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Il CERN si mette a lavoro: vi presento il PENTAQUARK!

Il CERN si mette a lavoro: vi presento il PENTAQUARK! #Ginevra #CERN #LHC #LHCb #Science #Scienza #LeScienze #Focus

Il potenziamento del CERN, specificatamente dell’LHC, finalmente ha dato i suoi frutti. Niente più parole, ora è tempo di fatti! Possiamo dire di essere giunti, dopo poco più di un mese, alla prima scoperta rilevante portata a termine dal Large Hadron Collider. Precisamente LHCbha svelato una di quelle particelle che si suole definire “Particelle Esotiche” o “effimere” poiché decadono pochissimo…

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Some fantastic news from the LHC!

After a two year shutdown and vast quantities of man-hours spent by engineers, physicists and management, the LHC has finally collided two proton beams at a centre of mass energy of 13 TeV. Once again, breaking the record for the highest energy manmade collisions on Earth!

These fantastic images released by CERN from the ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb experiments show real proton-proton collision data recorded literally last night. There is still work to be done before any data can be recorded and analysed for physics purposes. The beam quality still needs to be tracked and improved before we can be certain that all systems are safe to be used and then the detectors need some time to check the performance of all the upgrades which have been implemented.

If everything is successful, we should see the commencement of Run 2 of the LHC in the Summer!

Who knows what we will find? With the increased energy, the reach of some exotic searches will be much improved. There may be heavy gauge bosons hiding just out of reach of the current data, or supersymmetric particles, or maybe even additional Higgs bosons. 

What we do know is that Run 2 will open the door to much higher luminosity, much larger amounts of data and much larger physics potential. It is certainly an exciting time for experimentalists and theorists alike to see what lies just beyond the horizon.

More information

CERN Press Release 1 CERN Press Release 2 BBC News