by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
So many of you sent the following story to me that it was one of those rare instances that a story vaulted immediately to the finals folder. CERN, it seems, is closing its Large Hadron Collider for an “update” before reopening it in 203o:
As one might guess, there is a lot of quantumspeak and technoblither in the article that – in my own opinion – are deliberate misdirects from the “real” story squatting unobtrusively in the middle of all the quantum speak. As usual, the quantumspeak is designed to convince the reader that the whole, and sole, purpose of the collider and its vast magnetic fields and computing power and the coming upgrades are simply to probe the most fundamental particle building blocks of the universe, there being no other scientific investigations it conducts:
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Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run, the accelerator has been switched off to begin CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), a major programme of maintenance, consolidation, upgrades and installation work that will prepare the Laboratory for the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC), the next phase in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature.
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The HiLumi LHC, scheduled to begin operation in 2030, will increase the collider’s luminosity by a factor of up to ten beyond its original design. This will allow researchers to collect vastly larger datasets, enabling precision studies of the Higgs boson and enhancing the potential to uncover phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
LS3 marks the most extensive intervention on CERN’s accelerator complex since the construction of the LHC itself. Between now and 2030, the shutdown will involve thousands of specialists from CERN and partner institutes worldwide, who will transform the LHC, the injectors and their experiments into their HiLumi versions, and carry out essential renovation projects across the entire accelerator complex and experimental facilities: from the consolidation of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) North Area, the dismantling of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) target area and the transformation of the Experimental Cavern North 3 (ECN3) into a high-intensity fixed-target facility, to the renovation of the ISOLDE facility and the consolidation of the personnel safety systems, electrical network and technical galleries.
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In the LHC caverns, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will undergo extensive upgrades, effectively becoming renewed detectors. To fully exploit the unprecedented performance of the HiLumi LHC, they will need to cope with between 140 and 200 proton–proton collisions in every bunch crossing, compared to around 60 during the last LHC run. This means identifying and selecting the most interesting collisions from more than five billion interactions every second.
There you have it: The amount of particle collisions the accelerator will be able to generate will increase about two to three times what it is now, when the high luminosity experiment updgrade takes over. But little is actually said about what that high luminosity experiment is. A little digging, however, will inform the reader that the increased collisions are brought about by an increased focus of the particle beams doing the collisions. And that increased focus in turn will require increasing the magnetic field strength and focus, requiring an overhaul and update to the collider’s magnets, and here, with the following paragraph, we reach what I regard as the real heart of the story, and, of course, the one about which the information is vague and mostly missing:
