26.12.2015 20:35
The work of scientists of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences will underpin the development of the world’s largest round-robin “collider of the future” so amazing information, told reporters the deputy director for scientific work of the Institute Yevgeny Levichev. Such a large-scale project will be implemented in the European Research Center for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, reports “Interfax».
The European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) has chosen as the base project GI Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP, Novosibirsk) for the construction of the new collider ultrahigh-energy, broader than the Large Hadron, said deputy director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Eugene Levichev.
«We have won the competition, and that is our version was adopted as the base, then this option will be developed », – he said, adding that the conceptual design of the new collider will be prepared in 2018.
Levichev also said that as soon as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was discovered the Higgs boson in 2014 CERN launched a new project – the so-called circular collider of the future (FCC, Future Circular Colliders).
«This is certainly a very ambitious project. If the LHC circumference of about 30 km, following the colliders have a circle of 100 km – an unprecedented installation, which in the history of the Earth has not been », – said E.Levichev.
He He said that in the framework of such a large-scale project is planned to build several colliders – the first stage will be an electron-positron collider with a beam energy of 175 GeV, it is designed for high-accuracy (precision) the study of the Higgs boson.
According to him, INP proposed for the new electron-positron collider own development – the method of meeting the beams, in which the capacity of the plant is increased by about 100 times compared with conventional methods.
In the future, we plan to build a proton collider with an energy beam 50 teraelectronvolt, that greatly exceeds the energy beam of the Large Hadron Collider, component after the upgrade 6.5 teraelectronvolt per proton beam.
«These colliders at ultrahigh energies will be very interesting, that is, where no one had gone human foot, there is a new physics », – summed Levichev.
As previously reported, in July 2012, scientists at CERN have stated that in the course of the experiments at the LHC they have discovered a new elementary particle -” boson Higgs “or” God particle “, which, according to the standard model of physics is the quantum of the special field, which gives other particles their mass and thus created the modern universe.
It was also reported that after the launch in 2015 , after upgrading the LHC, scientists have recorded anomalous decay of the Higgs boson to two different lepton (electron and muon), which does not fit into the standard model.
The idea of the project Large Hadron Collider was born in 1984 and was officially approved by ten years later. Its construction began in 2001, after the end of the previous accelerator – the Large Electron-Positron collider.
Note that the LHC is built on a 100-meter depth under the border of France and Switzerland. It is a circular tunnel in which the set accelerator of charged particles (protons). When they collide at nearly the speed must be born a new elementary particle, whose study will answer the question, what happened in the first moments after the Big Bang.
A great deal of attention from the public and the media is related to the discussion of disasters that may occur in connection with the operation of the LHC. The most frequently discussed risk of microscopic black holes, followed by a chain reaction of capture environmental matter, as well as the threat of strangelets, hypothetically able to convert to strangelet all matter of the universe.
INP – the largest academic institution in Russia, one of the world’s leading centers in high-energy physics and accelerator physics, plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion.
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