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CERN Going Full Power! Goodbye Protons, Hello Heavy Lead Ions and Quark Gluon Plasma

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 6:06
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CERN have announced that the Proton collisions are finished, and now its time for the heavier ions of lead, which will start colliding head on later this month. The scientists are hoping these bigger collisions will allow them to take a look at the conditions that were present in the first few moments after the Big Bang as they recreated the Quark Gluon plasma that was formed at that early stage of the formation of everything we see around us today. What could possibly go wrong in recreating the moments after the Big Bang? Right?

Today, CERN reported the following in an announcement on their official website…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully completed its planned proton run for 2015, delivering the equivalent of about 400 trillion (1012) proton-proton collisions – some 4 inverse femtobarns of data – to both the ATLAS and CMS experiments. LHCb and ALICE have also enjoyed successful data taking at lower collision rates. CERN engineers will now prepare the accelerator to collide lead ions, for a physics run due to start in late November. These heavy-ion collisions allow physicists to investigate quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have formed just after theBig Bang…..

….. Of the seven experiments on the LHC ring, the 10,000 tonne ALICE detector is the most specialized for studying lead-lead collisions, in which the hundreds of protons and neutrons in two lead nuclei smash into one another at energies of upwards of a few trillion electronvolts each. This forms a miniscule fireball in which everything “melts” into a quark-gluon plasma.

“This new energy regime is of course very interesting for ALICE,” says ALICE spokesperson Paolo Giubellino. “In this run we will also have much larger statistics to work with and our detector has been significantly upgraded since the LHC’s first run. So we now have a better instrument to study the system to a much higher precision and at even higher temperatures than during run 1!”

And ALICE is not the only collaboration interested in lead ions. “There’s a big team in CMS studying the data and ATLAS is also very interested,” says Lamont. Following their participation in the 2013 proton-lead run, LHCb will now be taking lead-lead data too; evidence of a growing enthusiasm for the study of lead-lead collisions at the LHC’s new energy frontier.

(read full article HERE)

The collisions will start on the 20th of November and run up to the 13th of December. This is when we will see astronomical energy levels produced in the rings underground at the CERN complex. It was just recently Anthony Patch uncovered the fact that the true energy levels set to be produced far exceed any of the publically stated data, with over 1 Qaudrillion volts set to be unleashed with these two near solid beams of lead collide head on at near the speed of light.

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Previous Pb – Pb (Lead – Lead) Collisions in the ATLAS detector carried out at lesser power back in November 2010. Five years on exactly they are going for the “big bangs”

Maybe its just me, but despite my love for science, i still wonder at the sense of recreating the conditions of the big bang in such a confined space underground, just saying! Yes, we as humans love to push the boundaries, and if it were not for that very reason we may well never have made it out of the caves and away from grunting, hunting and gathers. However, that said, some things are maybe best left along, for who only knows what the consequences of recreating energies like these will be. It could be that we have already damaged the fabric of space and time with the nuclear explosions carried out over the years, not to mention what effect CERN and particle collider’s around the world have had whilst smashing the building blocks of the universe at next to the speed of light.

The quark gluon plasma that they are interested in, sound a bit to similar to quark gluon concentrate – the most explosive substance known in this universe, and more commonly known as “Stranglets” – thats right, those pesky minature black holes that have people such as Steven Hawking worried!

Lets take a look at what CERN say about the quark gluon PLASMA….

For a few millionths of a second, shortly after the big bang, the universe was filled with an astonishingly hot, dense soup made of all kinds of particles moving at near light speed. This mixture was dominated by quarks – fundamental bits of matter – and by gluons, carriers of the strong force that normally “glue” quarks together into familiar protons and neutrons and other species. In those first evanescent moments of extreme temperature, however, quarks and gluons were bound only weakly, free to move on their own in what’s called a quark-gluon plasma.

To recreate conditions similar to those of the very early universe, powerful accelerators make head-on collisions between massive ions, such as gold or lead nuclei. In these heavy-ion collisions the hundreds of protons and neutrons in two such nuclei smash into one another at energies of upwards of a few trillion electronvolts each. This forms a miniscule fireball in which everything “melts” into a quark-gluon plasma.

The fireball instantly cools, and the individual quarks and gluons (collectively called partons) recombine into a blizzard of ordinary matter that speeds away in all directions. The debris contains particles such as pions and kaons, which are made of a quark and an antiquark; protons and neutrons, made of three quarks; and even copious antiprotons and antineutrons, which may combine to form the nuclei of antiatoms as heavy as helium. Much can be learned by studying the distribution and energy of this debris. An early discovery was that the quark-gluon plasma behaves more like a perfect fluid with small viscosity than like a gas, as many researchers had expected.

(continue reading HERE)

Here is how things are going to unfold in terms of what happens when at CERN as we approach the end of 2015…

                     Machine Development Nov. 4 – 8                      Technical Stop Nov. 9 – 13                      Recommissioning Beam Nov. 14 – 15                      Set up of Ions of Lead Nov. 16 – 19                      Collisions Pb + Pb  Nov. 20 – Dec. 13                      Technical Stop Dec. 14 through end of 2015

Please visit the website of my good friend and fellow geek Anthony Patch for all the best and most researched information on CERN available in the alternative community.

Visit www.anthonypatch.com

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    • Bob

      Hey Stevo

      WTF ???

      I know about Quarks and Parsec’s also Nutrinos ( that go through everything )
      As im sure you do eh ?
      But im starting to run a wee bit nervous about this crowed of PhD’s at Con-Cern
      who obivously have no f*ckin idea what they are doing…..

      Why the hell would anybody want to recreate the absolute begining of time ???
      This is probably just more BS while these dudes try to open gate ways to the unknown….

      THIS CAN ONLY HAVE A VERY BAD ENDING.

      • Please don’t stop with Quarks, glue on’s and cling-ons !

        Tell em about the “Dark Energy” and “Black Matter” used to fill in the blanks on the maths.

        Man has never set his eyes on even a black hole in the center of the milkyway, too much gas and dust in the way, gammer radiation only shows a peek of the center and yet they present big color images as if they snapped these black holes with a camera.

        Now we have these “Super massive” WHITE holes, it think thats the toilet paper myself but i’m still yet to see any.

  • Big bang is a theory thats now being taken as the truth.

    Nothing comes out of CERN but hot air and a smell so add that to your “M-Theory” and 11 dimentions.

    The jar is empty, nevermind “things” poping in and out as they borrow time from the future but have to pay it back a micro second later else i will have to tell you about my granny that keeps coming back to life.

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