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    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 17-mile long particle accelerator located near Geneva, Switzerland. It contains over 1,600 superconducting magnets that are used to accelerate beams of protons and lead ions to extremely high energies and collide them inside four detectors. The LHC was created to help answer fundamental questions about physics, such as the existence of the Higgs boson and the nature of dark matter. When operational, it works by accelerating two beams of particles in opposite directions around the circular accelerator before forcing them to collide inside the detectors. While some speculated it posed safety risks like creating black holes, scientists determined the risks were minimal and similar events happen naturally. An electrical fault caused it to shut down

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    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 17-mile long particle accelerator located near Geneva, Switzerland. It contains over 1,600 superconducting magnets that are used to accelerate beams of protons and lead ions to extremely high energies and collide them inside four detectors. The LHC was created to help answer fundamental questions about physics, such as the existence of the Higgs boson and the nature of dark matter. When operational, it works by accelerating two beams of particles in opposite directions around the circular accelerator before forcing them to collide inside the detectors. While some speculated it posed safety risks like creating black holes, scientists determined the risks were minimal and similar events happen naturally. An electrical fault caused it to shut down

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    What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)? The world's largest particle accelerator

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    Lim Xiu Xian
    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 17-mile long particle accelerator located near Geneva, Switzerland. It contains over 1,600 superconducting magnets that are used to accelerate beams of protons and lead ions to extremely high energies and collide them inside four detectors. The LHC was created to help answer fundamental questions about physics, such as the existence of the Higgs boson and the nature of dark matter. When operational, it works by accelerating two beams of particles in opposite directions around the circular accelerator before forcing them to collide inside the detectors. While some speculated it posed safety risks like creating black holes, scientists determined the risks were minimal and similar events happen naturally. An electrical fault caused it to shut down

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    What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?

    The
    Large
    Hadron
    Collider
    http://www.lhc.ac.uk/

    What is it made out of?


    The Large Hadron Collider
    contains:
    2 adjacent parallel beams
    1232 dipole magnets
    392 quadrupole magnets
    1,600 superconducting
    magnets
    96 tons of liquid helium
    for temperature
    maintenance purposes

    The LHC is a very large


    particle accelerator,
    roughly 17 miles long
    and finished on
    September 10th, 2008.
    Its primary function is
    to use electric fields to
    force charged particles
    to move at very high
    speeds and still keep
    them under control.

    Why was it created?


    Questions that need to be answered:

    What is the Higgs Boson?


    How many dimensions are there in the universe?
    Is the string theory real?
    What is dark matter?
    What happened the instant after the Big Bang?

    How does it work?

    In simplest terms, the LHC works by forcing two


    beams of atomic particles to travel in opposite
    directions surrounding the physical LHC itself. Once
    these beams reach their maximum speed, the LHC
    forces them to collide in four places on their path.
    These collisions create new particles and energy,
    allowing physicists to use the detectors in the LHC to
    observe much about the basic structure of our world.

    Safety risk?
    There had been much
    speculation that the LHC was
    unsafe because it could produce
    microscopic black holes,
    strangelets, vacuum bubbles or
    magnetic monopoles.
    are highly unrealistic and the
    truth is really that nothing the
    already been done constantly
    by nature, so the risk was not
    nearly as large as people feared.

    What went wrong with it?


    The reason behind the
    inability of the LHC to be
    appropriately followed
    through with as anticipated
    on September 19th was an
    electrical fault between two
    magnets which caused an
    arc, making the helium
    leak. Once the outer layer
    of the helium broke, it
    flooded the area, breaking
    10-ton magnets and
    covering the tubes of
    proton with soot.

    Overview and future outlook


    It is clear that the LHC has a
    very good chance to answer a lot
    of meaningful questions
    regarding physics and the
    nature of our universe.
    It has many scientific functions
    and it is quite possible that by
    the time it is launched again in
    October of 2009, it will be able
    to successfully demonstrate to
    the physicists currently
    observing it many important
    things about our universe.

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