Large Hadron Collider | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

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Large Hadron Collider


00:02:29 1 Background
00:03:36 2 Purpose
00:06:26 3 Design
00:12:02 3.1 Detectors
00:12:51 3.2 Computing and analysis facilities
00:15:09 4 Operational history
00:16:19 4.1 Construction
00:16:28 4.1.1 Operational challenges
00:17:36 4.1.2 Cost
00:19:43 4.1.3 Construction accidents and delays
00:21:38 4.1.4 Initial lower magnet currents
00:23:01 4.2 Inaugural tests (2008)
00:23:59 4.2.1 Quench incident
00:26:59 4.3 Run 1: first operational run (2009–2013)
00:28:54 4.4 Upgrade (2013–2015)
00:30:22 4.5 Run 2: second operational run (2015–2018)
00:32:12 5 Timeline of operations
00:32:21 6 Findings and discoveries
00:33:16 6.1 First run (data taken 2009–2013)
00:38:55 6.2 Second run (2015 onward)
00:39:56 7 Planned "high-luminosity" upgrade
00:41:01 8 Safety of particle collisions
00:41:55 9 Popular culture
00:43:25 9.1 Fiction
00:44:31 10 See also



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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the world. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference and as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the France–Switzerland border near Geneva. Its first data-taking period lasted from March 2010 to early 2013 at an energy of 3.5 to 4 teraelectronvolts (TeV) per beam (7 to 8 TeV total), about four times the previous world record for a collider and accelerator. Afterwards, the accelerator was taken offline and upgraded over the course of two years. It was restarted in early 2015 for its second research run, reaching 6.5 TeV per beam (13 TeV total, the present world record). At the end of 2018, it entered a second two-year shutdown period.
The aim of the LHC is to allow physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics, including measuring the properties of the Higgs boson and searching for the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetric theories, as well as other unsolved questions of physics.
The collider has four crossing points, around which are positioned seven detectors, each designed for certain kinds of research. The LHC primarily collides proton beams, but it can also use beams of heavy ions. Lead–lead collisions took place in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2018, proton–lead collisions were performed for short periods in 2013 and 2016, and a short run of xenon–xenon collisions took place in 2017.The LHC's computing grid is a world record holder. Data from collisions were produced at an unprecedented rate for the time of first collisions (tens of petabytes per year), a major challenge at the time, to be analysed by a grid-based computer network infrastructure connecting 170 computing centres in 42 countries as of  2017 – by 2012 the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid was also the world's largest distributed computing grid, comprising over 170 computing facilities in a worldwide network across 36 countries.