The LHC is getting a major upgrade, and this upgrade will cause a lot more trouble on earth than they will ever admit. The current amount of black holes opened by CERN has done damage to the magnetosphere, and other parts of our world however with this upgrade it will increase the damage. Here is the latest from CERN:
This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC – a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will increase its discovery potential from 2025.
After a four-year design study the project is now moving into its second phase, which will see the development of industrial prototypes for various parts of the accelerator.
Luminosity is a crucial indicator of accelerator performance. It is proportional to the number of particles colliding within a defined amount of time. Since discoveries in particle physics rely on statistics, the greater the number of collisions, the more chances physicists have to see a particle or process that they have not seen before.
The High-Luminosity LHC will increase the luminosity by a factor of 10, delivering 10 times more collisions than the LHC would do over the same period of time. It will therefore provide more accurate measurements of fundamental particles and enable physicists to observe rare processes that occur below the current sensitivity level of the LHC.
The increase in luminosity will mean that physicists can study new phenomena discovered by the LHC, such as the Higgs boson, in more detail. The High-Luminosity LHC will produce 15 million Higgs bosons per year compared to the 1.2 million in total created at the LHC between 2011 and 2012.
Upgrading the LHC is a challenging project that relies on several breakthrough technologies, which are currently under development. Some 1.2 km of the LHC will be replaced by these new technologies, which include cutting-edge 12 tesla superconducting quadrupole magnets, brand new superconducting radiofrequency cavities or electrical transfer lines, based on high temperature superconductors. The High-Luminosity LHC will use these pioneering technologies for the very first time, which will not only increase the discovery potential of the LHC but also act as proof-of-concept for future accelerators.
Works Cited
Corinne Pralavorio. “LHC luminosity upgrade project moving to next phase.” CERN. . (2015): . . http://home.cern/about/updates/2015/10/lhc-luminosity-upgrade-project-moving-next-phase
What happened on Halloween. Cern was supposed to have kicked up big time. Was wondering.