CERN Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider for $1.5B Upgrade
The $1.5 billion overhaul will rebuild the ATLAS and CMS detectors and raise collision rates by a factor of 10, CERN said.
- On Monday, the Large Hadron Collider began a planned 47-month shutdown, marking its longest hiatus to date to undergo major overhauls of the ATLAS and CMS detectors.
- Scientists designed the upgrade to increase the collision rate by a factor of 10, enabling the facility to collect up to 100 times more data on the Higgs boson particle.
- Canadian researchers at the TRIUMF particle accelerator centre at the University of British Columbia are producing 1,500 petals representing 20 percent of the ATLAS inner tracker to reconstruct particle trajectories.
- Hoping to produce two Higgs bosons simultaneously for the first time, the project aims to deepen fundamental knowledge about how the Universe evolved after the Big Bang.
- Scheduled to return online in 2030, the refurbished LHC will cost approximately $1.5 billion; CERN confirmed the upgraded facility will remain safe while continuing its physics exploration mission.
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The European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced a four-year scheduled stop of the Great Hadron Collider (BAC).
A major upgrade is coming: the high-luminosity LHC is scheduled to start operating in 2030.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) underground on the Swiss-French border was shut down on Monday morning. The planned shutdown of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) facility in Geneva, Switzerland, is to allow for further upgrades. With stronger magnets and detectors, the accelerator is expected to be back in operation in 2030 under the name HiLumi-LHC.
World's Most Powerful Collider Shuts Down for a Smashing Upgrade
Europe's CERN physics research center bids 'Farewell' to the Large Hadron Collider, but it's actually more like 'See You Later, Accelerator!' The new, improved High-Luminosity LHC is due to make its debut in 2030.
Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor
The end has come for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but it’s not being turned off for fear of the world being sucked into some sort of cosmic anomaly - it’s getting a major upgrade. Physicists at CERN are still bidding goodbye to the LHC, per a Monday announcement from the lab, but this is very much a “the king is dead, long live the king” sort of moment, as the four-year shutdown will result in the completion of the High-Luminosity LHC, or…
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