GENEVA - Nuclear scientists are ready to smash new frontiers in quantum physics, and crack secrets hidden in so-called dark matter after a 3½-year upgrade of the particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the France-Switzerland border. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and crack secrets hidden in so-called dark matter after a 3½-year upgrade of the particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider on the France-Switzerland border.
The LHC led to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, a particle theorised to provide matter with mass. As a result, the theory’s developers, scientists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert,Researchers from Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, are now ready for a couple of years of intense experimentation with the revamped LHC, which was shut down for its third upgrade at the end of 2018. The next upgrade is scheduled for 2026.
Dark matter – thought to make up more than 85 per cent of the matter in the universe – has so far eluded scientists in their quest to track down its identity. Cern has also made sweeping engineering revamps to the LHC. It boosted the power of injectors and increased the sensitivity of other detectors.
The upgraded detectors allow for better tracking of the collisions which can now occur with greater intensity and frequency. The LHC also has a bigger data capacity with the upgrade.
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