LHC Facts and figures Experiments involved Aims How it works
Facts and figures 27 Km 14 TeV High speeds Capable of accelerating heavy ions 5 main experiments
Main experiments ALICE ATLAS CMS LHCb TOTEM A Large Ion Collider Experiment A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS Compact Muon Solenoid LHC beauty TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation
How it works It needs to be in a vacuum Magnets keep the beam focused and make it go in a circle The beams are accelerated by electric fields machine-outreach/components/magnets.htm
LHC Tunnel outreach/images/cern-photos/CE0085M.jpg
Annimation
Huge scale project Involving whole international community Projects taken over 10 years planning Potential of discovering new physics, that could change our future Higher speeds, higher energies Perhaps new problems to be solved, that as yet not even thought of!