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The Large Hadron Collider by Enrico Sacchetti:From Millennium Images

Today sees the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator, and cost in excess of $6 billion. Today, for the first time, the LHC will send a proton beam around its 16.57-mile-long tunnel.

From the Press Release:

Experiments at the LHC will open new vistas on the deepest secrets of the universe, from new forces of nature to new dimensions of space. These experiments may help scientists unravel some of particle physics biggest mysteries such as the origin of mass and the identification of dark matter and possibly identify the Higgs boson particle, what is commonly known as the "God" particle. Scientists hypothesize that the Higgs boson is what causes mass to exist. Text by Enrico Sacchetti.

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Most of the activities at CERN are currently directed towards building a new collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the experiments for it. The LHC represents a large-scale, worldwide scientific cooperation project. The LHC tunnel is located 100 meters underground, in the region between the Geneva airport and the nearby Jura mountains. It uses the 27 km circumference circular tunnel previously occupied by LEP which was closed down in November 2000. CERN's existing PS/SPS accelerator complexes will be used to pre-accelerate protons which will then be injected into the LHC.

Six experiments (CMS, ATLAS, LHCb, TOTEM, LHC-forward and ALICE) are currently being built, and will be running on the collider; each of them will study particle collisions under a different point of view, and with different technologies. Construction for these experiments required an extraordinary engineering effort. Just as an example, to lower the pieces for the CMS experiment into the underground cavern which will host it, a special crane will have to be rented from Belgium, which will be able to lift the almost 2000 tons for each piece. The first of the approximately 5,000 magnets necessary for construction was lowered down a special shaft at 13:00 GMT on 7 March 2005. This accelerator will generate vast quantities of computer data, which CERN will stream to laboratories around the world for distributed processing (making use of a specialized GRID infrastructure, the LHC Computing Grid). In April 2005, a trial successfully streamed 600 MB per second to seven different sites across the world. If all the data generated by the LHC is to be analysed, then scientists must achieve 1,800 MB per second before 2008.

As of August 2008 the majority of the LHC ring is now cooled to the 1.9 K (-271.25 °C) operating temperature. The initial particle beams are due for injection in August 2008, the first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.

Source of text Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN

An award-winning commercial photographer in Europe, Enrico Sacchetti is well known for his work in fashion, portraiture and popular culture. His work has appeared in major publications worldwide. After a 15-year career in London, Enrico is now based in New York City. Although, experienced in working with both film and digital platforms, he prefers working with film on medium and large format cameras.

Selected Awards:First-place prize recipient of Fuji's 2006 Distinction Awards

Selected Exhibitions: Fashion Acts Exhibition London 2004, L'Oreal Exhibition Paris 2004, Fuji Film on Film Exhibition London 2006.

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