energy frontier
esiegel | August 14, 2013"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge." -Enrico Fermi
As you probably know, the Large Hadron Collider -- site of discovery of the last fundamental particle in the Standard Model, the Higgs Boson -- is the most energetic particle accelerator in the history of humankind. When the upgrades it's currently undergoing are complete, it will reach collision energies of 14 TeV.
Image credit: CERN / LHC, add-on created by http://www.panglosstech.com/.
The way this happens is that protons are circulated in a giant ring, underground, that'…