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CERN is firing up its Large Hadron Collider at record energy levels, in search of dark matter
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cern-is-firing-up-its-large-hadron-collider-at-record-energy-levels-in-search-of-dark-matter/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=%7B%24external_id%7D&mid=%7B%24MESSAGE_ID%7D&cid=%7B%24contact_id%7D ^ | July 5, 2022 | Liam Tung

Posted on 07/05/2022 3:44:04 PM PDT by dennisw

CERN lights up the Large Hadron Collider for Run 3, a four year continuous run after its second long shutdown in 2018.

The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is back in action after a three year break for maintenance and an upgrade with more energy, higher intensity beams and greater precision.

The LHC at CERN, outside of Geneva, is set to run 24/7 for nearly four years at a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts. The upgrades should give LHC tools greater precision and allow for more particle collisions, brighter light and more discovery about particles in quantum field theory.

CERN used the LHC to discover the Higgs boson on July 4, 2012, before its first long shutdown. Back then, under LHC "Run 1", the LHC was operating at 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeVs). Run 2 occurred between 2015 and 2018 with proton beams colliding 13 TeVs before the second long shutdown. Now it's time for Run 3 at 13.6 TeVs or 6.8 TeV per beam.

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Rende Steerenberg, Head of the Operations Group in the LHC beams department, said that with 6.8 TeV for Run 3 it wants to push LHC up to "140 billion particles per package or per bunch." From 2023 onwards, it wants to increase this to 180 billion particles per packet. "This will of course give us many, many more collisions in the experiments."

An electronvolt is a measure of kinetic energy gained by an electron accelerating from rest. Hence the need for accelerator like LHC with its 27km circumference, which accelerates hadron particles (such as lead, xenon and oxygen ions at different levels of the mass spectrum) in a way that forms two beams traveling in opposite directions, almost at the speed of light. The beams collide in the machine at four points or "detectors" called ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LGCb, each of which focusses on measuring different types of hadron particles.

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It's the Higgs boson particle (or wave in quantum field theory) that's thought to give mass to the particles that form the basis of stars, planets and everything. When two electrons interact, for example, they exchange particles of light or photons that are the "force carriers" of an electromagnetic interaction, CERN explains.

The updated LHC will be able to create "stable beams", a condition allowing scientists to switch on all their subsystems for experiments and begin taking data.

"We will be focusing the proton beams at the interaction points to less than 10 micron beam size, to increase the collision rate," says CERN's director for accelerators and technology, Mike Lamont.

"Compared to Run 1, in which the Higgs was discovered with 12 inverse femtobarns, now in Run 3 we will be delivering 280 inverse femtobarns1. This is a significant increase, paving the way for new discoveries."

CERN says it expects the ATLAS and CMS detectors to record more collisions during Run 3 than in the two previous runs combined.

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The LHCb experiment underwent a complete revamp and looks to increase its data taking rate by a factor of ten, while ALICE is aiming for a fifty-fold increase in the number of recorded collisions.

Scientists hope to answers questions about the origin of the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe and search for candidates for dark matter.

"We're looking forward to measurements of the Higgs boson decay to second-generation particles such as muons. This would be an entirel


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To: dennisw

The extinction level meteor didn’t happen, so it’s time to do it ourselves. S/


21 posted on 07/05/2022 4:48:22 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: dennisw

THAT is some evil stuff. Watch there videos.


22 posted on 07/05/2022 4:50:29 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: dennisw
"...search for candidates for dark matter."

What a crock!
LHC spokespeople are definitely trained in the same con-artist theology as those nefarious Nigerian princes...

23 posted on 07/05/2022 4:53:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: dennisw

They are really trying to open a portal to other demonic realms, as displayed by their 2016 (?) opening ceremony where they had humans bowing down to a Goat God.

But we’ll go with “dark matter.”


24 posted on 07/05/2022 4:56:42 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: dennisw

Has Homer Simpson been consulted on this next start-up?


25 posted on 07/05/2022 5:25:09 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: dennisw

Those fools are going to blow up the world.....


26 posted on 07/05/2022 5:33:55 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Murrill McLean Award, for cowardice by a Policeman, shooting of 12 lb. Mini-Dachshund. Danville, VA)
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To: Flick Lives

There is another model of the universe that is not based on gravity. The physicists at Los Alamos have alot information posted on the electric universe model. The main thing about the model is that it works, and doesn’t require dark matter or any other force that cannot be found or measured.


27 posted on 07/05/2022 5:41:42 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: dennisw
Just hope that duct tape holds


28 posted on 07/05/2022 6:00:46 PM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Grandad Spokeshave)
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To: Flick Lives

So. They’ve been looking for a black cat in a dark coal bin that turns out is not actually there.


29 posted on 07/05/2022 6:17:15 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: dennisw

Isn’t this where the CERN physicists accidentally produces a micro black hole that then devours the planet?


30 posted on 07/05/2022 6:21:01 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: LS

Yeah, this has got me spooked. Same as all the vaxxxs and boosters. None for me, I don’t eat at their table.


31 posted on 07/05/2022 7:37:10 PM PDT by dennisw (Your input )
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To: LS
trying to open a portal to other demonic realms

the lens at the controversial observatory in the Graham Mountains is called Lucifer

the enemy does not even hide its intent anymore

32 posted on 07/05/2022 7:51:51 PM PDT by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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To: SisterK

check out the demonic statue at CERN and the demonic ceremonies that they’ve held there. They are up to something for sure, and it’s not good.


33 posted on 07/05/2022 9:18:59 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

RE: Messing with molecules and the atmosphere while trying to create “portals”. What could go wrong?

The Eleventh Hour S17 #11 - Robin D. Bullock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um750KN_wA0


34 posted on 07/06/2022 9:05:43 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed the nation who se GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: imabadboy99

I first heard about CERN maybe 15 years ago and that it was demonic then.
BTW
Inside the UN building in NY is a “chapel” dedicated to Lucifer.
Under the Denver airport are a bunch of satanic murals.

Even if people do not believe in God or Jesus - the enemy believes, worships and makes sacrifices to the devil.
The spiritual war is real.


35 posted on 07/06/2022 1:47:28 PM PDT by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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To: LS

The CERN opening ceremony was super weird.


36 posted on 07/08/2022 4:16:30 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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