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[hblask]

[Dogpatch]

The tunnel in the 2nd Death Star?

[ajs510]

Pretty much anything involving CERN is guaranteed to make LLY go interstellar.

[LongLiveYorke]

Now if we could only get that thing working this summer, we'd be in business.

[LongLiveYorke]

So, the beam itself is going to consist of protons. They're going to be spinning around with an energy of 7 TeV (Terra electron volts), which is a heck of a lot. These will come in big bunches of protons. Each bunch will have about 10^11 protons in it. The bunches will collide with each other to cause events. They will collide every 25 nanoseconds.

So, there's going to be a whole hell of a lot of stuff going on in a very short amount of time.

[speedz99]

Go on...

[simo_8ball]

So, the beam itself is going to consist of protons. They're going to be spinning around with an energy of 7 TeV (Terra electron volts), which is a heck of a lot. These will come in big bunches of protons. Each bunch will have about 10^11 protons in it. The bunches will collide with each other to cause events. They will collide every 25 nanoseconds.

So, there's going to be a whole hell of a lot of stuff going on in a very short amount of time.

I don't know why exactly, but I think this is one of my favourite LLY posts.

[LongLiveYorke]

Go on...

But of course none of what I said above means anything unless one considers the cross section for an interaction. In other words, we must consider how often two protons running into each other will actually interact. Taking into account the cross section of p-p interactions and how often two protons run toward each other (based on bunch crossings), we hope to achieve a luminosity of 10^34 1/cm^2 1/s. Luminosity is a measure of how many interactions are taking place in the accelerator per second. 10^34 is a lot.

[ajs510]

But of course none of what I said above means anything unless one considers the cross section for an interaction. In other words, we must consider how often two protons running into each other will actually interact. Taking into account the cross section of p-p interactions and how often two protons run toward each other (based on bunch crossings), we hope to achieve a luminosity of 10^34 1/cm^2 1/s. Luminosity is a measure of how many interactions are taking place in the accelerator per second. 10^34 is a lot.

All this time I thought it had something to do with Angelina Jolie's hair.

[speedz99]

10^34 is a lot.

Yes it is. So what would you expect to happen?

[Yoda]

So if it works..it does what exactly? Blows shit up?

[speedz99]

So if it works..it does what exactly? Blows shit up?

I feel like Dan Brown already covered exactly what will happen.

[Dogpatch]

Can it produce 1.21 Gigawatts?

[hblask]

<br />But of course none of what I said above means anything unless one considers the cross section for an interaction. In other words, we must consider how often two protons running into each other will actually interact. Taking into account the cross section of p-p interactions and how often two protons run toward each other (based on bunch crossings), we hope to achieve a luminosity of 10^34 1/cm^2 1/s. Luminosity is a measure of how many interactions are taking place in the accelerator per second. 10^34 is a lot.<br />

I will never have to look at specbrad's thread again.

[troyomac]

So uhh... what's a proton?

[hblask]

The LHC will explore the leading explanation that mass arises from ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive field of virtual Higgs particles. Were high energy colliding particles to create real Higgs bosons, the Higgs mechanism for mass creation may be bolstered. LHC will also look for micro black holes, magnetic monopoles, and explore the possibility that every type of fundamental particle we know about has a nearly invisible supersymmetric counterpart.

[drcossack]

So uhh... what's a proton?

Proton. If you have any further questions, ask LLY.

[ShakeZuma]

But of course none of what I said above means anything unless one considers the cross section for an interaction. In other words, we must consider how often two protons running into each other will actually interact. Taking into account the cross section of p-p interactions and how often two protons run toward each other (based on bunch crossings), we hope to achieve a luminosity of 10^34 1/cm^2 1/s. Luminosity is a measure of how many interactions are taking place in the accelerator per second. 10^34 is a lot.

duh

[Jadaki]

[donk4life]

Can it produce 1.21 Gigawatts?

Lol how come no one realized the genius in this post.