In 2012, improving the energy of LHC to reach the design

Scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) plan to stop the large LHC particle accelerator in early 2012 to raise the energy level to the design.

LHC large particle accelerator. Photo: Boston.com.

Mr. Sergio Bertolucci, CERN 's director of research, said this news when participating in the Conference ' But the new prospect of High Energy Physics ' meeting in Novosibirsk (Russia). He said: " By the end of 2011, we will maintain the 3.5 teraelectronvolt energy level to study the current fundamental phenomena that are being observed and plan to improve the capacity of the accelerator. Then it will stop for 1 year. to perfect '.

According to him, after 2012 scientists will begin to implement all measures to improve the energy level of the LHC to reach the design (two beams, each with 7 teraelectrronvolt energy) and simultaneously increase the intensity of the beam (Also called the glow of the experiment, the higher the brightness, the easier it is for scientists to observe the particles.)

2012 will raise the LHC's energy level to design.

Then, in 2016, scientists will conduct experiments and parallel will prepare a project to modernize the entire accelerator. Work plans on the LHC will be expected by 2030.

Iuri Tikhonov, deputy director of the VHLKH Russian Institute of Nuclear Physics, also said that after the first experiments on the LHC, more details of processes such as boson seed production were needed. Higgs and the emergence of supersymmetric particles that only linear accelerators can do.

He said after finding the Higgs boson would be sufficient to determine the energy range to build a linear particle accelerator. This will be a huge project, which involves many countries and of course Russia.

Тikhonov added that investment in linear accelerators would be costly, up to tens of billions of dollars, not only as an academic issue but also as a political issue.

Where the LHC large particle accelerator is located.

The large particle accelerator designed by CERN is located on the border of France and Switzerland with the participation of many physicists, including Russia. With a moving circle of 27 km, proton beams are nearly as fast as light will collide. Physicists hope that the results will allow them to confirm the existence of particles called Higgs bosons - particles, corresponding to the masses of other elementary particles.