In the Large Hadron Collider first recorded collision beams of protons

The first collision of beams of protons recorded in the Large Hadron Collider - the largest particle accelerators, re-launched after a year of repair near Geneva. Told the European Center

"This is a stunning achievement - progress so far in such a short period of time" - said CERN Director General Rolf Hoyer's, ITAR-TASS. Researcher Center Fabiola Dzhianotti, in turn, said that "this is good news, lift fantastic era of physics and the hope of discovery in June Ez 20 years of effort the international community to build the apparatus and detectors, unprecedented in complexity and characteristics.

Collider was running again last Friday, November 20. There are bunches of protons moving to 27-kilometer tunnel located at a depth of 100 meters on the border between Switzerland and France, almost at the speed of light - for 1 second, they overcome a circular path 11 thousand times acceleration yayemyye thousands of superconducting magnets.

As expected, in January-February, energy beams to reach 7 teraelektronvolt (TeV), or 3.5 TeV beam on which are several times more current. Then start the experiments, which the Council itself, and created accelerator cost 10 billion francs (9.8 billion dollars).

Through analysis of particle collision scientists hope to penetrate into the deeper secrets of matter, achieve the highest of any time studied energies. In the most optimistic result, researchers can reproduce conditions that existed 13 billion years back in 1-2 trillion fraction of a second after the Big Bang that led, one of assessments to the emergence of our universe.

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