Armageddon
23-04-2011, 05:04 AM
Already a record holder for mashing protons together at 7 TeV (trillion electron volts), the Large Hadron Collider can now add world's brightest beam to its list of accomplishments. Beam intensity is a way of measuring the number of collisions in its 17-mile-long track, and a higher intensity means more impacts -- which, in turn, means more data, increasing the likelihood that the elusive Higgs boson will rear its head (should such a thing exist). The LHC smashed the previous luminosity record set last year by the Tevatron collider.
Large Hadron Collider smashes beam intensity record, inches closer to discovering God particle -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/22/large-hadron-collider-smashes-beam-intensity-record-inches-clos/)
Large Hadron Collider smashes beam intensity record, inches closer to discovering God particle -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/22/large-hadron-collider-smashes-beam-intensity-record-inches-clos/)