LHC; successful attempts COLLISIONS subatomic particles to enter new era
GENEVA .- With a year and a half late to adjust and calibrate the LHC and with 6 failures after scientists in charge of the largest particle collider in the world indicated that managed to trigger accelerated proton collisions at 0, 9999999% the speed of light (up to 1000 million km / h) and generate a record energy 7 trillion electron volts to try to recreate Condic ions similar to the Big Bang after 2 fractions of seconds for which the universe emerged. This first joy
generated a party to celebrate the first step of a new era of scientific studies on the matter in the near future will answer some questions about the creation of the universe.
"This is pure physics in action, the beginning of a new era, with collisions of 7 TeV [tera]," said Paola Catapano , scientific spokesman for the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, to take part the experiment illustrated Steve Myers and technological prowess to align infinitesimal particle beams by superconducting magnets cooled close to absolute zero temperature. "It's a great time for science", said CERN Director General, Rolf Heuer, in a videoconference from Japan, barely containing his excitement.
The cheers of joy broke into the ATLAS control room when the detectors Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 27 kilometers long and 100 m deep, installed at the border between France and Switzerland, marked the collision of particles s ubatómicas to nearly the speed of light. Twice circulating beams in opposite directions by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC , English acronym), the CERN accelerator, failed to achieve their goal and you were lost Karsten Eggert said he had begun at 5 am (time 0 in Argentina .)
"We are a billionth of a second after the Big Bang", AFP said CERN spokesman James Gillies.
"Certainly we will be repeating the feat several times in the next week and during the year," said the scientist , who had compared the experiment with the launch of two needles from different sides of the Atlantic, waiting to collide.
"We had some small problems, "said Paul Collier, head of CERN's beam. " It's the kind of thing that happens with such a complex machine. In an hour and a half inject a new beam. Meanwhile Mario Martinez, a English scientist of the ATLAS experiment - one of the four large detectors responsible for collecting the information generated from the collision- explained that whenever a failure should attempt to restart a process that takes about three hours where you have to relax the magnets, re-inject protons and start increasing the power.
"After almost 20 years, now let exploring new territory," said the Swedish scientist Erik Johansson, explaining that accelerating and colliding protons secret hope to solve that energy and dark matter, which forms most of the universe, antimatter or find the famous Higgs boson particle ( called the God particle ), a kind of cosmic molasses scattered in space that would be the mass of subatomic particles interact. The existence of this particle, is considered essential to explain why elementary particles have mass and why the masses are so different.
"Now we are just trying to two beams in each direction, but at the end of the experiment within two years, we want to do collision about 2800 in each direction, to cause millions of collisions, after which there will be a stop for a year, "said the scientist Michael Barnett. Seven TeV is half the rated power throttle, and only after that long pause, where it has been thoroughly reviewed all the gear, we will try to reach speeds of 14 TeV.
What gave birth to the cosmos was the violent expansion of matter and energy in space-time a temperature that reached a billion degrees in there was a "soup" of particles interacting with each other in various mergers atomic and what is intended emulate the conditions of that moment after the first major expansion, which reproduces the Big Bang is impossible said Dr. Maria Teresa Dova, a researcher who works at CERN of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). This milestone
science and technology is the first step of the beginning of a great adventure without limit will advance knowledge of the matter does not emit dark subcategories radicción but constitute 23% of the density of the cosmos and that together with the hypothetical dark matter would be responsible for the universe to expand rapidly. Also the LHC could clarify the existence of supersymmetry to postulate that each particle has a partner who is attracted and hence the asymmetry between matter and antimatter without which we and the universe exist.
The new stage, called "Physics First" is the beginning of a series of similar clashes million over a period of 18 to 24 months.
should be analyzed in many millions of collisions to detect results that are interesting to define the scientific pose our questions and scientists pose perform 200 events / sec in order to select the algorithms necessary to enable us to learn by doing, to discover the particles of interest to us as the graviton or others that make up dark matter. In this regard the experiment could also clarify the "dark matter" and "dark energy" invisible matter could explain 96% of cosmos.Aun so, the LHC is currently operating without its full potential because it's designed to produce collisions at a rate of 14 TeV, or 99.99% the speed of light, which could reach 2012.
also need to deepen knowledge on the GRID, the high-speed electronic network that allows scientists to participate in real time in the experiments.
In the coming months will slowly climb forward in numbers by preserving shock and thus avoid instabilities us little by little iremos conociendo como y cuáles son los ojetivos científicos buscados.
Recreación animada de la colisión de partículas en el LHC para intentar reproducir el Big Bang
Agencias EFE y AFP
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. .. earthquakes can move the earth's axis shortening the days ...?
Washington, 2 mar (EFE).- El terremoto que estremeció Chile el pasado fin de semana puede haber mo vido el eje de la Tierra y acortado la duración de cada día, según un investigador de la agencia espacial estadounidense NASA.
