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Why the Large Hydron Collider undergrounded?

10/17/2008 2:58 AM

Just answer my above question. Reply me soon.
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Re: Why the Large Hydron Collider undergrounded?

10/17/2008 3:14 AM

Because the value of the land needed on the surface is too big?

Because the security implications of it being on the surface are too onerous?

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Re: Why the Large Hydron Collider undergrounded?

10/17/2008 4:29 AM

Why is the LHC underground? Is it because it is doing secret experiments that scientists want to hide away?

The LHC has been built in a tunnel originally constructed for a previous collider (LEP – the Large Electron Positron collider). This was the most economic solution to building both LEP and the LHC. It was cheaper to build an underground tunnel than acquire the equivalent land above ground. Putting the machine underground also greatly reduces the environmental impact of the LHC and associated activities.

The rock surrounding the LHC is a natural shield that reduces the amount of natural radiation that reaches the LHC and this reduces interference with the detectors. Vice versa, radiation produced when the LHC is running is safely shielded by 50 – 100 metres of rock.

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I found that by just putting the question to google ; http://www.lhc.ac.uk/about-the-lhc/faqs.html . My actual wording was "why is the LHC underground". Please feel free to rate this post as a 'Good Answer' by using the buttons below. I feel so shamelessly naughty saying that !

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10/17/2008 8:18 AM

You're a bad man Kris! Anybody asking for good answer vote deserves a clip round the ear!

(If you liked this suggestion, please show it by posting a good answer vote!)

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10/20/2008 10:55 AM

Tee hee !

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10/20/2008 4:22 PM

I bumped your Good Answer count to four because:

1. I like shameless self-promoters and their ilk (hehe, Kris), and

2. You actually went to the trouble to look into this. That alone is worthy of several Good Answer votes in my book. Strange how some people seem to have never heard of Google.
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Re: Why the Large Hydron Collider undergrounded?

10/17/2008 10:14 AM

'Cause it was feared that it would ignite the earth's atmosphere. Putting it underground makes the earth's atmoshpere harder to get at.

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