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LHC sets new energy record, full power still year away
November 30th, 2009
LHC sets new energy record, full power still year away
The excitement in the particle physics community is palpable at the moment, with a regular stream of tweets emitting from CERN. In the latest news, the large Hadron collider (LHC) reported that it had reached 1.18TeV with its beams, the highest energy ever recorded for an Earth-bound particle accelerator.
The unexciting news is that we are all still here, and (barring a meteor strike) we will still be here when the LHC reaches 7.5TeV very late next year. In the meantime, what can we expect during the build-up? According to Lynn Evans, the operators of the LHC are taking it very slowly this time, having become a bit paranoid about little things like resistance building in the brazed joints between magnets. One reason for this caution is that not every sector of the LHC was brought back up to room temperature, which means that extra pressure relief valves have not yet been installed on the whole machine yet—that will have to wait until the next maintenance period.
Posted in Arstechnica | 
Tags: Accelerator, Beams, Brazed Joints, Caution, Cern, Excitement, Extra Pressure, Hadron Collider, Highest Energy, Large Hadron, Lynn Evans, Magnets, Maintenance Period, Meteor Strike, New Energy, Particle Accelerator, Particle Physics Community, Pressure Relief Valves, Room Temperature, Tweets | 
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