The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 1998 to 2008
- the aim of allowing physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics and high-energy physics,
- prove or disprove the existence of the theorized Higgs boson.
- It lies in a tunnel 17 mile in circumference, as deep as 574 ft beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
- LHC - the aim of the exercise: To smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang.
The LHC is composed of 4 main scientific stations:
1. ALICE
2. ATLAS
3. CMS
4. LHCb
Temperatures generated at the Large Hadron Collider in the experiments can be compared to the vacuum of space.
Colliding protons generate temperatures at the LHC one billion times hotter than the center of the sun.
Why do we have mass? One possibility sought after in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider is Higg's Boson.
The matter we know is 5% of the universe, the rest is dark matter.
The Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to 99% of the speed of light.
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN could be the most ambitious scientific undertaking ever. The results of LHC experiments will probably change our fundamental knowledge of the universe.
CERN is the world's largest laboratory dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science.
