Prepare for the biggest physics test on earth.

An international research group of 2,000 scientists, led by Professor Tejinder Virdee of Imperial College London School of Physics, is accelerating the process of preparing for the world's largest physics experiment ever. The trial will begin next year at the CERN Institute (European Nuclear Research Organization) near Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor Virdee is the lead scientist of the experiment by detecting the Compact Muon Solenoid ' (CMS) element, to find new elements, small black holes to decipher the mysteries of the universe like where the mass comes from, how many dimensions and what constitutes black matter.

The giant CMS element detector is being assembled one by one under Professor Tejinder Virdee's supervision at Imperial College London.(Photo: Sciencedaily)

Particles are constituents of matter and even smaller than atoms. Scientists hope that CMS testing can also help them to have a unified concept that can explain all physical phenomena - a concept that scientists have not yet achieved.

So far thousands of scientists and engineers have participated in CMS testing. They designed and built a giant element detector for 15 years. The machine is currently being lowered to a room below ground, located 100 meters below the French town of Cessy, near the Swiss border.

The next year, the Large Hadron Collider molecular accelerator of CERN institute will begin to operate. The machine will accelerate the beams of particles around the 27km circular tunnel, located below the Swiss / French town of Cessy. These particles then collide with each other - with much greater energy than any previous test - in an exact position, where the particles move through the detector to CMS.

Professor Virdee explains : When the element strikes each other inside the CMS detector, this impact creates a very large energy state, this state of energy is similar to the state of energy occurring in the first moments of the universe, right after the Big Bang.

The unique conditions created by the impact will create new elements, elements that may also exist in the early times of the universe. The generated particles will fly away from where impact occurs in many directions. The different layers of the complex detector, will calculate the properties of these particles, detect the direction and determine their energy. A powerful magnet inside the detector will bend the path of charged particles, helping us to identify the different types of particles generated in the impact.

One of the elements that Professor Virdree and colleagues hope to detect is the Higgs-Boson element, a new element that has been confirmed in theory but in fact it has never been found. 'It is extraordinary if we find it, for the first time ever, the existence of Higgs-Boson, ' Professor Virdee said.

'Scientists believe that Higgs-Boson is a particle that provides mass for other particles like electrons and many other particles. If we can prove that it exists through this experiment, we will have a huge step forward in understanding the entire way in which the universe works and obviously what happens at times right away. after the universe formed. '

The CMS detector is one of four tests located at various locations in the 27km long rim of the CERN accelerator. The creation of the CMS is an international effort, in which different parts of the different classes of machines are made by scientists from 37 different countries around the world.

The components of CMS with a weight of 2000 tons, are being lowered gradually, by a special crane, down to a depth of 100 meters into an underground room, where they will be reassembled and prepared for data collection throughout the following year. As expected, the accelerator will start operating just before Christmas 2007, and at that time, the data will begin to be recorded.

Thanh Van