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Large Hadron Collider ready to fire up...

I seem to recall a discussion on here regarding the LHC at CERN and the Atlas experiment in particular�looks like the wait is over.


World's largest particle accelerator fires up
U of T physicists part of international team
By Kim Luke, posted Wednesday, September 3, 2008
On Sept. 10, an international team of scientists that includes members from U of T's Department of Physics will fire up a machine that they believe will answer some fundamental questions about the structure of the universe.

The highly anticipated $8-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located under ground at the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator as well as the most complex science experiment ever developed. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, developed 30 years ago, which still provides the theoretical picture for particle physics.

"The Standard Model has allowed us to understand the behaviour of the minute particles that make up matter," said Professor Robert Orr of physics. The predictions of the model have held up well to experimental scrutiny so far. However, the Standard Model only makes sense if a particle called the Higgs Boson exists. The Higgs has proven elusive to physicists but is essential to the model because it explains why other particles exhibit the mass they do. The LHC may also reveal the solution to the puzzle of the mysterious dark matter which dominates the universe, Orr added.

"Given that the Higgs has not been seen at lower energy accelerators, we are pretty confident that the LHC is the first particle accelerator that is powerful enough to reveal the Higgs particle," he said.

The LHC project involves some 8,000 physicists from over 85 countries and hundreds of universities and laboratories. U of T's role is focused on a sophisticated experiment known as ATLAS (A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS). The 7,000-tonne assembly, parts of which were built at U of T, tracks and measures the energy of particles emerging from the proton collisions in the LHC: particles that could be fragments of the elusive Higgs Boson. The ATLAS project involves 2,200 physicists from 37 countries worldwide. In addition to Orr, who is the Toronto team leader, members of the U of T team include David Bailey, Peter Krieger, Pekka Sinervo, Pierre Savard, Richard Teuscher and William Trischuk.

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So when will we finish the rest of it?

Stolen from cracked

Very exciting, in both good and bad senses. Exciting nonetheless.

i thought you said a Large Hardon Collider....

I just hope they don't make a black hole that sucks up all existence i kinda like being alive.

I'm counting on dragons spilling out of a hole ripped in space and time

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Originally posted by jennypie

Magnificent

I hope you found it otherwise you have waaaay too much time on your hands lady

LoL, yes I found it.



edit: Lolcockzcockzcockzcockzcockzcockzcockzcockz

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Originally posted by chinamon i thought you said a Large Hardon Collider....

Sounds like you and Benny walking around on the Skybar...

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Originally posted by VDub Sounds like you and Benny walking around on the Skybar...

bahahhaa
jealous? i know you are!

I hope the odds of something REALLY bad happening don't actually come through.
Cool if they find what they're looking for though.

well a few more hours until we are sucked and smooshed into a hardon collision

2 hardon's colliding simultaneously at the speed of light: The results would be so nasty it would turn barbina straight.

heh anyone notice google's logo today

http://www.google.ca/

Yep, I certainly did

I am so excited to know some of the results!

Gordon Freeman is on standby.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Gordon Freeman is on standby.

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Originally posted by English Rachel Yep, I certainly did I am so excited to know some of the results!

I think we'll have to wait some months before we get anything concrete. By the time they analyze the data, etc.

From the relevant WIKI page:

The first beam was circulated through the collider on 10 September 2008 and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled on 21 October 2008....The first beam was circulated through the collider on the morning of 10 September 2008...CERN successfully fired the protons around the tunnel in stages, several kilometres at a time. The particles were fired in a clockwise direction into the accelerator and successfully steered around it at 10:28 am local time...The LHC successfully completed its first major test: after a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen showing the protons traveled the full length of the Collider. CERN next plans to send a beam of protons in a counterclockwise direction, and eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of smashing together protons to create particles from the energy of the proton collisions...It took less than one hour to guide the stream of particles around its inaugural circuit.

so... the main worry hasn't happened yet

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH I think we'll have to wait some months before we get anything concrete. By the time they analyze the data, etc.

Yep, around Christmas they have said - well that's when they plan to collide the protons.

I am still super excited about everything we will learn from this.

lol $5 billion later...

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