In Thrilling Smashup, LHC Breaks Beam Luminosity World Record | Popular Science
Science • April 2011 • Views: 479
In Thrilling Smashup, LHC Breaks Beam Luminosity World Record
The Large Hadron Collider is now officially the world’s most powerful particle acceleratorThe LHC smashed a record-breaking number of particles at midnight Geneva time last night, setting a new standard for beam intensity. CERN replaced Fermilab’s former record of 4.024 × 1032cm-2s-1 with a smug 4.67 × 1032cm-2s-1. That’s a lot of zeros, ranging somewhere in the billions of billions. Of billions.