"Groundbreaking Achievement: Large Hadron Collider Reaches Major Milestone"
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have achieved a major milestone in the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by completing 111 high-tech superconducting cables. These cables will be used to create the strongest focusing magnets ever installed in an accelerator, condensing particle beams before they collide in detectors. The upgrade, known as the High-Luminosity LHC, will significantly increase the amount of experimental data collected and allow scientists to search for rare phenomena and investigate mysteries in physics. The magnets, made of niobium-tin, will operate at roughly 12 tesla, several hundred thousand times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field.