{"id":418,"date":"2011-07-15T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-07-10T23:39:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T05:39:03","slug":"cern-atom-smasher-sets-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/cern-atom-smasher-sets-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"CERN atom smasher sets new record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for beam intensity, a key measure of performance and power, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday.<\/p>\n

On a quest to unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva collided beams with a luminosity exceeding the mark set last year by the US Tevetron accelerator, CERN said.<\/p>\n

In particle physics, luminosity affects the number of collisions – the higher the luminosity, the more particles are likely to collide.<\/p>\n

‘Beam intensity is key to the success of the LHC, so this is a very important step,’ said CERN director General Rolf Heuer.<\/p>\n

‘High intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential,’ he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The new record measured a level of luminosity of 467,000 billion billion billion – 467 followed by 30 zeros – per sq cm per second, which corresponds to several million particle collisions per second.<\/p>\n

Photo By CERN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for beam intensity, a key measure of performance and power, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday. On a quest to unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva collided beams with a luminosity exceeding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}