
Gradually the scientists are taking the hang around operating the LHC particle accelerator complex (stands for Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider in English or LHC ). And so, after reaching the barrier of 7 TeV, CERN just announced this morning that the LHC set a new world record energy in its beams.
The milestone came at 00:38 EST this morning when two beams of protons from 4 TeV each, circulating in opposite directions by the circular duct of the machine collided creating a record in the collision energy of 8 TeV -no Another experiment had never reached this magnitude. In the words of Steve Myers, the director of CERN Accelerators and Technology:
The experience of two good years of operation at 3.5 TeV per beam gave us the confidence to increase energy this year without any significant risk to the machine.
According to the organization, although the increase is modest collision energy, the new brand resulting in a greater discovery potential of LHC which can be several times higher for certain hypothetical particles, such as predicted by super symmetry . Or otherwise explained, with the advance increases the chances of discovering new particles today still theoretical since it is expected that higher energy occur more of them.
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