Each beam of protons had an energy of 6.8 trillion electronvolts.
, head of LHC beam operation section and LHC machine coordinator. Beams should start colliding within a couple of months, he says.The LHC broke its first record in 2009, just after it began operation. The beam of protons was accelerated to an energy of just over 1 TeV, beating out Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator near Chicago, Illinois.
"Then one year later, we pushed to 3.5 TeV," Wenninger says. After setting yet another record, LHC was shut down for maintenance and to consolidate some of the magnets that control the proton beams."This allowed us in 2015 to reach 6.5 TeV, again a new world record," he says. That satisfied the particle physicists who rely on LHC data for three years.
“The machines and facilities underwent major upgrades during the second long shutdown of CERN’s accelerator complex,” says, Director for Accelerators and Technology at CERN, the organization that runs the accelerator. “The LHC itself has undergone an extensive consolidation programme and will now operate at an even higher energy and, thanks to major improvements in the injector complex, it will deliver significantly more data to the upgraded LHC experiments.
During Run 3, each of the collider's two general-purpose detectors — ATLAS and the CMS — will monitor more collisions than they did during the first two runs put together. The capacity of other instruments has increased by as much as a factor of 50. Researchers across the world will use that data to peerGET YOUR DAILY NEWS DIRECTLY IN YOUR INBOX
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