LHC, the coolest
This is not a cut/copy - paste article, but one in my own words...except for the experimental data.
The LHC or the Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built between 1983 to 1988, and the 3.8 m (diameter) concrete-lined tunnel was previously used to house the Large Electron-Positron Collider. Located beneath the Franco-Swiss border, mostly in France(the region beneath the Jura Mntns. and the Alps), it houses scientists from about 85 different countries & was built by CERN( European Organisation for Nuclear Research).
The basic idea is to accelerate 2 opposing beams of protons, to such a high value that is comparable to the speed of light. Once the LHC is switched on, its been estimated that it'll be 6 to 8 weeks before the desired collision takes place.
The aim of this magnificent experiment is to study the Standard Model of creation, to verify the Big Bang theory and also study the formation of Higgs bosons alongwith microscopic Black Holes.
Higgs bosons are so important to us, as they've been theoretically claimed to have bestowed upon elementary particles the wonderful property of mass at the time of creation.
This is not a cut/copy - paste article, but one in my own words...except for the experimental data.
The LHC or the Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built between 1983 to 1988, and the 3.8 m (diameter) concrete-lined tunnel was previously used to house the Large Electron-Positron Collider. Located beneath the Franco-Swiss border, mostly in France(the region beneath the Jura Mntns. and the Alps), it houses scientists from about 85 different countries & was built by CERN( European Organisation for Nuclear Research).
The basic idea is to accelerate 2 opposing beams of protons, to such a high value that is comparable to the speed of light. Once the LHC is switched on, its been estimated that it'll be 6 to 8 weeks before the desired collision takes place.
The aim of this magnificent experiment is to study the Standard Model of creation, to verify the Big Bang theory and also study the formation of Higgs bosons alongwith microscopic Black Holes.
Higgs bosons are so important to us, as they've been theoretically claimed to have bestowed upon elementary particles the wonderful property of mass at the time of creation.
A simulated event in the CMS detector, featuring the appearance of the Higgs boson or the God particle.LHC experiments:
ATLAS
A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMS
Compact Muon Solenoid
LHCb
LHC-beauty
ALICE
A Large Ion Collider Experiment
TOTEM
Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation
LHCf
LHC-forward
LHC preaccelerators
p and Pb
Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 2) and Lead (Linac 3)
(not marked)
Proton Synchrotron Booster
PS
Proton Synchrotron
SPS
Super Proton Synchrotron
Hadron Colliders
Intersecting Storage Rings
CERN, 1971–1984
Super Proton Synchrotron
CERN, 1981–1984
ISABELLE
BNL, cancelled in 1983
Tevatron
Fermilab, 1987–2009
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
BNL, operational since 2000
Superconducting Super Collider
Cancelled in 1993
Large Hadron Collider
CERN, 2008–
Very Large Hadron Collider
Theoretical
The LHC was switched on on the 10th of September, 2008, and now that's its on, scientists predict that it may take atlest 3 yeas to confirm the presence of the Higgs boson, as sufficient, unambiguous data has to be produced in the form of statistics, etc. The condition being that if the Standard Model is correct, a Higg's boson will be produced every few hours.
Besides, in order that meaningful conclusions be drawn it may take a year or so before the presence of supersymmetric particles is confirmed.
SUPERSYMMETRY: also known s SUSY.used in particle physics symmetry that relates one elementay particle of one spin to another particle differing only by half a unit of spin, and are known as superpartners.
I was surprised to know that proton is one of the sub-groups of a class of particles called hadrons. Read it in TOI first.
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