LHC@home

Saw this on the Net tonight...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-large-hadron-collider-is-being-shut-down/ar-AA1TuFj2?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=b2bce3c538e647c59b1f792a20a10f9a&ei=275

"The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now considering."

"Even something responsible for one of the most important scientific discoveries in history needs a facelift, however. Beginning in June, engineers will start upgrading the device so that it can carry out ten times the number of particle collisions it currently can do, something that will allow for far more experiments to be conducted, yielding still more troves of data. The project, dubbed the high-luminosity LHC, will take some five years to complete — and while surely worth it in the long run, that’s an immense amount of down time.

Rest assured, the LHC won’t be going dark without leaving physicists quite a bit of homework to complete before its return, according to Mark Thomson, the new director general of CERN, the intergovernmental organization and physics lab that oversees the particle accelerator.

“The machine is running brilliantly and we’re recording huge amounts of data,” Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, told The Guardian. “There’s going to be plenty to analyze over the period. The physics results will keep on coming.”"

It pretty much does this every year Mikey
This is my 22nd year and every year they were always doing updates and working on new projects.

They are now planning on the new upgrades to detectors like ATLAS and CMS will improve data capture.
LHC is undergoing an extensive overhaul to become the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC}
HL-LHC, using new magnets to increase beam brightness and collision rates significantly for better physics discovery
CERN is also planning the next-generation Future Circular Collider (FCC), a much larger machine, with key decisions expected in 2028
Even with the offline we are busy analyzing the massive amounts of data already collected.
The HL-LHC aims to increase collision rates tenfold
Of course you and I will be even older geezers and they will probably replace all of us with youngsters since that has been going on for decades and I got to know a few of them.....even older than us
Mark Thomson a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge on January 1st has taken over as the director general of Cern