Large Hadron Rap (The LHC) (detector, physics, hardware, computer)

[delusianne]

"Two beams of protons swing 'round, through the ring they ride
'Til in the hearts of the detectors, they're made to collide"


YouTube - Large Hadron Rap

lyrics: https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html

[dynimagelv]

189,500 mph x2 =371800 mph at point of impact....now THAT is gonna be a BIG bang.

[jabm67]

Just in case you are worrying about this , here's a site where you can check.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

[coosjoaquin]

You can actually watch the LHC working live right here:

lhc

[WillysB]

Originally Posted by coosjoaquin

You can actually watch the LHC working live right here:

lhc

Dude, where's my car ? ? ?

[Gue]

Geneva, 30 March 2010. Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.
“It’s a great day to be a particle physicist,” said CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer. “A lot of people have waited a long time for this moment, but their patience and dedication is starting to pay dividends.”

These world record-breaking collisions have taken place with a total energy of 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) and not the maximum of 14 TeV (7 TeV per beam) that the LHC was actually designed for. The 14 TeV collisions are scheduled for 2012 IIRC.

[gy2020]

Big loss for Texas. The property was already purchased to build the excellerator around Dallas back in the 1980's. Lost federal funding. Europe's gain!

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by gy2020

Big loss for Texas. The property was already purchased to build the excellerator around Dallas back in the 1980's. Lost federal funding. Europe's gain!

The SSC was a flawed design that was in serious trouble when it was cancelled. I know because I had a piece of the project and lost a $750,000 grant to work on one of the technical problems. The project was originally budgeted to cost 5 billion dollars and see its first beam in 1999. The machine was huge being 57 miles in circumference in a tunnel being dug south of Dallas and the main HQ based in the town of Waxahatchie. By the time it was cancelled in 1994 the budget had ballooned to 20 billion dollars and no hardware had been built. Most of the 57 mile tunnel had been built and was abandonned in place when the the US government and state of Texas couldn't find a use for it. Working on the SSC was a team from the European lab CERN, they were privy to all the problems and when they decided to build the LHC in 1995 SSC's lessons learned were taken into account in the LHC's design. Europe learned from our mistakes and didn't make them. So a little bit of SSC's spirit is in that machine. The USA became a partner in LHC and built some of it. Data from LHC goes to three computer centers one in Europe at CERN, the second in Japan at KEK and the third at Brookhaven National
Lab (Long Island, USA). About 2000 American scientists are working with LHC.

[gy2020]

Originally Posted by mwruckman

The SSC was a flawed design that was in serious trouble when it was cancelled. I know because I had a piece of the project and lost a $750,000 grant to work on one of the technical problems. The project was originally budgeted to cost 5 billion dollars and see its first beam in 1999. The machine was huge being 57 miles in circumference in a tunnel being dug south of Dallas and the main HQ based in the town of Waxahatchie. By the time it was cancelled in 1994 the budget had ballooned to 20 billion dollars and no hardware had been built. Most of the 57 mile tunnel had been built and was abandonned in place when the the US government and state of Texas couldn't find a use for it. Working on the SSC was a team from the European lab CERN, they were privy to all the problems and when they decided to build the LHC in 1995 SSC's lessons learned were taken into account in the LHC's design. Europe learned from our mistakes and didn't make them. So a little bit of SSC's spirit is in that machine. The USA became a partner in LHC and built some of it. Data from LHC goes to three computer centers one in Europe at CERN, the second in Japan at KEK and the third at Brookhaven National
Lab (Long Island, USA). About 2000 American scientists are working with LHC.

Thanks for that info. I didn't know the details. Instead of being 20 b. it might have balooned to 50 or 100 b. before it was complete.

[Gue]

Nice to know some of the scientific information is being evaluated down the road from me!

Now if I could just get DD a job there...