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malm1987
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I kind of overheard an discussion over at another forum regarding this, but none could seem to find a reliable source to verify it. The only thing I could find is information from page 1 at the LHC Portal saying that the might "skip" the planned stop during 2012 and perhaps even increase energies during this period.
I thought that the stop was both maintenance AND machine development (in order to have a chance of achieving 15 TeV pp/7,5 TeV HIC)?
So, basically my question is whether or not this could be true?
And then I have a really stupid question to top it off; if mBH's were created at LHC during the last run, do you think those results would be available to the general public? I mean, there seems to be more than a little difference between the mBH's that LHC could produce according to the scientists involved and the mBH's the media et al thinks that the LHC could produce (i.e. harmless vs dangerous). If CERN did indeed see mBH creation, do you suppose they would "dare" to let the media know?
And finally, you guys were able to convince me that last years energies wouldn't kill us, so the mandatory questions now is; will the design energies have an increased risk of anything harmful whatsoever happening? I.e. could 15TeV/7,5TeV prove to be dangerous in any way, shape or form?
I thought that the stop was both maintenance AND machine development (in order to have a chance of achieving 15 TeV pp/7,5 TeV HIC)?
So, basically my question is whether or not this could be true?
And then I have a really stupid question to top it off; if mBH's were created at LHC during the last run, do you think those results would be available to the general public? I mean, there seems to be more than a little difference between the mBH's that LHC could produce according to the scientists involved and the mBH's the media et al thinks that the LHC could produce (i.e. harmless vs dangerous). If CERN did indeed see mBH creation, do you suppose they would "dare" to let the media know?
And finally, you guys were able to convince me that last years energies wouldn't kill us, so the mandatory questions now is; will the design energies have an increased risk of anything harmful whatsoever happening? I.e. could 15TeV/7,5TeV prove to be dangerous in any way, shape or form?