Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Largest particle accelerator in the world starts second season – TVI24

The largest particle accelerator in the world, the LHC, the CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research), started this Wednesday a new phase experiments to try to understand the mysteries of matter and the universe, after two years stopped for maintenance and repair. The next three years we intend to obtain data to understand the mysteries of matter, with the maximum power for the collision of protons of 13 TeV (trillion electron volts), a level reached record power for the first time in a test conducted in May this year.

According to CERN, “the recovery of data acquisition will mark the beginning of the second season of the LHC and will create opportunities in territory not yet explored by physics.”

Every second there are more than one billion collisions, generating avalanches of particles in the holders.

The LHC confirmed in 2012, the existence of the Higgs Boson, also known as ‘God particle’, which, for the physical, is considered the master key of the fundamental structure of matter.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC in the English acronym) at CERN, institution located on the Franco-Swiss border and of which Portugal is a member, is located in a circular tunnel 27 kilometers in underground.
 
                                                                                     

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment