RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
October 13, 2015 at 7:14 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Alex K Wrote:(October 13, 2015 at 11:21 am)Pyrrho Wrote: So, what is the latest news on the Lucifer Hiding Contraption (LHC)?
Not a whole lot from my perspective - data flows more slowly than hoped because the luminosity (more or less the rate of collisions) was somewhat below expectations. There was a slight excess in.the old data which could have pointed to a new very heavy particle, but the significance does not so far increase with the new data...
Why have there been fewer collisions?
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