Increase the capacity of particle accelerators to 10 times larger

Physicists all over the world on November 16 launched an important program to turn the Large Grain Accelerator (LHC), which is now in a 27km long tunnel near the Swiss-French border, into a deck space research machine is much stronger at the end of 2020.

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Officials from the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) said the program, which attracted scientists from the European Union (EU), the US and Japan, requires the development of new technologies in the fields. the area from super magnets leads to energy transmission lines.

After being upgraded, scientists can increase the capacity of making proton beam collisions in the LHC 10 times more than the hundreds of millions in a second, so that could be gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental particles and structure of the universe.

Mr. Sergio Bertolucci, research director at CERN, said that with such special physical processes, extremely high brightness is important for scientists to make accurate measurements and detect new points. Increasing the number of collisions will increase the brightness of the processes that occur.

Scientists at CERN are watching the collisions in the LHC have discovered some new points, but so far nothing has put human knowledge beyond what scientists call tissue. Standard Model (Standard Model) about the operation of the universe.

However, physicists are hoping for an LHC upgrade, a small increase in brightness in 2012 that will provide evidence of the existence of a basic particle called Higg Boson, supposedly made volume for material.

Then, at the end of 2012, the LHC will be transformed to double the brightness, and CERN researchers will look for what they call "new physics" or phenomena outside the standard model.

Scientists hope that they will then have a deeper understanding of "dark matter" , making up about 23% of the universe, the idea of "supersymmetry" helps explain the properties of gravity and how " dark energy " causes the expansion of the universe.

Finally, upgrading the capacity of the LHC to 10 times is expected to bring human knowledge further into the field now completely speculating on issues such as real nature. the time and existence of other universes.

Verify exactly how the Big Bang fragments occurred 13.7 billion years ago together creating stars, planets, and other objects of the universe as one of the priorities of LHC in the early stages.