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Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by ljoshua » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 4:55 PM UTC

So is that more or less than 1.21 gigawatts? ;)

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by humanarity » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

zachalexander wrote: post #6

humanarity wrote: post #2

wooooooooooooooooo! congrats :) the screaming electrons live on. :) love that classic HMI screen. Just waiting to read the status line "Organics detected in reactor core." :) haha

What is that a reference to? Google links to here. At first I wondered if it were this (Another World intro, 1991): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4gO9sR7zs

Hahah, it reminded me of a part of the original half-life, I seem to remember that line popping out, even if the words weren't exact, the meaning was. "screaming electrons" connotes for me early BBS culture. Actually there was a BBS with 'screaming electrons' in its name.

That game looks priceless. I'll have to play it. Thanks for the video :)

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by ehmmm » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:02 PM UTC

Weren't they aiming for 7 TeV?

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by humanarity » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

keehun wrote: post #5

Here's the dashboard updated in real-time if this sort of thing fascinates you (as it fascinates me!) http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.ph...

So cool :D

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

hhsnopek wrote: post #10

Could someone explain the significance of this, for those of us that don't know?

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Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by codewithcheese » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

hhsnopek wrote: post #10

Could someone explain the significance of this, for those of us that don't know?

I'm also a particle layman, this article seems informative of whats possible at 6.5 http://scroll.in/article/713144/What-will-we-find-next-insid...?

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by searine » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

hhsnopek wrote: post #10

Could someone explain the significance of this, for those of us that don't know?

After the discovery of the higgs, CERN shut down the LHC and doubled its operating power.

For finer detail of discovery, we need more and more power in the accelerator.

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by krohling » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

hhsnopek wrote: post #10

Could someone explain the significance of this, for those of us that don't know?

The LHC just doubled it's power. While only operating at 50% it discovered several new particles including the Higgs Boson. Now that it's nearing 100% they're hoping to discover physics beyond the Standard Model. That could include things like additional spatial dimensions, Dark Matter, microscopic black holes and more.

TLDR: Hopefully opening the door for some mind blowing discoveries.

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by waterlesscloud » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:10 PM UTC

keehun wrote: post #5

Here's the dashboard updated in real-time if this sort of thing fascinates you (as it fascinates me!) http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.ph...

That's pretty cool. Is there anywhere that explains what it all means?

Re: First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

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Post by xxxyy » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 5:11 PM UTC

ljoshua wrote: post #11

So is that more or less than 1.21 gigawatts? ;)

I started some basic calculations in Google to find out what do you mean. So I converted 6.5 TeV to about 1 microjoule, then typed '1.21 GW / 1 uJ' to find out the beam intensity in particles/second, and realized that the first link is the Wikipedia entry for 'DeLorean time machine'.