Less Than 1% of Large Hadron Collider Data Ever Gets Looked At

MICHELLE STARR 6 JAN 2019

When experiments are run at CERN's Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, it's a tremendous event. The world's largest machine has been responsible for discovering numerous new subatomic particles, including the ultra-elusive Higgs boson.

And lately, its data has been hinting tantalisingly at new physics beyond the Standard Model - the best set of equations we have to explain how the Universe works.

But it turns out the world only ever sees less than one percent of the data it actually generates.

Physicists use the 26.7-kilometre (16.6-mile) LHC tunnel to accelerate particles almost to light speed, and smash them together as hard as they can to see if they can find anything new in the resulting shower of particles.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/over-99-percent-of-large-hadron-collider-particle-collision-data-is-lost