Large Hadron Collider at CERN breaks energy record
1Large Hadron Collider at CERN breaks energy record
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been restarted. The energy record was broken with 6.8 trillion electro volts in the experiment. The last experiment revealed a quartet of subatomic particles called the top quark.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was built at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland to search for a new force outside of the four fundamental forces in nature, was restarted after 3 years of maintenance.
LHC proton beams broke the record, releasing higher energy than the electron energy obtained in the previous experiment.
In the post made on CERN's Twitter account, it was reported that the energy produced by the proton beams was recorded as 6.8 trillion electrovolts (TeV) and exceeded the previous energy record, as part of the restart process entered on April 22, when two proton beams were rotated around the LHC ring.
The LHC was restarted on April 22 after 3 years of maintenance and repairs.
CERN Accelerators and Technology Director Mike Lamont announced that after a long consolidation program, the LHC will now operate with higher energy and more data will be extracted from the next LHC experiments.
"UPPER QUARK" DISCOVERED IN LAST EXPERIMENT
The Large Hadron Collider, which was established at CERN as a result of studies from 1998 to 2008 and is considered the largest and most powerful particle collider in the world, is located in a tunnel 175 meters deep and 27 kilometers long, near the French border in Geneva, Switzerland. .
In the latest experiment with the collider, which was set up to investigate whether there is a new force other than the four fundamental forces in nature, a type of quaternary subatomic particle called "top quark" was revealed.
CERN researchers stated that in the proton collisions in the Atlas experiments with the LHC in 2015-2018, four top quarks were observed with a standard deviation close to what was previously predicted in the Standard Model theory in physics.