Large Hadron Collider (Large Hadron Collider, or LHC) is The world’s largest particle accelerator. Physicists are accelerating them to enormous speeds because such collisions create other particles that they can study.
The collider was launched on the French-Swiss border near Geneva in 2009. Three years later, in 2012, data from the collisions made it possible to reveal the last particle sought by physicists – the Higgs boson. The accelerator worked until 2019. Then it was decided to increase its power.
The business lasted three years and The LHC began operating after an outage last Friday, April 22. Three days were enough for him to break the energy record for accelerating particles. It was previously 6.5 TeV, and now it has been announced that the collision energy has reached 6.8 TeV. This is very close to the maximum power of 7TB.
Why do physicists accelerate and collide particles together? This allows you to check theoretical predictions computed from equations. it’s called Standard FormIt was developed until the seventies of the last century. let me expect Discovering the Higgs bosonthe last particle is missing from him.
Unfortunately, the Standard Model doesn’t explain everything. It does not explain why particles have the same mass and not another mass. Physicists believe that this is not a complete model. There may be physical laws that are not yet known.
The improvement of the LHC is the narrowing of the beams of accelerating protons. This will make them collide with each other more often and the physicists will have more data. It would be 30 million particle collisions per second.
The Large Hadron Collider has also been equipped with new detectors (FASER and SND @ LHC), which aims to research the effects of new particles and the laws of physics. The results of proton collisions may explain what they are made of dark matter. This is because 80% of the matter in the universe attracts both normal and visible matter – but we don’t know what dark matter is.
Experiments at the Enhanced Large Hadron Collider will continue until 2026.
