Op deze pagina vindt u alle informatie over de 38e International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016) in Chicago.
05/08/2016
CERN press release (Alleen Engelse versie, scroll naar beneden voor Nederlandstalige reacties van Nikhef-programmaleiders)
Geneva and Chicago, 5 August 2016. Particle physicists are showcasing a wealth of brand new results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN[1] at the “ICHEP 2016”[2] conference in Chicago. With a flood of new data, the experiment collaborations can now dive in and explore at the new energy frontier of 13 TeV, following last year’s first glimpse of physics at this unprecedented energy level. LHC collaborations are presenting more than 100 different new results, including many analyses based on newly taken 2016 data.
Thanks to the outstanding performances of the LHC, experiments have already recorded about 5 times more data in 2016 than in 2015, in just a few months of operations. The LHC surpassed its design luminosity in June – a parameter measuring the number of collisions per second. The peak luminosity reaches about 1 billion collisions per second so that even the rarest processes at the highest effective energy could occur. The LHC is thus running beyond expectations and the objective of 25 inverse femtobarn[3] of proton–proton collisions delivered to experiments for the whole of 2016 is within sight. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid has stretched well beyond previous records, with more than 25 PB of data stored and processed since the beginning of the year.