Thursday, February 19, 2015

‘The God Particle’: Revolutionizing Particle Physics

It is a tremendous attempt to revolutionize the belief of having a sub-atomic particle called the Higgs Boson, an unstable particle, so elusive that it is generally referred to as "the God Particle" in Particle Physics. The near about completion of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); in an enormous spherical underground tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border; is a step in the process of materializing the dream of Particle Physicist. 




The purpose of this particular experiment is to prove the existence of "the God Particle", which may redefine the concepts of Particle Physics. It will also help in investigating ‘SUPERSYMMETRY’, the inscrutability of ‘MATTER AND ANTI-MATTER’ and also will reproduce the initial instants after the ‘BIG BANG’. The exorbitant expenditure of 6 billion dollars involved in the project will be worthwhile if the gamble pays off.

The LHC is the largest high-energy particle accelerator ever built, which will speed up beams of hydrogen protons, amazingly to 99.9999 per cent of the speed of light. It will have the capability to smash heavy ions with each other at the rate of a billion collisions per second; producing a temperature 100,000 times hotter than the centre of the Sun. the phenomenon will destroy the particles giving out quarks, muons, pions and other exotically-named members of the sub-atomic bestiary which will be very specifically get detected by massive detectors placed within the chambers of LHC.

Eventually, the process is in itself huge but is worth the implementation, as it will clarify many un about Particle Physics and will generate many new horizons in the exploration of the same.


Source: refinery29

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