The LHC particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland is a fascinating project: thousands of scientists from all over the world have been working there since 2009 – with an annual budget of around €1 billion. 27 km of tunnels were dug near Geneva. Researchers fired 100 meters underground With unimaginable energy, millions and millions of particles collide every day.
The world’s largest particle accelerator
The goal is nothing less than to find answers to the basic questions of physics: the particle accelerator has already achieved a number of successes, including Experimental proof of the Higgs boson ten years ago. But the problems of the Standard Model are still open, the question of gravity and so on dark matter secrets. And these are just some particle physics building sites.
Accordingly, science is full of hope for the third stage of operation of the LHC: after the particle accelerator Renovated and remodeled over three yearsIt’s been up and running again since the summer — with a slightly different approach than before, Mike Zeitz explains. Because unlike, say, the Higgs boson, one is now looking less for specific answers and more for distortions in the measurement data. The hope is that these can provide the first clues to answers to the big questions of the universe.
To ensure the third operational phase is also successful, researchers will have to overcome a number of challenges. can for example The current energy crisis is making things difficult for the project. in conversation with detector. fmModerator Mark Zimmer explains to Zeitz how the particle accelerator works and how things will go with the LHC in the coming years.
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