A simulated event in the CMS detector, featuring the appearance of
the
Higgs boson
- THE GOD PARTICLE
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THE SEARCH FOR
GODS PARTICLE -
HIGGS BOSON STARTS TODAY MARCH 31, 2010 IN THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER :
a 27-kilometre-long underground
magnetic track near Geneva
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The secrets waiting to be unlocked inside the Large Hadron Collider, a
27-kilometre-long underground magnetic track near Geneva where atoms
smash into each other to create huge amounts of energy, could be
world-changing, scientists say. Textbooks will be rewritten as the
universe is understood in a whole new light......
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Map of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
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The Large Hadron Collider:
A step closer to the beginning of time
A monitor showing the first ultra high-energy collisions is seen at
the
CMS experiment control room of
the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) on March 30, 2010.
Canadian physicist James Pinfold tells Sarah Boesveld about his team's
work on the potentially world-changing collider
(From: Canadian
Globe and Mail,
Mar. 31, 2010: Sarah Boesveld:
THE GLOBE AND MAIL/THE CANADIAN PRESS/THE NEW YORK TIMES/GRAPHIC NEWS /
SOURCES: CERN; ESRI; WWW.PARTICLEADVENTURE.ORG; AP
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It's the world's biggest science experiment - and Canada is a part of
it.
The secrets waiting to be unlocked inside the Large Hadron Collider, a
27-kilometre-long underground magnetic track near Geneva where atoms
smash into each other to create huge amounts of energy, could be
world-changing, scientists say. Textbooks will be rewritten as the
universe is understood in a whole new light.
University of Alberta professor James Pinfold is heading the MoEDAL
experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as
CERN. His mission? With his team of 26 physicists from around the world,
he'll seek out the hypothetical magnetic monopole - a single magnetic
charge, or pole, that is predicted in the grand unified theory and
string theory.
The particle physicist spoke with The Globe about the significance of
the Large Hadron Collider and Canada's involvement.
Why is there such fanfare over the LHC, which started up today?
We have something that explains all physics as we know it today and it's
called the Standard Model. The Standard Model predicts one particle that
we haven't yet seen and that's the Higgs boson. So we want to try to
discover the Higgs boson. And if the Standard Model is correct, we
should see the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, so it's a big
discovery that's going to be made.
And you're on the hunt for monopoles in particular. Why is it important
to locate them?
It will alter our fundamental understanding of nature. If we discover
monopoles, we discover that magnetic charges come separately as well as
electric charges. This will be an absolutely revolutionary thing for
physics. It will be a fundamental change in our understanding and be an
immensely important result.
How much energy do you need to run your experiment in the collider?
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We're just starting out with seven [million million electronvolts]
Tuesday and Wednesday. When we run at 14 million million electronvolts,
we'll recreate the universe as it was in this little teeny region of the
collision. We'll recreate the universe as it was just a
million-millionth of a second after the Big Bang. So it's immense
energies, but only in teeny, teeny regions, so it won't do a ton of
damage.
What kind of damage? There are all kinds of fears that these experiments
will put the world at risk.
The energy's so dense, it could trigger all kinds of things. It could
trigger mini-black holes, it could trigger the vacuum decay - but let's
not worry too much about that.
What would a mini-black hole look like?
It's a particle, you wouldn't even see it. What people are scared it
could do is suck in matter and start to suck in the Earth and then
destroy the Earth. But with a mini-black hole, this can't be done.
Cosmic rays collide at much higher energies with the Earth than we could
ever make, and they've never destroyed the Earth or the universe or
anything at all.
Will these experiments and potential discoveries change our lives in any
way?
It's a bit like the space race; when people landed on the moon, it
didn't really impact our lives at all, though it was brilliant to see
what humankind could do. I would always see the LHC not as the space
race, but as the inner space race. It won't impact our lives, but in the
future I think it will.
How?
For example, the monopole, if we gathered enough of them, could create
very strong materials that could be used in industrial activity. They
could also make super-dense computer memories. |
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......THE CRITICS:
SCIENTISTS, THEOLOGIANS AND MORE....
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Some in the science community fear the energy created by the mammoth
particle-smasher will create black holes that will consume the Earth and
end humankind. Critics have asked scientists to cease work on the
collider until a more thorough safety review can be completed, and
challenges to the collider have been filed in U.S. Federal Court and the
European Court of Human Rights. Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho filed
suit in 2008, alleging that the collider could burp up something called
a "strangelet" that would reduce the Earth to a shrunken ball of
"strange matter," The New York Times reported. The suit also claims CERN
has not provided an environmental impact statement as demanded under the
U.S. National Environmental Policy Act.
For some, recreating the environment around the Big Bang violates
religious beliefs. Fundamentalist Christians, among others, reject the
idea that a high-energy collection of atoms created the universe and
believe God created it instead. And then there are those who thought the
world would end when the collider started up and hurried to get in a few
crucial life experiences before their impending death. Britain's Daily
Telegraph reported that an Australian girl wanted to lose her virginity
before it charged up for the first time temporarily in 2008 because she
believed Armageddon would soon follow.
Sarah Boesveld
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THE ATLAS PROJECT
Canada has contributed $30-million and more than 150 scientists, mainly
to the ATLAS project
STEP BY STEP
1. Particles injected in the smaller machines arrive at the Super Proton
Synchrotron
2. Particles are transferred to the LHC, forming two beams travelling in
opposite directions
3. Particles accelerated to near the speed of light and collide at four
points where the two rings intersect
Data at the four collision points is analyzed
THE HIGGS BOSON
ATLAS will search for the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that
is thought to give mass to all matter.
To account for the origin of mass, physicists are looking for proof of a
hypothetical "Higgs field," which contains Higgs particles and permeates
all of space. As particles travel through the viscous field, they
experience various amounts of drag, which gives them mass.
Upon collision, particles curve depending on their charge
Clustering of field creates drag (mass) |
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Graphic: The Large Hadron Collider
Protons - produced by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms - will
smash together at four collision points, monitored by complex devices
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