Large Hadron Collider will operate on higher energy level this year
CERN, European physics laboratory, has announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will operate at beam energy of 4 trillion electron-volts (TeV) this year, i.e. 0.5 TeV higher than in the first two runs in the previous years i.e. 2010 and 2011.
The laboratory has taken this decision in order to seek out new particles. The CERN’s research director, Sergio Bertolucci, is hopeful to get the facts of Higgs boson by the end of this year. He said,
By the time the LHC goes into its first long stop at the end of this year, we will either know that a Higgs particle exists or have ruled out the existence of a Standard Model Higgs. Either would be a major advance in our exploration of nature, bringing us closer to understanding how the fundamental particles acquire their mass, and marking the beginning of a new chapter in particle physics.
Researchers got encouraging results by the previous energy levels and they are considering this energy level of 4 TeV even more encouraging. After completion of these experiments, LHC will remain silent for 20 months in order to prepare to do work at its full potential of energy i.e. 7 TeV.
Previous operations of the lab showed some evidences of Higgs boson in the range of 124-126 GeV and passed the 4-sigma level of confidence. In order to be officially discovered, Higgs boson must have to get the 5-sigma level of confidence and this year’s operation could help in finalizing the results.
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