![]() And the Higgs is a holy grail because why?ĭr. But more likely, in order to have a complete survey, we need the full energy of the LHC.įLATOW: 1-80 is our number. If we - if it happened to be something within our reach, we would see it in the next couple of years. The Higgs mass is something we don't know. GORDON: It depends on what the mass of the Higgs is. it might take another couple of years.įLATOW: So you have to get all the way up to full operating power before you get to the Higgs level?ĭr. So we could see some results at the end of next year or the following year, but more likely for some of the more difficult experiments like the question of what gives particles their mass, the Higgs boson.ĭr. And then, the window of opportunity will actually be larger. And, hopefully, in 2013, the full energy or near the full energy would be achieved. Then in 2012, the machine will be off for some repairs. That's half the design energy of the LHC. But the energy will only be, as you said, seven trillion electron volts. And we could have some discoveries by the end of next year depending on how lucky we are. GORDON: We have to - as the director general of CERN said this week, we have to have a little bit of patience. And how long before we start seeing, you know, any results? You have a lot of data coming out.ĭr. So the higher the energy the protons have, the more energy those quarks or gluons have, and that's what we need to produce the harder mass.įLATOW: Mm-hmm. What we're really interested in is colliding the quarks or the gluons together. GORDON: Proton is made out of three - what we call valence quarks and held together by the strong force or the gluons. GORDON: What really happens is the proton is not an elementary particle.ĭr. And so we're producing new particles, hopefully, that will give us some understanding of the universe that we're living in.įLATOW: Now, the more electron volts you have, does that give you a bigger mass?ĭr. And what we do is we use Einstein's famous equation, E equals MC squared, to take the energy and produce some mass. They go very close to the speed of light. One and a half electron volts would be the energy we get from a flashlight battery, so you just have to multiply that by three and a half trillion to see the energy that's in that proton. So as you said seven - so each beam of protons has about three and a half trillion electron volts. GORDON: And actually, we were able to take that data across the Atlantic on the fibers and analyze them here in the U.S.įLATOW: What does that mean, seven teravolts?ĭr. It was spectacular to be able to sit here in New York and watch on the Web all of our colleagues in Switzerland, as you say, colliding those protons together and seeing the first collision.ĭr. ATLAS Operations): Thank you, Ira, nice to talk to you.ĭr. ![]() HOWARD GORDON (Deputy Operations Program Manager U.S. ATLAS Operations at CERN, and he's also a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Lab out there in Long Island in Upton. He is the deputy operations program manager for U.S. The particles met at a record breaking seven trillion electrical volts.Īnd joining me now to talk about what all these numbers mean and how much research we can expect to see coming out of it now that it's up and running is Howard Gordon. And they set - they've already set a world record. The LHC - it's up and running again, and on Tuesday physicists flip the switch, send the particle beams going in different directions, right at each other. After being shut down for months of repairs, the Large Hadron Collider - now, that's that giant super-collider that's colliding particles together on the border of France and Switzerland. Up next, a smashing success at the world's largest physics experiment.
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