2008 February 25

유럽원자연구소에서 만들고 있는 인류역사상 가장 강력한 입자 가속기가 완성단계에 들어섰습니다. 위 그림은 이 가속기의 일부인 여섯개의 거대한 일명 ATLAS 디텍터라고 합니다. 입자 물리학에 지식이 있으신 회원님들의 안내가 있었으면 좋겠습니다.

Explanation: Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe's CERN has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans. This May, the LHC is scheduled to start smashing protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds. The LHC will explore the leading explanation that mass arises from ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive field of virtual Higgs particles. Were high energy colliding particles to create real Higgs bosons, the Higgs mechanism for mass creation may be bolstered. LHC will also look for micro black holes, magnetic monopoles, and explore the possibility that every type of fundamental particle we know about has a nearly invisible supersymmetric counterpart. The LHC@Home project will allow anyone with a home computer to help LHC scientists search archived LHC data for these strange beasts. Pictured above, a person stands in front of the huge ATLAS detector, one of six detectors being attached to the LHC.