2016 will be the year of science: the objectives of CERN signed Gianotti – Intelligonews

“We will try to understand the composition of dark matter it is one of the great challenges of 2016″.

It ‘as stated by Fabiola Gianotti, from 1 January 2016 the Directorate-General of CERN: “I will be at CERN for five years – has annunciato- then come back to do the physical.”

The Gianotti therefore gives top priority agenda of his work as director general of CERN understanding of what, by all scientists, could be the discovery of the century, namely the presence of a new particle created in the collisions between protons, it never observed before.

The data are to be confirmed and currently “the statistical significance of the results is low.” The journal Nature showed that in less than 15 days have been published 95 articles on the website arXiv, all developed by theoretical physicists offering each their own key to understanding the nature of any particle.

To Fabiola Gianotti, you will understand what it is made of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible matter that makes up approximately 25% of the universe. The elusive particles that are could be generated by collisions of the largest accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. This would then pass once and for all from theory to practice, from mere hypotheses in accredited scientific data and supported by scientific evidence.

A hunt for dark matter there is also the AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2) installed on the International Space Station. Designed for the search for new types of particles through the Precision measuring the composition of cosmic rays, transmit the data collected for the CERN laboratories and the National Center for Research and Development in Information Technology and Telematic (CNAF) INFN.

But the objectives in this 2016 almost upon us, and many are also ambitious.

In the field of physics is to achieve the goal of capturing CO2 from the air while on front biomedical you point on the results that may go with the technique of “cut and paste” DNA, the CRISPR that so far did discuss a lot, but at the same time opens up new perspectives

That’s not all, Then there are the long-awaited conquest of space by landing on Mars; Europe is waiting for the launch of the ExoMars mission, designed in 2016 to demonstrate its ability to land a rover on the red planet and, in 2018, to pierce the Martian soil to a depth of two meters. Still on the subject of space, we look forward to the French mission Microscope, which will play among the stars the experiment of falling bodies of Galileo.

So many expectations for many projects. But really they see the light or will be expected to remain in the precincts of science fiction?