The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Cosmic Ray Energies
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/CosmicRays/Week4.html or index.html
About CERN http://home.cern/about The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) http://home.cern/topics/large-hadron-collider CERN-LHC FAQ http://cds.cern.ch/record/1165534/files/CERN-Brochure-2009-003-Eng.pdf CERN-Brochure-2009-003-Eng.pdf (temporary) Routing ATLAS http://home.cern/about/experiments/atlas CMS http://home.cern/about/experiments/cms ALICE http://home.cern/about/experiments/alice LHCb http://home.cern/about/experiments/lhcb CERN - Particle Fever (1:39) http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/07/07/particle-fever-on-itunes/ PBS NOVA 2015: Big Bang Machine CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - BBC Documentary (1 hr) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um4YTUQAZ8I The online muon identification with the ATLAS eExperiment at the LHC http://www.researchgate.net/publication/269073970_The_online_muon_identification_with_the_ATLAS_eExperiment_at_the_LHC The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is a proton-proton collider providing the highest energy and the highest instantaneous luminosity ever achieved at a hadron collider. During 2012 runs, bunch crossings occurred every 50 ns. Muons provide a clear signature for many physics processes. They therefore often play an important role in physics analyses such as the recent discovery of a Higgs boson. A full overview of the ATLAS muon trigger system is given, the three years of running experience are summarised and a report about online performance such as processing time, trigger rates, efficiency and resolution is given. If you think the Large Hadron Collider is impressive, think what particle reactions are occurring at the Cosmic Ray point of impact where energies can be 100,000,000 times greater! sam.wormley@gmail.com