LHC upgrade to open up 'new realm of particle physics'

[hue]

Source: BBC News Science

Engineers have begun a major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Their work should double the energy of what's already the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.

BBC News is the first to be allowed to see inside the LHC - on the French-Swiss border - to watch the work being carried out.

Scientists believe the upgrade will enable them to discover new particles which will lead to a more complete theory of how the Universe works.

A project leader with the LHC's Atlas experiment, Dr Pippa Wells told BBC News that there was much more to come from the LHC.

"The past two years have been the most exciting in my time as a particle physicist. People are absolutely fired up. They've made one new discovery (the Higgs) and they want to make more discoveries with the new high energies that the upgrade will give us. We could find a new realm of particle physics".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21941666

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more physics is yet to come....

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. Recced!

[formercia]

2. Now, if they could only create a Black Hole.

Just think of the possibilities.

[GodlessBiker]

3. And contain it within a simple refrigerator, so that almost anyone could have one.

[formercia]

4. It would make a great Garbage Disposal.

I'm sure the Mafia could use one too.

[GodlessBiker]

6. And totally organic.

[Duer 157099]

8. I am thinking about them

I'd put a door on it with a sign that says "Meet The Most Generous Lobbyists! Inside Here!" and put it outside of Congress.

[n2doc]

5. While the US sits this one out

Maybe someday we will stop killing people long enough to fund science adequately again. Maybe not.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. They're smashing particles. We're smashing countries.

They win.

[Myrina]

12. Smashing countries & obliterating people is much more favorable to the Christofascists than

.... smashing atoms in pursuit of scientific knowledge ....

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Yep.

[hue]

9. I'm hoping for the International Linear Collider (ILC) proposed for Japan as a stimulus project!!

It'll take about a dozen years before it would be able to preform collisions but the info would be incredible!!!

[Poll_Blind]

10. If it doesn't give them a "new realm" of particle physics, they may be up a creek.

More reading in Life After the Higgs. If you read the whole article in the OP, the article I link to expands on the uncertainty present in "Where to go next?" portion, near the end of it.

PB

[antiquie]

11. Here are links to Cern and their bulletin.

http://home.web.cern.ch/
http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2013/12/News%20Articles/?ln=en

How you can participate at home (Boinc):
http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/