Comments | e_pepys: LHC II

e_pepys

LHC II

Apr 01, 2010 12:36

We only got our first physics data from the LHC on Tuesday, and they are already planning its successor!

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purplecthulhu April 1 2010, 13:09:59 UTC

Heh - we were planning Herschel's successor well before it launched!

e_pepys April 1 2010, 13:41:03 UTC

Oh yes, there is a real LHC upgrade programme. And the International Linear Collider as the next generation machine, but that would need a straight bit of track.

emily_shore April 1 2010, 13:31:07 UTC

It's all very exciting. And you haven't managed to destroy the world yet!

emily_shore April 1 2010, 13:32:43 UTC

(And I just read the article. Yeah. But the physics data is (are?) still exciting.)

e_pepys April 1 2010, 13:46:58 UTC

Yes. On the first day we got twice as much data as all our December test run. We are furiously analysing...

brewsternorth April 1 2010, 14:31:30 UTC

Brilliant!

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zengineer April 1 2010, 14:19:48 UTC

To manage a 7TEv collision a 100 tonne tube train only needs to be going 5x10^-6 m/s so it should also be easy to get your collision energy up.

e_pepys April 1 2010, 15:37:48 UTC

We need to arrange for the train to push a bunch of protons. Oh but...

manylelephants April 2 2010, 12:21:49 UTC

Do you really want CERN shut down for another 18 months due to tube workers' strikes?