“It’s a great day to be a particle physicist,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “A lot of people have waited a long time for this moment, but their patience and dedication is starting to pay dividends.”
“With these record-shattering collision energies, the LHC experiments are propelled into a vast region to explore, and the hunt begins for dark matter, new forces, new dimensions and the Higgs boson,” said ATLAS collaboration spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti. “The fact that the experiments have published papers already on the basis of last year’s data bodes very well for this first physics run.”
As the Large Hadron Collider continues to interest us, we’d be remiss for not reporting on it’s epic state of finally working yesterday.
But we fear poor bread-bombing Jacques must forever live in failure.
Large Hadron Collider: glossary of terms
Hadron – A particle with mass, made up of smaller units called quarks that are bound together. Protons and electrons are types of hadron.Collider – An accelerator in which two beams travelling in opposite directions are steered together to induce high-energy collisions between particles in one beam and those in the other.
Higgs bosun – A theoretical particle, also known as the ‘God particle’, which is thought to give matter its mass ie makes it solid. First proposed by Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh in 1964. The LHC should confirm whether it exists.
Dark Matter – Invisible matter that scientists believe makes up some 25 per cent of the universe. The LHC hopes to establish what it is made of.
Check out the complete glossary on Telegraph.co.uk.
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