What is LHC data?
Collisions in the LHC generate particles that often decay in complex ways into even more particles. The LHC experiments produce about 90 petabytes of data per year, and an additional 25 petabytes of data are produced per year for data from other (non-LHC) experiments at CERN.
What software does LHC use?
All of our LHC@home projects run using BOINC – a long-established platform which is used by the vast majority of volunteer-computing projects around the world. Some of the LHC@home projects also require some extra software in order to manage the CERN-specific algorithms.
Is LHC working now?
Despite these difficulties, and thanks to the hard work of the LS2 teams, the activities are going well. At present, the LHC is already in its cooldown phase and the first of the accelerator’s eight sectors reached its nominal temperature (1.9 K or -271.3 °C) on 15 November.
Is CERN data publicly available?
Geneva, 11 December 2020. Data will start to be released approximately five years after collection, and the aim is for the full dataset to be publicly available by the close of the experiment concerned. …
Where is the Hadron Collider?
CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The accelerator sits in a tunnel 100 metres underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
What programming language is used at CERN?
The ease of use and a very low learning curve makes Python a perfect programming language for many physicists and other people without the computer science background. CERN does not only produce large amounts of data.
Did the LHC find the Higgs boson?
This particle was called the Higgs boson. In 2012, a subatomic particle with the expected properties was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The new particle was subsequently confirmed to match the expected properties of a Higgs boson.