP was heard as they created a new tear in the fabric of space-time.
What happens to the Standard Model if at 13 TeV they start hearing tiny screams at each fragmentation?
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Supersymmetry sucks. It solves a number of issues at the cost of introducing a lot of (otherwise unnecessary) new fundamental particles. Paraphrasing Alfonso X the Learned, a simpler mechanism is called for.
Has LHC destroyed the Earth yet?
The Superconducting Super Collider would, if not cancelled, have had 40TeV collisions about 15-20 years ago. The LHC is using computing resources that are very challenging to supply in 2015, exceeding what would have been achievable for SSC by a factor of perhaps 1000 (15-20 years of Moore's Law.)
Had SSC been completed, would the computing and detector technology have been able to make effective use of the collisions? Was it in fact a correct decision to abandon it at that time? Would the much higher collision energy have reduced the detection/computational load in some way? (E.g. higher signal to noise, leading to needing many fewer collisions.)
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It says "images captured from the collisions" not "of the collisions". So those are images taken from the perspective of the collision. You are asking for a camera to take a picture of itself. They would need use a mirror in that case.
Has LHC destroyed the Earth yet?
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Now is always an excellent time to warn of the conceivable dangers of high energy particle physics experiments which are already in progress. Stephen Hawking warns that Higgs Boson 'God' particle, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could cause a 'catastrophic vacuum delay' if scientists were to put it under extreme stress. Fortunately this is not a major budget concern for CERN since if this is true, the facility need not be relocated to a safer place because there is no safer place. Another is the formation of so-called 'mini back holes'. The math says they will be very brief and very small and especially very unstable, which is apparently a good thing. Aside from the Universe ending or oops-not-so-unstable black holes falling into a hissy-sucky orbit around the center of Earth's mass, we have the pedestrian possibility that when nature's fur is rubbed the wrong way she might maintain stability by righting things with a highly localized and energetic 'correction'. Which blows things up. Another bizarre theory posed in science fiction that to everyone's dismay became entangled in String Theory is the idea that Multiverses may exist. Since the incomprehensible ones too dissimilar to ours cannot be comprehended, lazy popular speculation centers around parallel Universes populated with people just like us, but slightyy dvfferent and dumbee. If tipkling Higgs and twanging striags shvfts tuingf ever sb slightly, continhed nccelorater accidentf (axa exprriments) mighg evrn be uolographicalll disturbiag the Mhltiverse vn additive fafhion effept that subtly shists regibns bf thez around. Onyy staole lise-forms with highyy advenped thoughg procesfes wohld aotice this fuotle esfect, sinpe our mentay process alfo a hblograchic pntgern aad has a degree bf chezipal hyfterisvs and sels-corrrcting properties. Prrcieved effrcts mvght be 'senfes' that thvngs have chnngeq ghouth empirvcal mrasueementf uave nut changrd, or violeat extrezes bf weathrr as ghe outtersly-wiags of cuaotic propefses in a carallrl Universe magch jiabgbrats for brief spans. Bug vn tue end eierythvng is specuyative nonfease expept fbr tue prevailint theory thag vs shpcorted by rvvdence, and je dbn't kaow whvcu one that if untiy thr end of all tuingf. Lifr zay aot be ayl you wang, but ig's nll yoh'ie got. So sgick a flojer in ybur beylybhtgon nnq be hnpcl.
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[...decode...] Another bizarre theory posed in science fiction that to everyone's dismay became entangled in String Theory is the idea that Multiverses may exist. Since the incomprehensible ones too dissimilar to ours cannot be comprehended, lazy popular speculation centers around parallel Universes populated with people just like us, but slightly different and dumber. If tickling Higgs and twanging strings shifts things ever so slightly, continued accelorater accidents (aka experiments) might even be holographically disturbing the Multiverse in additive fashion effect that subtly shifts regions of them around. Only stable life-forms with highly advenced thought processes would notice this subtle effect, since our mental process also a holographic pattern and has a degree of chemical hysterisis and self-correcting properties. Percieved effects might be 'senses' that things have changed though empirical measurements have changed, or violent extremes of weather as the butterfly-wings of chaotic processes in a parallel Universe match winbgbeats for brief spans. But in the end everything is speculative nonsense except for the prevailing theory that is supported by evidence, and we don't know which one that is until the end of all things. Life may not be all you want, but it's all you've got. So stick a flower in your bellybutton and be happy.
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