LHC EXPERIMENTS

ALICE = A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN LHC
ATLAS = A large Toroidal LHC ApparatuS
CMS = The Compact Muon Solenoid an Experiment for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
LHCb = Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment
TOTEM = Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC
LHCf = Large Hadron Collider forward

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TeV

A TeV is a unit of energy used in particle physics. 1 TeV is about the energy of motion of a flying mosquito. What makes the LHC so extraordinary is that it squeezes energy into a space about a million million times smaller than a mosquito.

TeV stands for tera electron Volts. That is 1,000,000,000,000 electron Volts or 1012 electron Volts. [tera - f. Gr.{tau}{geacu}{rho}{alpha}{fsigma} monster.]

An electron volt is an unit of energy, particularly used in atomic and nuclear processes. It is the energy given to an electron by accelerating it through 1 volt of electric potential difference.
The abbreviation for electron volt is eV.

Energies in electron volts



An adult female mosquito weighs only about 2.0 milligrams (about 1/15,000 ounce).

1 eV = 1.6 x 10-19 Joules

1 TeV = 1.6 x 10-19 x 1012 Joules = 1.6 x 10-7 Joules