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July 5, 2022
A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors started recording high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV
Image above: Celebrations at the CERN control centre (CCC) to mark the start of LHC Run 3 (Image: CERN).
A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors switched on all subsystems and started recording high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, ushering in a new physics season. This feat was made possible thanks to the operators who had worked around the clock since the restart of the LHC in April to ensure the smooth beginning of these collisions with higher-intensity beams and increased energy.
After over three years of upgrade and maintenance work, the LHC is now set to run for close to four years at the record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts (TeV), providing greater precision and discovery potential. Increased collision rates, higher collision energy, upgraded data readout and selection systems, new detector systems and computing infrastructure: all these factors point to a promising physics season that will further expand the already very diverse LHC physics programme!
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The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.
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https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2022/07/cern-lhc-run-3-physics-at-record-energy.html
Related links:
Large Hadron Collider (LHC): https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider
Experiments:
ATLAS: https://home.cern/science/experiments/atlas
CMS: https://home.cern/science/experiments/cms
LHCb: https://home.cern/science/experiments/lhcb
ALICE: https://home.cern/science/experiments/alice
TOTEM: https://home.cern/science/experiments/totem
LHCf: https://home.cern/science/experiments/lhcf
MoEDAL: https://home.cern/science/experiments/moedal
FASER: https://home.cern/science/experiments/faser
SND@LHC: https://snd-lhc.web.cern.ch/
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