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Steve Playfer University of Edinburgh 15th Novemebr 2008
Large Hadron Collider at CERN
27km circumference depth 70-140m
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LHC vital statistics • Will eventually collide two 7 TeV proton beams with
beam currents of 600mA E=mc2 gives 14TeV=>0.15g (a fly) Total energy stored in beam is 350MJ (90kg of TNT) • Uses 1232 superconducting NbTi dipole magnets to
bend beams round the ring • Beam pipe has vacuum of 10-13 atmospheres • Total power required to run LHC is 120MW • Total cost to construct LHC was 3Billion Euros (not including tunnel which was constructed for LEP)
More details on design at http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
Current status at http://www.lhcportal.com/ 17.03.2010 3 Status of the LHC - Steve Playfer
LHC Dipoles • Magnets are cooled to
1.9K by superfluid 3He
• Field ramps from 0.5T to 8.3T during injection • Both beams are in the
same cryostat
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ALICE Experiment
SPS ring injects 400GeV protons
Cool-down time is 4 weeks/sector
Today all the magnets are cold
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Four Experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb)
LHC RF Cavities • Needed to accelerate beams from 400GeV to
7TeV after injection • Also needed to replace synchrotron energy losses during stable beam delivery (collisions) • 8 cavities/beam • Frequency 400 MHz • Accelerating gradient 5MV/m
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LHC Operation • Proton beams are injected from the SPS at 400GeV
and then accelerated to 7TeV. This is known as a “fill”. • The lifetime of the stored beams is ~10 hours. • There will eventually be 2808 bunches of protons in
each direction. Each bunch contains 1011 protons and travels round the ring in 0.9ms.
• The bunch spacing is ~7m or 25ns, the bunch length is 7.5cm, and the crossing rate is 40MHz at each of the four interaction points (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE).
• At full luminosity (1034/cm2/s) there will be several interactions during each bunch crossing.
• The expected data rate is 100MB/s per experiment or ~10 PetaBytes/year!
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LHC turn-on 10/9/08 Big media publicity day (I was at the Scottish parliament)
Proton beams were circulated in each direction for a short time.
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The incident on 19/10/08
• Burnt a hole in a cryogenic circuit causing a large liquid Helium leak (6 Tonnes)
• Energy released as pressure wave was sufficient to damage several magnets
• Safety interlocks restricted damage to one sector
• During power testing of a dipole magnet at high current (9kA) there was an electrical arc due to sudden high resistance.
Dissipated 400MJ of energy very quickly.
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The culprit: a bus-bar joint
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24’000 bus-bar joints in the LHC main circuits.
10’000 joints are at the interconnection between magnets. They are welded in the tunnel.
Nominal joint resistance: • 1.6 K 300pΩ • 300K ~10µΩ
For the LHC to operate safely at a certain energy, there is a limit to the maximum value of the joint resistance.
2008/9 - LHC repair and consolidation
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14 quadrupole magnets replaced
39 dipole magnets replaced
204 electrical inter-connections repaired
Over 4km of vacuum beam tube cleaned
New longitudinal restraining system for 50 quadrupoles
Almost 900 new helium pressure release ports
6500 new detectors and 250km cables for new Quench Protection System to protect from busbar quenches
November/December 2009
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20th Nov Day 0 Both beams circulating after 6 hours 23rd Nov Day 3 First pilot collisions at 450 GeV 29th Nov Day 9 Beams ramped to 1.18 TeV 6th Dec Day 16 Stable collisions @ 450 GeV for the experiments 8th Dec Day 18 Both beams ramped to 1.18 TeV – first collisions
Low luminosity, but all four experiments observed collisions
First papers (on inclusive charged track multiplicity) have already appeared.
Results are being presented this week (Moriond QCD)
2010-2011 Run
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(Ambitious) goal : each experiment collects an integrated luminosity of 1 fb-1 of data
Peak luminosity 2x1032/cm2/s (same as Tevatron) 700 bunches with 108 p/bunch (30MJ of stored energy) There will be a short heavy ion run in November 2010 Beam Energy will be 3.5TeV (maximum safe level
before further improvements to machine in 2012)
Beams injected this month. About to accelerate them to 3.5TeV.
First collisions at the end of the month?
1031/cm2/s
April July November
1032/cm2/s
2010
LHC Detectors • ATLAS is a general purpose detector (GPD)
46mx25mx25m, 7000Tonnes, central magnetic solenoid 2T and muon toroids 4T
• CMS is another GPD, 21mx15mx15m, 12500Tonnes, central magnetic solenoid 4T – GPDs look for new heavy particles – Each collaboration has 2000 physicists (10% from UK)
• LHCb is a forward spectrometer with a dipole bending magnet (4Tm) – Designed to study b quarks – Collaboration has 700 physicists (20% from UK)
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ATLAS
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CMS
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Décembre 2005
LHCb
Muon detectors
Bending Magnet
Vertex Locator
Tracking System
Calorimeter Particle ID (RICH)
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Λ → p π
First Physics Results
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Number of charged tracks as a function of (pseudo)rapidity is rather flat
ALICE EPJC 65:111 (2010)
National Geographic News (4th Dec)
‘….a machine called ALICE....
found that a proton-proton collision
recorded on November 23rd
created the precise ratio of matter and antimatter particles
predicted from theory..’
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W.H.Bell (Moriond QCD 2010)
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C.Roland (Moriond QCD 2010)
CMS First Results
Transverse momentum spectrum is as expected
LHCb First Results
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Inclusive KS production in the forward direction
M.Knecht (Moriond QCD 2010)
Long Term LHC Schedule • Big shutdown in 2012 to make machine safe to
operate at full beam energy of 7 TeV • Then there will be long 18 month runs separated by
shorter 6 month shutdowns • Peak luminosity will gradually increase (x2/year?) • There will improvements to the injectors (2015-2020) • Eventually there will be upgrades to the detectors
(2016-2020?)
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My optimistic scenario… - Find evidence for supersymmetry in 2011 - Find Higgs boson(s) by 2014
Why the LHC won’t destroy the world Centre of mass energy of proton-proton collisions ECM=14TeV
Can be achieved by colliding a high energy proton with a proton at rest ECM = sqrt(2Epmp) with Ep ~105 TeV
Primary cosmic rays (protons) interact with the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Highest observed energy cosmic rays are Ep ~108 TeV which gives ECM>>14TeV.
There are even more energetic collisions in the centres of galaxies, black holes etc.
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