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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 3, 2016 at 11:49 am
(May 21, 2015 at 11:56 am)Alex K Wrote: ]
Well, the collider is located in a 27 kilometer long circular tunnel 100 meters under ground. I'm pretty sure that more than a bit of rock crushing occurred when it was dug out in the 80s.
Yikes! In my novel, the evil mage has his collider on a table in his laboratory. will that be a problem?
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 3, 2016 at 1:12 pm
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(August 3, 2016 at 11:49 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 11:56 am)Alex K Wrote: ]
Well, the collider is located in a 27 kilometer long circular tunnel 100 meters under ground. I'm pretty sure that more than a bit of rock crushing occurred when it was dug out in the 80s.
Yikes! In my novel, the evil mage has his collider on a table in his laboratory. will that be a problem? It depends on how much energy you need. If electron pair creation is all you need, a desktop device with tech from 1950 is enough. If you need to make Higgs bosons which requires almost a million times more juice and the like it's more difficult to achieve in a small device. In that case you can read a bit about wakefield acceleration, it can reach huge energies on short distances.
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 8:03 am
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![[Image: CpBR8UqWEAAZ4iI.jpg]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpBR8UqWEAAZ4iI.jpg)
The new data taken in 2016 independently confirm the existence of the Higgs boson. Here's one of the several channels, the one of its decay via Z bosons, from one of the experiments (just to say that the combined evidence from all experiments and ways the Higgs can decay will be much stronger. The data point + error bar at the 125 mark is it. The peak at the 90 mark is the Z boson.
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 8:51 am
(August 3, 2016 at 10:36 am)Alex K Wrote: Allright! Today, the long-awaited week-long ICHEP conference kicks off with talks on the record-breaking data taken by the LHC experiments this year, dwarfing the performance of the machine of the past years. Is there a groundbreaking discovery in there? People suspect not, because such things would usually have been announced in a special seminar at CERN before the conference. But who knows, maybe there are some exciting developments after all. Stay tuned!
This is, quite seriously, going to be the reason why I wake up early. I want to know!!!
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 10:11 am
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The results everyone was waiting for - what does the 2016 dataset have to say about that fluctuation at a mass of 750 GeV which could have ushered in a new era in fundamental physics if it was really from a new Boson?
![[Image: CpGcJbdWcAArzaJ.jpg]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpGcJbdWcAArzaJ.jpg)
The blue line @750 is what got everyone excited last year, the red line is the 2016 data that got presented roughly 1 minute ago. As flat as Holland. Black smoke rises over the CERN chapel, non habemus bosonum.
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 11:15 am
Oh...boy.... :/
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 11:16 am
Okay, I don't understand any of this.
Is that a bad thing?
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 11:18 am
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 11:35 am
(August 5, 2016 at 11:16 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Okay, I don't understand any of this.
Is that a bad thing?
They lost their boson...
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 11:38 am
(August 5, 2016 at 11:35 am)pocaracas Wrote: (August 5, 2016 at 11:16 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Okay, I don't understand any of this.
Is that a bad thing?
They lost their boson...
So..I'm thinking...bad?
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