CERN announces High Luminosity Hadron Collider
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Plans have been set by CERN, since 2011 and came to a close in 2015, to create a High Luminosity Collider. Such an upgrade will see improvements in the frequency of observable sub-atomic particles.
Currently the LHC provides scientists with data that is insufficient to monitor very rare sub-atomic particle interactions.
Science Alert has revealed that the New project will see a Collider that is 80-100km in circumference compared to the 27km version the we know today. Although plans for the High Luminousity Collider are in the final stages, the likelihood is that it will not be completed for another couple of decades. This increase in size will create a greater collision capacity, seeing energies of up to 100 tetra-electron volts.
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The CERN website indicates that key technologies will need to be finalised by scientist and engineers to allow for the creation of the upgrade.
Beam optics – which is the focusing of the beam prior to collision, will be improved to see a more constant flow of particles. This will require the creation of more powerful beam magnets to focus the beam prior to collision and concentrate more sought after particles.
Moreover, as the beams will contain more particles that could damage the Collider – meaning that new collimators will be designed from electromagnetic resistant materials.
Once the CERN upagrade has been created the insights that scientist can gain, from more frequent collisions, will be vastly improved. Allowing us to further understand the sub-atomic nature of how our universe is stringed together.
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