William Atkins
Monday, 25 August 2008 19:02
Science -
Energy
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The acceleration and collision of the two particle beams at an energy of five tera-electron Volt (5 TeV, or five trillion electron volts) is expected to be first attempted late in 2008.
Now that these counter-clockwise and clockwise tests are finished CERN is expecting to make its first attempt to “circulate a beam” in the LHC on September 10, 2008, at an injection energy of 450 GeV (giga electron volts), or 0.45 TeV.
The event will be Webcast at
http://webcast.cem.ch. For more information, check out “
LHC First Beam.”
When the LHC operational team accomplishes this 5TeV of energy within the 27-kilometer tunnel, the LCH will become operationally the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
In addition, a LHC Grid Fest is scheduled to be held on October 3, 2008. It will be a celebration of the LHC Computing Grid, which is said to be
“a global computing grid designed to handle 15 million gigabytes of LHC-related data every year.”
The Fest will entail presentations, demonstration, tours and other such activities involving the LHC and the CERN Computer Center, located near Geneva, Switzerland.
For additional information about the event, go to “
LHC Grid Fest.”
The LHC, the Standard Model, and the Higgs boson. Please read page three.
