RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
June 1, 2015 at 5:54 pm
(June 1, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Alex K Wrote:(June 1, 2015 at 2:56 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: So now they can make those God particles, how many particles have they made and when will "God" be ready for assembly?
The suspense is killing me.
The production cross section of the higgs through the fusing of two gluons, which is the dominant one, was for past energies, roughly 20 picobarns, or 20000 femtobarns. The statistics collected till 2013 was 25 inverse femtobarns. If you multiply, you get roughly 500000 Higgs bosons produced. In 2015 alone, 10 inverse femtobarns are planned, but at 13 TeV the production cross section is 2.4 times larger, so roughly the same # of higgs bosons will be produced.
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I would like to think I mostly understood that.