7Tera electron volt

Dritter Versuch klappt

Durchbruch bei Urknall-Simulation

Mit einer enormen Energie knallen im weltgrößten Teilchenbeschleuniger Atomkerne aufeinander. Die Wissenschaftler benötigen drei Versuche, um schließlich den geplanten Rekord von sieben Tera-Elektronenvolt zu erreichen. ...»

At 1200 BST on Tuesday the 30th of March 2010 the LHC successfully smashed two proton particle beams travelling at 3.5 TeV (trillion electron volts), with a resultant force of 7 Tev. However this is just the start of a long road toward the discovery of the [Higgs boson]. This is mainly because the amount of data produced is so huge it could take up to 24 months to completly analyse it all. At the end of the 7 TeV experimental period, the LHC will be shut down for maintenance for up to a year. With the main purpose of this shut down being to strenghten the huge magnets inside the accelerator. When it re-opens, it will attempt to create 14 TeV events.

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