Hadron collider ready for lengthy run
CERN is set to run its giant particle collider for 18 to 24 months at a modest power level as it continues to check out the machinery.
The Large Hadron Collider is about to enter its longest continuous operational period, in preparation for full-strength particle-smashing.
On Wednesday, Steve Myers, the LHC's director for accelerators and technology, blogged that CERN had decided last week to run the giant particle collider for 18 to 24 months at a collision energy of seven tera-electron-volts (TeV)--or 3.5 TeV per beam--with the powering-up phase starting later this month.
After that, the LHC will "go into a long shutdown in which we'll do all the necessary work to allow us to reach the LHC's design collision energy of 14 TeV for the next run," Myers wrote.
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