CERN officials have announced that after a three-year hiatus, scientific operations on the Large Hadron Collider will resume on July 5, 2022. This is the same collider that discovered the Higgs boson exactly ten years before today, in 2012, after which the standard model of quantum physics was completed, that is, all the basic particles that were predicted in the standard model have been discovered.
This collider is the most powerful machine in the world in which protons are accelerated in a very powerful magnetic field which generates immense kinetic energy in them - then the beams of these protons collide with each other causing the protons to explode. And by their combined energy new particles are formed - by studying these particles we try to create a better understanding of the formation of the universe and the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the present.
Three years ago today, this machine was shut down for major upgrades - in these three years, its magnets have been made more powerful, the number of protons in the beam of protons has increased, this beam has been adjusted accurately. The ability to focus has been improved so that more protons can collide with each other in a very small area, increasing the likelihood of particles that have seldom formed before.
Since the upgrade, the overall performance of this collimator has improved almost 23 times compared to 2012, which will help in the discovery of new particles and new fundamental forces of the universe.
When the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012, there were so few Higgs bosons being produced that it was extremely difficult to study their properties. Dan Higgs will study the mechanism of decay of the boson and will also study the particles that are formed as a result of the decay of the Higgs boson.
In the last few months, there have been signs of a new particle in many particle accelerators. The standard model predicts that the decay rate of electrons and muons should be exactly the same, but in some experiments the decay rate of muons is higher than expected. It's like a hunt for meowns interacting with another elementary particle that we don't know about. Soon after the resumption of the LHC, the issue of Mayon's decay rate will be resolved and it is quite possible that in the next few years a new core particle will be detected which will allow for the modification of the standard model.
