The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

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The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by chelle » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:43 pm

"The upgrade, which has been compared to a heart transplant,
was made to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment …"


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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by mfb » Sat Mar 11, 2017 6:20 pm

This is not the Large Hadron Collider. It is the CMS experiment, which got a new pixel tracker. Describing it as first major upgrade is misleading. ATLAS inserted a new pixel layer during the last long stop, for example, and all the experiments replaced various smaller components during that time.

All the LHC dipoles (actually part of the accelerator) and various other components got upgrades during the last long stop.

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by chelle » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:05 am

mfb wrote:This is not the Large Hadron Collider. It is the CMS experiment, …
I don't see the problem, LHC is the general term for the project (for the public) of which CMS is a part of. Sure, if you want to nitpick … I guess that's what you have to do to keep yourself busy when there is no longer anything to find.
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by mfb » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:35 pm

If New York gets a new major, do you write "the US got a new president"?

And do you claim people would be nitpicking if someone corrects you?

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by chelle » Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:50 pm

mfb wrote:If New York gets a new major, do you write "the US got a new president"?
That's a bad example, because a mayor and a president are different words, an upgrade can happen for both the accelerator and the detector. See it like this, if NY get's at new skyscraper, you could write "the US gets a new skyscraper".
mfb wrote:And do you claim people would be nitpicking if someone corrects you?
You weren't 'correcting' anything rather being more specific.
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by mfb » Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:47 am

chelle wrote:
mfb wrote:If New York gets a new major, do you write "the US got a new president"?
That's a bad example, because a mayor and a president are different words, an upgrade can happen for both the accelerator and the detector. See it like this, if NY get's at new skyscraper, you could write "the US gets a new skyscraper".
Now you are nitpicking.
"US gets a new leader" if New York gets one.

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by chelle » Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:25 am

mfb wrote:"US gets a new leader" if New York gets one.
Beter would be the US has a new senator, can be the senator of NY.

Sure now I'm nitpicking. :mrgreen:
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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by dukwon » Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:08 am

This thread should be in viewforum.php?f=19

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by mfb » Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:34 am

dukwon wrote:This thread should be in viewforum.php?f=19
And that forum has a thread already. Posted nearly a week earlier than this thread in the wrong forum.

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Re: The Large Hadron Collider Just Got a Crucial Upgrade

Post by chelle » Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:14 pm

mfb wrote:
dukwon wrote:This thread should be in viewforum.php?f=19
And that forum has a thread already. Posted nearly a week earlier than this thread in the wrong forum.
Yep, double-post, this one may be removed, my bad, I overlooked Draph's entry. :oops:
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