Bang !! 13 TeV - The Highest Energy Ever Achieved By Mankind ?!
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 18:40
in Astronomy & Space
The LHC has finally started to produce 13-TeV proton-proton collisions! The picture below shows one such collision, as recorded by the CMS experiment today. The blue boxes show the energy recorded in the calorimeter, which measures particle energy by "destroying" them as they interact with the dense layers of matter that this device is made up of; the yellow curves show tracks reconstructed by the ionization deposits of charged particles left in the silicon detector layers of the inner tracker. read more