LHC

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LHC

• Facts and figures
• Experiments involved
• Aims
• How it works

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Facts and figures

• 27 Km
• 14 TeV
• High speeds
• Capable of accelerating heavy ions
• 5 main experiments

http//atlas.ch./
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Main experiments

• ALICE
• ATLAS
• CMS
• LHCb
• TOTEM

A Large Ion Collider Experiment
A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS
Compact Muon Solenoid
LHC beauty
TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and
diffraction dissociation
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How it works

• It needs to be in a vacuum
• Magnets keep the beam focused and make it go in a
  circle
• The beams are accelerated by electric fields

http//lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machin
e-outreach/components/magnets.htm
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LHC Tunnel
http//lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machin
e-outreach/images/cern-photos/CE0085M.jpg
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Annimation
http//hands-on-cern.physto.se/ani/acc_lhc_atlas/l
hc_atlas.swf
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Huge scale project

• Involving whole international community
• Projects taken over 10 years planning
• Potential of discovering new physics, that could
  change our future
• Higher speeds, higher energies
• Perhaps new problems to be solved, that as yet
  not even thought of!