How a hadron collider works?

Answer 1

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) works by generating two beams, one of protons and the other of antiprotons, and sets them travelling in opposite directions in a 27 kilometer underground pipe. Both particle streams will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light by a series of magnets. At certain points in the pipe, the beams will be allowed to collide, causing high speed "crashes" between the protons and antiprotons. The collisions will disintegrate the particles into many smaller particles, and special detectors will measure the consequences of any collisions and attempt to identify the fragments.

Answer 2

CERN is an organisational headquaters of scientists, based in Switzerland, which houses a large hadron collider (the LHC). By smashing particles together at great speed, it's hoped that the LHC will be able to recreate the conditions present at the beginning of the universe (the big bang). The scientists are examining the microscopic collisions, which are created by shooting atoms around the huge tunnels of the LHC. Please also see this article for further easy to understand information about CERN: http://scientificinquiry.suite101.com/article.cfm/cern_the_big_bang_machine

Answer 3

The Large Hadron Collider is the name of one specific particle accelerator. What it does is speed particles up to very large energies, make them collide, and then the debris of the collision is analyzed.

Answer 4

The hadron collider starts off with two lots of hadrons (protons) in a long ring. Superconducting and extremely cold (less than 0.2 Kelvin) electromagnets placed outside the ring use the protons' electrical charge to accelerate them. The magnets are also used to hold the protons in tight beams and to steer them. The two lots of protons are accelerated to greater and greater speeds within the rings, in opposite directions, until the beams are allowed to collide head-on.

Although each proton has a tiny mass, the beams are accelerated to extremely high speeds. Recently at CERN (Geneva), each beam had an energy of 6.5 tera electron volts (TeV). The combined energy of the impact was, therefore 13 TeV. At such energies, the protons were ripped apart and the debris was studied to look for exotic particles - including the Higgs Boson.

Answer 5

nay, the machine got repaired. LOL