Ecuador repatría a los compatriotas afectados por el terremoto en Chile y el Ministro de Interior culpa a las FFAA de la tardía respuesta Government after the earthquake of a replica of 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale shook central Chile.
Richard Gross, a scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (California), took the bills to determine how changed the Earth's rotation as a result of the earthquake in Chile, which had a magnitude of 8.8 degrees Richter scale.
According to a report, Gross and colleagues resorted to a complex model calculations and reached the preliminary conclusion that the strong shaking should have shortened the Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one millionth second.
But even more impressive is that according to computer calculations of Gross, would have moved the figure axis of the Earth, this is the line about which is the planet's mass balance, and may have strayed into 2 , 7 millarsegundos, this is about 8 inches.
The figure axis of the Earth is not the same as its north-south axis from pole to pole. Both lines are separated by about 10 meters.
Gross explained that the same model calculations concluded that a 9.1 degree magnitude earthquake occurred in Sumatra in 2004 should have shortened day length by 6.8 microseconds, and may have moved the figure axis 2.32 Earth millarsegundos, about 7 centimeters.
Gross said that even though the earthquake in Chile was much lower than that of Sumatra, may have changed much more the position of figure axis of the Earth for two reasons. One is that the Sumatra earthquake was located near Ecuador, while that of Chile occurred in mid-latitudes for which may have had greater impact on the diversion of the figure axis.
Secondly, the geological fault where the earthquake struck Chile enters the Earth at an angle slightly steeper than the fault that caused the 2004 earthquake in Sumatra. This makes Chile's failure gives can move vertically more effect, the land mass.
Any world event involving the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, "agreed another expert from NASA, Benjamin Fong Chao, quoted by CNN.
The reason is that a strong earthquake moves massive amounts of rocks, which alters the distribution of the mass of the planet, he said.
Other events, however, may lengthen the days.
The situation was worse for small villages along the coast that were devastated by a Tsunami tidal wave and the fury of the waves rose up to 400 m in, leveled hundreds of homes located between Central Coast Llo-Lleo and the southern port of Talcahuano.
Washington, 2 mar (EFE).- El terremoto que estremeció Chile el pasado fin de semana puede haber mo vido el eje de la Tierra y acortado la duración de cada día, según un investigador de la agencia espacial estadounidense NASA.
Ecuador repatría a los compatriotas afectados por el terremoto en Chile y el Ministro de Interior culpa a las FFAA de la tardía respuesta Government after the earthquake of a replica of 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale shook central Chile.
Richard Gross, a scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (California), took the bills to determine how changed the Earth's rotation as a result of the earthquake in Chile, which had a magnitude of 8.8 degrees Richter scale.
According to a report, Gross and colleagues resorted to a complex model calculations and reached the preliminary conclusion that the strong shaking should have shortened the Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one millionth second.
But even more impressive is that according to computer calculations of Gross, would have moved the figure axis of the Earth, this is the line about which is the planet's mass balance, and may have strayed into 2 , 7 millarsegundos, this is about 8 inches.
The figure axis of the Earth is not the same as its north-south axis from pole to pole. Both lines are separated by about 10 meters.
Gross explained that the same model calculations concluded that a 9.1 degree magnitude earthquake occurred in Sumatra in 2004 should have shortened day length by 6.8 microseconds, and may have moved the figure axis 2.32 Earth millarsegundos, about 7 centimeters.
Gross said that even though the earthquake in Chile was much lower than that of Sumatra, may have changed much more the position of figure axis of the Earth for two reasons. One is that the Sumatra earthquake was located near Ecuador, while that of Chile occurred in mid-latitudes for which may have had greater impact on the diversion of the figure axis.
Secondly, the geological fault where the earthquake struck Chile enters the Earth at an angle slightly steeper than the fault that caused the 2004 earthquake in Sumatra. This makes Chile's failure gives can move vertically more effect, the land mass.
Any world event involving the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, "agreed another expert from NASA, Benjamin Fong Chao, quoted by CNN.
The reason is that a strong earthquake moves massive amounts of rocks, which alters the distribution of the mass of the planet, he said.
Other events, however, may lengthen the days.
The situation was worse for small villages along the coast that were devastated by a Tsunami tidal wave and the fury of the waves rose up to 400 m in, leveled hundreds of homes located between Central Coast Llo-Lleo and the southern port of Talcahuano.
Islanders Chile Juan Fernández archipelago felt a slight tremor in the morning and continued to sleep without realizing that in a few minutes the island was devastated by the tsunami and the alert never came. In the morning they could see the damage the earthquake that was centered north of Concepción and when the tide began to rise was no alternative to the siren call warning of imminent danger of tsunami since the delay announcement left the residents without action . There, the islanders of Robinson Crusoe had to run to the hills desperate to no time to save a few belongings. A 16 m wave that swept everything in its path within minutes, cemeteries, churches, sports facilities and a school was reduced to floating loose boards and some government buildings disappeared.
Once the water receded the Robinson Crusoe island was flooded but this time of desolation and the mud was covered 3 km from the interior to the coast.
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