The LHC uses a distribution system of liquid helium to keep its critical components ultracold at minus 271.3 degrees Celsius, which is colder than interstellar space.Since the LHC’s powerful electromagnets carry almost as much current as a bolt of lightning, they must be kept chilled.The particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is akin to firing two needles 10 km apart with such precision that they meet halfway.Just prior to collision, another type of magnet is used to ‘squeeze’ the particles closer together to increase the chances of collisions.The magnetic field created by the superconducting electromagnets keeps the protons in a tight beam and guides them along the way as they travel through beam pipes and finally collide.

The third run will see 20 times more collisions as compared to Run 1.

The second season of data taking produced five times more data than Run 1.

The LHC’s second run (Run 2) began in 2015 and lasted till 2018.In its operational state, it fires two beams of protons almost at the speed of light in opposite directions inside a ring of superconducting electromagnets.Structurally, it is a 27-km-long track-loop buried 100 metres underground on the Swiss-French border.The Large Hadron Collider is a giant, complex machine built to study particles that are the smallest known building blocks of all things.

The world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will begin smashing protons into each other at unprecedented levels of energy beginning July 5. Prelims level : Large Hadron Collider (LHC) From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :

Eu funding of the large hadron collider