CERN Wants to Upgrade LHC's Luminosity by 10 Times
Just two years after LHC ran its first particle collisions on all four of its detectors.
CERN scientists are planning a major upgrade to the collider. A new plan describes an 5 - 10X increase in luminosity, which would enable the LHC to conduct many more collisions than today. LHC's current luminosity rating is 4.67 x·1032 cm−2s−1. In comparison, the Tevatron, which was shut down at the end of September, achieved 4 x 1032 cm−2s−1.
The increased luminosity is expected to enable scientists to run more collisions and, in effect, detect the rare collision events they are looking for. In a conversation with Reuters, Sergio Bertolucci, research director at CERN said that "with processes so rare, extra luminosity makes a big difference to our ability to make precision measurements and discover new things."
The upgrade to the LHC is planned for the near future - preparations are being made during the upcoming winter shutdown - even if a luminosity is far from being trivial. According to Physorg, "higher luminosity will require new technologies to be developed in a range of fields including high field magnets, radiofrequency cavities and electrical transfer lines."
One of the benefits of the modification may be that scientists can detect evidence for the Higgs Boson.
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And the most disgusting, colossal waste of money in humankind's history ever spent on a scientific experiment gets even more disgusting ... this money would have been better spent developing a free energy device that all humanity and even the planet could benefit from.
.... and what exactly tells you that there is no chance of them finding something with the enhanced CERN LHC that leads to new scientific discoveries? Fusion is on that list....
And the most disgusting, colossal waste of money in humankind's history ever spent on a scientific experiment gets even more disgusting ... this money would have been better spent developing a free energy device that all humanity and even the planet could benefit from.
Im sure the scientific research that led to the discovery/production of nuclear power/pv panels etc wasn't that much cheaper.
As Nick_C said you don't know if it could lead to something like fusion or better.
And to complain about the LHC now? after the re-test of the neutrinos coming back faster than light again, that's big s**t (still does need outside verification though)
And the most disgusting, colossal waste of money in humankind's history ever spent on a scientific experiment gets even more disgusting ... this money would have been better spent developing a free energy device that all humanity and even the planet could benefit from.
This is probably one of the dumbest comments I've read here, with all the other things we frivolously waste money on in the bucket loads I believe the LHC is acctually doing some good. Just look at the sports world for one or Hollywod or one of the many other useless waste of time things we do with our lives