Large Hadron Collider

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/large-hadron-collider

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year of first beam?2008
2. What is the maximum collision energy?13.6 TeV (tera-electronvolts) in current runs
3. What is the Large Hadron Collider and where is it located?The Large Hadron Collider is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. It sits 175 meters underground near the border of France and Switzerland, close to Geneva.
4. How big is the LHC ring and how many magnets does it have?The ring is 27 kilometers long, about 17 miles. It contains more than 9,300 superconducting dipole magnets that bend the particle beams.

Standard Model of Particle Physics: The theory describing the fundamental particles and forces that make up the universe, excluding gravity.
TeV (Tera-electronvolt): A unit of energy commonly used in particle physics, representing one trillion electronvolts.
Supersymmetry (SUSY): A theoretical framework proposing that every fundamental particle has a more massive 'superpartner'.