INTRODUCTION
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is
the world largest particle accelerator, it lies in a
tunnel below CERN, a European physics lab outside of
Geneva.
How it works:
Billions of protons are loaded into the LHC then by using
the electric field created by the magnets along their
path, they are able to accelerate 2 proton beams at the
speed of 6.5 TeV for each beam. After reaching that speed
the two beams collide head on.
(http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html#photo11)
TIME FRAME
History:
The LCH first run gave the evidence to test out the
standard model, a theory which describes that the universe
is made up tiny particles, and give the rules on how these
particles behave. The first run also helps discover the
Higgs Boson.
Present:
The world's newest particle
accelerator, Super KEKB, shown, just a baby with its 3km
circumference, compared to the 27km circumference of the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC). But it is designed to deliver
more than 40 times more collisions between particles than
its predecessor. Read more at daily
mail.
Picture from daily mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3472705/That-s-just-smashing-Japan-s-particle-accelerator-makes-turns-step-opening-new-door-universe.html#i-48bce3473990292e