Statistics. Research and Documentation Online. LHC_Homepage. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. Viterbi School of Engineering : The Einstein Emitter. One single photon.
One solitary quantum pulse of electromagnetic radiation, no more, no less, produced by one single electron, will be the product of a new device under construction by nanotechnologists at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The award is part a new NSF progam encouraging Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRTs), which is part of of NSF's Nanoscale Science and Engineering programs.