Re-launch the world's largest nuclear accelerator

Over the weekend, the European Nuclear Research Organization (CERN) announced the restart of the world's largest nuclear accelerator (LHC) located in the French-Swiss border region in November this year with a capacity of 3 , 5 trillion volts of electrons, meeting the aspirations of the scientific community that aspire to promote experiments to explore cosmic secrets.

However, CERN spokesman James Gillies said the machine will stop operating next year for repairs. Then the LHC accelerator will be able to operate with the most powerful 7 trillion electron volts, seven times more powerful than the most powerful Tevatron machine in Chicago.

CERN has renovated this particle accelerator since the last year's damage due to a malfunction at the electrical connection between the superconducting cable segments of the machine that led to the cooling system ceasing to function. This incident cost 37 million USD from the budget of 20 CERN member countries.

The scientific community hopes the LHC large nuclear accelerator will continue to uncover the mystery of the universe (Photo: AP, New York Times)

53 massive electromagnet blocks were cleaned and repaired after the incident. The soot residue was washed off the pipes so that everything was as clean as new. At the same time tons of supercooled helium solutions are poured into the system to create a cold air environment that helps the LHC circle magnets reach superconductivity. The magnetic field of these magnets will create a vacuum so that two beams of proton particles circulate in opposite directions in the accelerator colliding at the speed of light to be able to reproduce at a small scale "big explosion" (Big Bang).

As soon as the LHC is tested this winter, scientists will be able to continue other experiments to collect data from collisions of protons and ions in the accelerator. They hope that stronger energy will help discover more unrecognized portions, such as the Higgs particle, or " Lord's particle ", that are thought to be the particles that make up the mass of proton-like particles. , neutron.

Spokesman Gillies said CERN experts surveyed every detail in 1,600 super magnetic magnets and 10,000 electronic junctions, as well as protective copper layers of magnets, in case the magnet tubes were hazardous when the cooling system malfunctions similarly to last year.

There is still a lot of concern in the world that explosions from proton beam collisions carried out inside this 27 km long machine can create small black holes capable of absorbing all the materials around them. leads to the end of the world. CERN experts have denied this and confirmed the safety of the upcoming project, because according to Stephen Hawking, the mini black hole will evaporate in just a few milliseconds.