LHC approaches 'the seeds of God'

The LHC large particle accelerator has restarted since November 20 and has been active to make up for the lost time of more than a year of suspension for repairs. The first results were published, earlier than expected about 2 weeks.

During the clash of proton beams, the project was named ALICE (short for A Large Ion Collider Experiment) that obtained the first results and the study was published in the European Physical Journal. Journal C.

LHC large particle accelerator.

Protons are particles that carry 1 unit of positive charge, which is the hydrogen atomic nucleus. Collision devices like the LHC are designed so that these particles bump into each other so that they are 'broken' into smaller particles, allowing scientists to learn the most basic components. create material.

With the early results of the LHC, the ALICE project team found that the proton-proton collision recorded on November 23 produced an exact proportion of matter and antimatter particles, just as theory predicted.

That collision happened at the lowest possible energy level of the LHC - each beam has an energy of 450 billion electron volts (GeV), to produce 900 GeV collisions.

David Evans, a physicist from Birmingham University, head of the ALICE project, said: "Only protons and antiprotons can be identified at 900 GeV energy level. Never seen 2 protons."

He added: 'The results show that we understand our detector. Therefore, when creating a higher energy collision, we don't know what the answer will be, the more we believe in our results. '

LHC is getting closer to the "Lord's seeds"

With the current level of activity of the LHC accelerator, high-energy collisions will be made before February 2010 and possibly before Christmas, Evans said.

The LHC is capable of generating collisions at 14 trillion electron-volts (TeV), but most inventions thanks to this device will be made at much lower energy levels.

For example, scientists have predicted that Higgs boson particles, sometimes called 'God's particles', have been searching for a long time and have not been found to be found at one of the three TeV energy levels.

Evans said: "If in February, we created a higher energy level, then it was a good opportunity to detect Higgs' boson . But after months of delay because the LHC broke the electrical, Evans and colleagues received the results of the first collision with reserved optimism.

He commented: "This is a big step and I think everyone is very excited. If it is a careful pilot, I can say that we took off safely. finish'.