Start of work and deterioration of LHC

2008/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Fisika

The CERN laboratory inaugurated the accelerator LHC (Large Hadron Collider) on September 10. It is the largest and most powerful accelerator to accelerate protons and other particles, located in a 27-kilometer tunnel buried under the city of Geneva. In this tunnel, there was another powerful accelerator called LEP, but seven and a half years ago physicists decided to dismantle and dismantle it to build a new one.

The time elapsed from the LEP accelerator stop to the launch of the LHC has been a long stop of research. The decision was difficult seven years ago, but it is believed that the capacity of the LHC will merit lost time. It will accelerate the protons with very high energy, with energy of 7 TeV, to provoke the clash between them. In these collisions, among other things, the remains of the Higgs boson are sought. At the moment no one has found the Higgs boson. If they find it, that is, if the particle exists, the physicists will confirm the most accepted theory that explains the origin of the mass. The main objective of the new LHC is to generate very high energy collisions. However, physicists will have to wait in the coming months because the LHC, shortly after its start-up, has suffered a helium leak. They will not be able to experience during the escape resolution.