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Nice to see the LHC can still be useful to make discoveries.
by jokoon 6y ago
Nice to see the LHC can still be useful to make discoveries.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoIt'll be in operations for years if not decades to come still. They're working on an upgrade to increase the 'luminosity' (dunno what that means yet) by a factor 10 as we speak, slated to be finished in 2027 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_Collider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_C...)
- ShinyRice 6y agoLuminosity is the number of particles (in the LHC's case, protons) flowing per unit area and unit time. Additionally, integrated luminosity is luminosity integrated over time, and is just the number of events produced per unit area. It is the main metric used when CERN releases data and shares just how many events are in a given data set; this is done such that you can take the cross section of a given event (like Higgs production), multiply it by this value, and get how many events of that type happen (how many Higgs were produced).