The Large Hadron Collider

The recent particle accelerator that has been established by CERN(European Organization for Nuclear Research) established in 1954
The CERN has desinged the particle accelerator with the intention to bring out the hidden secrets of Big bang theory.
The following are the main facts that has been present in CERN
1.The precise circumference of the LHC accelerator is 26 659 m, with a total of 9300 magnets inside. Not only is the LHC the world’s largest particle accelerator, just one-eighth of its cryogenic distribution system would qualify as the world’s largest fridge. All the magnets will be pre‑cooled to -193.2°C (80 K) using 10 080 tonnes of liquid nitrogen, before they are filled with nearly 60 tonnes of liquid helium to bring them down to -271.3°C (1.9 K).
2. The RACE TRACK
At full power, trillions of protons will race around the LHC accelerator ring 11 245 times a second, traveling at 99.99% the speed of light.Altogether some 600 million collisions will take place every second.
3. The space stimulation
To avoid colliding with gas molecules inside the accelerator, the beams of particles travel in an ultra-high vacuum – a cavity as empty as interplanetary space. The internal pressure of the LHC is 10-13 atm, ten times less than the pressure on the Moon
4. Extreme Temperatures
will generate temperatures more than 100 000 times hotter than the heart of the Sun. The cryogenic distribution system, which circulates superfluid helium around the accelerator ring, keeps the particle accelarator super cool temperature of -271.3°C (1.9 K) colder than outer space
5. Precision Detectors
To sample and record the results of up to 600 million proton collisions per second, physicists and engineers have built gargantuan devices that measure particles with micron precision.
6. Complex Grid
The data recorded by each of the big experiments at the LHC will fill around 100 000 dual layer storage every year. To allow the thousands of scientists scattered around the globe to collaborate on the analysis over the next 15 years (the estimated lifetime of the LHC), tens of thousands of computers located around the world are being harnessed in a distributed computing network called the Grid.