Results from the LHC's second, higher-energy run suggest that that new particles await discovery.

Results from the LHC's second, higher-energy run suggest that that new particles await discovery.
In the experimental run, researchers sent two proton beams hurtling in opposite directions around the collider at close to the speed of light. Each beam contained 476 bunches of 100 billion protons, with collisions between protons occurring every 50 nanoseconds. The team analyzed 20 million “snapshots” of the interacting proton beams, and identified 150,000 events containing proton-proton collisions.

For each collision that the researchers identified, they determined the number and angle of particles scattered from the colliding protons. The average proton collision produced about 22 charged particles known as hadrons, which were mainly scattered along the transverse plane, immediately around the main collision point.

Compared with the collider’s first run, at an energy intensity of 7 TeV, the recent experiment at 13 TeV produced 30 percent more particles per collision.

The results support the theory that higher-energy collisions may increase the chance of finding new particles.

Source & further reading:
http://news.mit.edu/2015/large-hadron-collider-first-results-1014

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