CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, will hold a press briefing on the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) restart on Thursday, March 12 at 2:30 p.m. CET (9:30 a.m. EDT). Speakers will include CERN’s Director General, Rolf Heuer, Director of Accelerators, Frédérick Bordry and representatives of the LHC experiments.
From a press release from CERN:
“The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is ready to start up for its second three-year run. The 27-km LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world operating at a temperature of -217 degrees Centigrade and powered to a current of 11,000 amps. Run 2 of the LHC follows a two-year technical stop that prepared the machine for running at almost double the energy of the first run. After substantial consolidation and improvements the LHC will restart at an energy of 6.5 TeV per beam, which will open up a new window for discovery -- collisions at a total energy of 13 TeV are expected late spring.
“CERN General Director Rolf Heuer, the Director of Accelerators Frédérick Bordry, and the LHC experiment representatives will take questions regarding the LHC second three-year run, focusing on the technical challenges in preparing for Run 2, and on the new discovery potential.
“The highlight of the machine’s successful first run was the discovery by the ATLAS and CMS experiments of the long-sought Higgs boson.”
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