LHC Machine

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Authors

Lyndon R Evans · European Organization for Nuclear Research

P J Bryant · European Organization for Nuclear Research

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva is the world's newest and most powerful tool for Particle Physics research. It is designed to collide proton beams with a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and an unprecedented luminosity of 1034 cm−2 s−1. It can also collide heavy (Pb) ions with an energy of 2.8 TeV per nucleon and a peak luminosity of 1027 cm−2 s−1. In this paper, the machine design is described.

Topics & Keywords

Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Superconducting Materials and Applications

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: Journal of Instrumentation

Volume 3, Issue 08, pp. S08001-S08001

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/s08001

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