Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom along the French-SWISS border
Scientists In the largest Smasher atom in the world he has released a project for a much bigger successor that could help resolve the remaining enigmas of physics.
The plans for the future circular collider-a cycle of almost 91 kilometers (56.5 miles) along the French-Swiss border and even under the lake Geneva – Posted late on Monday he put the finishing details on a project about a decade. CERNThe European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The study exposes characteristics such as the proposed path, the environmental impact, the scientific ambitions and the cost of the project. Independent experts will take a look in front of the two dozens of the member countries of the European Cern-tutti with the exception of Israel-Nel 2028 whether to go on, starting from the mid-1920s at a cost of about 14 billion Swiss francs (about $ 16 billion).
CERN officials have propagated the promise of scientific discoveries that could guide innovation in areas such as cryogenic, superconductors and emptiness technologies that could benefit from humanity. External experts indicated the promise to learn more about Higgs Bosonthe elusive particle that helped to explain how the matter was formed after the Big Bang
“This set of relationships represents an important milestone in the process, but a full sense of the probability of being made will be known only through careful studies of scientists, engineers and others, including politicians who must make difficult decisions when uncertainty governs the day,” said Dave Tovack, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, in an e-mail.
The new collider “offers and exciting opportunities for the particle physics community, and in fact all physics, on the world phase,” said Tuback, who was not affiliated to the study and who worked for years at the Fermiilab Tevatron Collider in the United States that was closed in 2011.
For about a decade, the best minds of CERN have prepared plans for a successor of the great Hadron Collider, a network of magnets that accelerate the particles through an underground tunnel of 27 kilometers (17 miles) and bangs them together with the speeds that approach the speed of light.
He works at the collider of particles confirmed in 2013 the existence of the Higgs Bosone – the central piece in a puzzle known as the standard model that helps to explain some fundamental forces in the universe.
Scientists, engineers and partners of the CERN behind the study considered at least 100 different scenarios for the new collider before finding the surrounding circumference of 91 kilometers at an average depth of 200 meters (656 feet). The tunnel would be about 5 meters (16 feet) in diameter, said CERN.
“In the end what we would like to do is a collider that will emit ten times more energy than we have today,” said Arnaud Marsolier, spokesman for Cern. “When you have more energy, you can create heavier particles.”
A larger collider would also offer greater precision to help the peculiarities of the Higgs boson, which “now we have a kind of blurred image,” he added.
