Geneva, 22 April 2011. Around midnight, this night CERN1's Large Hadron Collider set one new world record for beam intensity at a Hadron Collider when it bars with an apparent magnitude of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s 1 collided. This exceeds the previous world record of 4.024 x 1032cm-2s 1, which was by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron Collider set in 2010, and marks an important milestone in LHC commissioning.
"Beam intensity is the key to the success of LHC, this is a very important step," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. "Higher intensity means more data and more discovery more data means potential."
Luminance is a degree of happen how many collisions in a particle accelerator of the University: the higher the star's luminosity, which are more particles likely to collide. In the search for rare processes, this is important. Higgs particles, are produced, for example, very rarely if at all available for a conclusive discovery or refutation of their existence, a large amount of data is required.
The current LHC run is still planned for the end of 2012. Enter the experiments to track time enough data fully accessible with 3.5 TeV per beam collisions of physics before the preparation of the LHC for higher energy run to explore energy. At the end of the current reporting period, we should know, for example if the Higgs boson or does not exist.
"It is very much excitement at the CERN laboratory today," said CERN Director of research and scientific computing, Sergio Bertolucci, "and a tangible feeling that we are on the threshold of new discovery."
After two weeks of preparation of the LHC for this new dimension of the beam intensity moves the machine now in a phase of continuous physics under planned take until the end of the year is in the. There are then a brief technical stop, before physics running CVS for 2012.
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(1) CERN, the European Organization for nuclear research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. Currently, the EU Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have observer status.
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