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Is the LHC a failure?
Ten years in, the Large Hadron Collider has failed to deliver the exciting discoveries that scientists promised. Dr. The L.H.C. has collected data since September 2008. Last month, the second experimental run completed, and the collider will be shut down for the next two years for scheduled upgrades.
Is theoretical particle physics dead?
Theoretical particle physics is definitely a dead subject. Other areas of theoretical physics have made great strides in applications but at the same time there hasn’t been any fundamentally new development in our understanding of physics for decades.
What has the LHC done for us?
The hadron collider has now discovered 59 new hadrons. These include the tetraquarks most recently discovered, but also new mesons and baryons. All these new particles contain heavy quarks such as “charm” and “bottom”.
Is the LHC still operating?
At present, the LHC is already in its cooldown phase and the first of the accelerator’s eight sectors reached its nominal temperature (1.9 K or -271.3 °C) on 15 November. The whole machine should be “cold” by spring 2021. The HL-LHC will generate 10 times as many collisions as its predecessor!
What happened to LHC?
The LHC was shut down on 13 February 2013 for its 2-year upgrade called Long Shutdown 1 (LS1), which was to touch on many aspects of the LHC: enabling collisions at 14 TeV, enhancing its detectors and pre-accelerators (the Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron), as well as replacing its ventilation system and …
Do supersymmetric particles exist?
Supersymmetry more than doubles the number of particles in the Standard Model. The particles we currently know to exist can be divided into two categories: fermions and bosons. In supersymmetric theories, each particle has an as-yet undiscovered “superpartner” with many similar properties.
What is a supersymmetric theory?
Supersymmetry is an extension of the Standard Model that aims to fill some of the gaps. It predicts a partner particle for each particle in the Standard Model. Theorists have come up with a mechanism to give particles masses that requires the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson.
What did the LHC discovered?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is also a big hadron discoverer. The atom smasher near Geneva, Switzerland, is most famous for demonstrating the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012, a discovery that slotted into place the final keystone of the current classification of elementary particles.