CERN: the way collisions records to shed light on dark matter – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

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19:00 June 3, 2015

(AGI) – Rome, June 3 – From the CERN in Geneva first step towards ‘new physics’, able to unravel the mystery of dark matter. They left the collisions between protons accelerated energy record of 13 thousand billion electron volts (TeV 13), almost double that in 2012 had allowed to harness the Higgs boson, and with them and ‘started the collection of data that could revolutionize physics, shedding light on the asymmetry between matter and antimatter. After the test was carried out between May 20 and 21, the experiments that will last three years have been launched in the car more ‘powerful ever built by man: the 27-kilometer ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the superacceleratore Geneva .
super accelerations are recorded by four underground detectors, Atlas, CMS, Alice and Lhcb. It is an energy never before achieved in the laboratory, to which from now on the accelerator and detectors will work regime with the aim of opening a new window on the universe subnuclear. The objective and ‘find the explanation for dark matter which employs more than a quarter of the universe but that the Standard Model theory on the creation of the visible universe is not’ been able to clarify. “It ‘s the time of the new physics”, and’ was the enthusiastic comment of the outgoing director of CERN, Rolf Heuer, who is to be replaced by Italian Fabiola Gianotti. “We saw the first data began to flow in. Let’s see what we will reveal the workings of the universe,” he added. “It will not happen ‘tomorrow, we must have patience,” he noted, to the applause of the team of scientists present. “It ‘really with great satisfaction that we see the beginning of RUN2, a new adventure for the LHC: the commitment that the Member States of CERN and the community’ international scientific devoted for decades to the company and ‘now crowned by this new Scientific and technological progress of the LHC, in which Italy plays a major role, “said Fernando Ferroni, president of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). “That ‘a new historic day, not only for CERN, but for particle physics in general, and above all is the culmination of the hard work of many people who, during the past two years, and it’ worked hard to improve this car, “stressed Mirko Pojer, between those responsible for operation of the LHC. The LHC and ‘the most’ great and powerful accelerator in the world in the shape of a ring of 27 km in circumference located inside a tunnel 80 kilometers underground, between Switzerland and France. In 2012 realization ‘one of the greatest discoveries ever made in the world of physics: empirically demonstrate the existence of the Higgs boson, the “God particle”. (AGI).