Cristoforo Colombo was looking for India and found America. LHC is looking for Supersymmetry and may find something else. Adelante, adelante las naves!
Tullio

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Cristoforo Colombo was looking for India and found America. LHC is looking for Supersymmetry and may find something else. Adelante, adelante las naves!
Tullio

Hopefully they can find my car keys

A beam has circulated today for the first time after 2 years..
Tullio

I heard on the local radio here yesterday they will try to unravel more mysteries around the cosmos. Not really at ease but as Chris says, we will see..

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Chris and Julie, you are right. They don't know what they will find and this makes the search more exciting. I am taking part in it with three BOINC projects and have taken a 7 week online course from the University of Edinburgh just to learn more about it.
Tullio

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Proton beams are back in the LHC

"But the most important step is still to come when we increase the energy of the beams to new record levels.”

Hm..

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I hope they find dark matter.

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I hope they find dark matter.

Me too Lynn, but with respect for the laws of nature that is.

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A lot of people will have egg on their faces if they don't :-))

Not really...

We are exploring reality itself here. Anything that is found or just as significantly whatever might not found will be exciting stuff for what has been newly explored.


All a part of another small step to push back farther at the frontiers of ignorance.

Keep searchin',
Martin

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SESAME passes an important milestone at CERN

The SESAME (link is external) project has reached an important milestone: the first complete cell of this accelerator for the Middle East has been assembled and successfully tested at CERN.
SESAME is a synchrotron light source under construction in Jordan. It will allow researchers from the region to investigate the properties of innovative materials, biological processes and cultural artefacts. SESAME is a unique joint venture that brings together scientists from its Members: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority and Turkey. Not only is SESAME an important scientific project, it is also helping to build bridges between diverse cultures in a part of the world that usually hits the headlines for its conflicts.

LHC: Preparations for collisions at 13 TeV

On Sunday proton beams circulated in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time after a 2-year period of maintenance and upgrades to the machine. From the CERN Control Centre, LHC operators and systems experts kept the beams at their injection energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), far below the target energy of 6.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV) per beam. Now the operators are testing the accelerator's subsystems and optimizing key beam parameters in preparation for increasing the beam intensity and ramping up the energy.
Only when the machine is sufficiently tuned – and the team declares "Stable Beams" with the beams in collision at the new energy of 6.5 TeV per beam – will the physics data taking begin. This work will take many weeks.

First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV

The Operations team for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully circulated a beam at 6.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV) - one of many steps before the accelerator will deliver collisions at four interaction points within the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb detectors.

AMS days: experiments present latest results

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration will present today the latest results in its quest to understand the origin of cosmic rays and dark matter. These intriguing results will be shared and discussed during the “AMS days” starting today at CERN with many of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and principal investigators of some of the major experiments exploring the field of cosmic-ray physics. The main objective of this scientific exchange is to understand the interrelation between AMS results and those of other major cosmic-ray experiments and current theories.

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I saw this:)

CERN uses 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity annually. That’s enough power to fuel 300,000 homes for a year in the United Kingdom. But the energy needed changes from month to month, as the seasons shift and the experimental requirements are adjusted.

At peak consumption, usually from May to mid-December, CERN uses about 200 megawatts of power, which is about a third of the amount of energy used to feed the nearby city of Geneva in Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) runs during this period of the year, using the power to accelerate protons to nearly the speed of light. CERN's power consumption falls to about 80 megawatts during the winter months.

200MW during summer yet a much reduced 80MW during winter...

Is that possibly due to reduced or more efficient cooling during the winter?...

(Wild guess on my part... Anyone know?)


Or are all the scientists working from home in winter and so there is much less espresso coffee being brewed?!

Keep search in,
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200MW during summer yet a much reduced 80MW during winter...
Is that possibly due to reduced or more efficient cooling during the winter?...
(Wild guess on my part... Anyone know?)
Or are all the scientists working from home in winter and so there is much less espresso coffee being brewed?!
Keep search in,Martin

From what I've Heard CERN are not allowed to use so much Power in the Winter.
And the accelerator need a LOT of Power.
However the computers are better cooled in the Winter.

