Posted on 04/21/2022 6:53:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
[T]he teams at CERN were able to make a number of updates and improvements to the particle accelerator to support new, next-generation science during the scheduled shutdown.
As the most powerful accelerator in the world, the LHC can generate hundreds of millions of particle collisions every second.
Although the LHC has led to new physics research throughout both of its previous, successful runs, teams at CERN hope to push their explorations with the new upgrades implemented during the shutdown.
Included in these improvements, CERN has increased the power of the LHC's injectors, which feed the beams of accelerated particles into the collider. During Run 2, ending in 2018, the collider could accelerate beams of particles up to an energy of 6.5 teraelectronvolts, which has been increased to 6.8 teraelectronvolts, according to a statement from CERN. (A single teraelectronvolt is roughly equal to 1 trillion electron volts (TeV). 1 TeV is roughly equivalent to the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito; this might not seem much, but it's an immense amount of energy for a single proton.)
In order to pull off this significant increase in energy, thousands of superconducting magnets in the LHC, that direct the proton beams, need to "learn" to adjust to stronger currents after being shut of for so long during LS2 [Long Shutdown 2], CERN officials wrote in a statement. It takes about 12,000 individual tests as part of what CERN calls "magnet training" to make this adjustment.
The increase in energy will allow the LHC to pull off even higher energy collisions than before, potentially revealing new insights into how particles behave. In turn, scientists hope to push the Standard Model, the leading scientific theory that describes all known forces and particles in the universe, to better explain puzzles like dark matter and dark energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
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