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Whatever is the Matter? Tom Whyntie's NESTA FameLab Three Minute Wonder

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Tom Whyntie presents a very brief introduction to the search for "dark matter" at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN. The film was made as part of the prize for the UK NESTA FameLab 2009 competition. Directed by Peter Sweasey for Wall To Wall and Channel 4. Graphics by CERN, Equinox Graphics and Kelly Neaves. Originally broadcast on Channel 4, 12:30pm GMT, Thursday 5th November 2009.
Want to know more? See http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/Physics/index_public.html

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  • Depending on how things go - we're taking things VERY slowly - we might raise the energy to 3.5TeV per beam (as you say, senan23) in early 2010. This isn't the maximum - the machine is designed to go up to 7TeV per beam - but it will take a lot of work, skill and patience to get there.

    You can follow @CERN or @twhyntie on Twitter for the latest updates - and thanks for taking an interest!

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  • "The more qualified I am to say just how little we know about it..."

    My thoughts exactly! Press on.

  • @twhyntie

    thanks Tom for the update.. Your video is very good and informative.. hope things run well for you.

  • Pretty much - we actually want to break the world record for a proton beam this week, by going to ~1.1TeV per beam. This is new ground for us, because we haven't actually accelerated protons with the LHC before (it broke before we got around to it last year!).

    We may then start colliding at low (and well-understood) energies before Christmas. While there will be no "exotic" new physics from these, we will be able to calibrate our detectors and make the first proton-proton physics measurements.

  • 21st nov 09 it starts up . it reaches the same power as the chicago accelerator by xmas, By jan 10 , it will be on max power . x3.5 the power of chicago accelerator.

  • xmas i think

  • When will Cern be ready for another Test?

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