I'll bet Tullio has the answer:)

I am back from a vacation in Liguria.The LHC is not powered in winter because it drains electricity from the city of Geneva but now it seems to be reaching its design energy of 13 TeV.I have to read many news to learn whats has happened in the 14 days I was absent, but the main result seems to be the abundance of antiprotons discovered by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer in the ISS.This maybe a result of dark matter annihilation. This was announced by Roberto Battiston, a physicist who is now the head of the Italian Space Agency.
Tullio

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Update:

ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab

A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean from CERN to its new home at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
The 760-ton, 20-metre-long detector took data for the ICARUS experiment at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics’ (INFN) Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy from 2010 to 2014, using a beam of neutrinos sent through the earth from CERN. The detector is now being refurbished at CERN, where it is the first beneficiary of a new test facility for neutrino detectors.

Fermilab operates two powerful neutrino beams and is in the process of developing a third, making it the perfect place for the ICARUS detector to continue its scientific exploration. Scientists plan to transport the detector to the United States in 2017.

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Our bridesmaid's husband worked at Fermi-Lab outside of Chicago. Buffalo (American Bison) roamed about inside the circle.

My brother took data there when he worked for the High-Energy Physics group at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

Landscape with The Fall of Icarus

P.Bruegel the Elder, Museum van Buuren

What have art with science to do?
Everything:)
The motto of my old School KTH was "Vetenskap och Konst", Science and Art. "Wetenschap en Kunst" in Dutch.
https://www.kth.se/en

One student there was Max Tegmark
https://www.kth.se/en/aktuellt/nyheter/kosmologen-max-tegmark-far-kth-s-stora-pris-1.563281
"I look at KTH as Sweden's MIT: a magnet for visionaries who want to create a better future with the help of science," he says.

Updates:

Arts @ CERN: Three winning artists and an open call

Arts @ CERN, CERN's official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate @ CERN and Collide @ CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide @ CERN in digital arts. Now in its fifth year, Arts @ CERN has welcomed more than 70 artists to the Laboratory.
“In pursuit of its cultural policy, Arts @ CERN continues to bring ‘Great Arts for Great Science’, giving artists the opportunity to discover the universe of high-energy physics at CERN,” said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer.

A milestone towards a higher-energy nuclear physics facility

CERN's nuclear physics facility ISOLDE will soon be producing radioactive ion beams at higher energies. The purpose of the HIE-ISOLDE (High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE) project, now in the advanced stages of construction at CERN, is to increase the energy and intensity of the ISOLDE beams. The transportation and installation of the first acceleration module on Saturday, 2 May marked an important milestone in the project. Made up of five superconducting accelerating cavities, this sophisticated module required years of development followed by months of assembly in a clean room at CERN. Once connected to the associated infrastructure, it will undergo several weeks of testing before HIE-ISOLDE is commissioned.

!Low-energy collisions tune LHC experiments

At about half past nine CET this morning, for the first time since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up after two years of maintenance and repairs, the accelerator delivered proton-proton collisions to the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb at an energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
These collisions, which take place with each beam at the so-called injection energy, that is, the energy at which proton beams are injected into the LHC from the Super Proton Synchrotron, enable the LHC experiments to tune their detectors. This process is also an important step towards readying the accelerator to deliver beams at 6.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV) for collisions at 13 TeV.

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Arts @ CERN: Three winning artists and an open callArts @ CERN, CERN's official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate @ CERN and Collide @ CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide @ CERN in digital arts. Now in its fifth year, Arts @ CERN has welcomed more than 70 artists to the Laboratory.
“In pursuit of its cultural policy, Arts @ CERN continues to bring ‘Great Arts for Great Science’, giving artists the opportunity to discover the universe of high-energy physics at CERN,” said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer.

I Think this is art. And the math...

Science and Art:)
https://www.kth.se/en/alumni/nyheter/nyhetsartiklar/vetenskap-konst-ingenjorer-1.318012