In a written statement from CERN, it was reported that the LHC, which was started to work again in April after a 3-year hiatus, was operated for the third time today. It was recorded yesterday afternoon that two proton beams were rotated in opposite directions around the 27 kilometer ring of the LHC, with an energy boost of 450 billion electrovolts.
“A GREAT STEP ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE”
The researchers stated that “3 hitherto unseen foreign particles were discovered” with the restart of the LHC, emphasizing that this new discovery is a “big step forward” in the understanding of the universe.
The LHC, which was established at CERN as a result of studies from 1998 to 2008 and is considered the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, was restarted on April 22 after 3 years of maintenance and repair work.
ENERGY RECORD BROKEN WITH 6.8 TRILLION ELECTRO VOLT
As part of the reboot process, it was reported that the energy produced by the proton beams was recorded as 6.8 trillion electro volts (TeV), exceeding the previous energy record.
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.
The Large Hadron Collider is located in a tunnel 175 meters deep and 27 kilometers long in Geneva, Switzerland, near the French border. (AA)