Matveev: Russian scientists are making a key contribution to the modernization of the LHC – RIA Novosti

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GENEVA, June 3 – RIA Novosti. The Russian scientists are making a key contribution to the modernization of the Large Hadron Collider, which is an important stage of the work will begin after the launch of the new detector in 2023, he told RIA Novosti director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Matveev.

CERN on Wednesday morning began the first experiments on the collision of beams of particles in the reconstructed and fortified the Large Hadron Collider. LHC suspended its work in 2013 for scheduled maintenance after three years of intensive work. In the next two years, hundreds of engineers, scientists and technicians updated equipment complex machine, reinforced particle accelerator LHC and prepared to work with the new facilities. Renovated Collider could spend a collision with a new power, which exceeds the previous maximum of 8 TeV achieved in 2012. In this planned capacity is 14 TeV LHC.

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“First, we have already made and will continue to contribute to the improvement of the detector. The formulation of new problems, for example, an increase in a power booster. It requires new detectors that are able to see the particles in a broader spectrum, including those to see the particles that have not yet seen. That is, the need to achieve a new sensitivity. It is clear that the phenomenon of the birth of particles are not easy to get. But there will be many conventional processes clear. And against this background it is necessary to see what is unusual. Therefore, need greater intensity of the colliding particles. And you need to have detectors that will not be blinded by this huge number of events and their background will be able to see something unusual. Need and the traditional resistance, the persistence of these emerging fields. And this, of course, also a technological challenge, “- said Matveyev.

He said that with CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), where LHC work as scientists from Dubna,” Russia has long had a strong relationship, and make a great contribution, and now very large contribution is made in his program “.

” Russia, Dubna Institute of Technology and the International Institute have already made a key contribution to the modernization of many elements of the LHC detectors. And now we are working on a project of the future of the detector. Because it is already decided that in 2023 will earn a new detector that can take a huge flow of colliding protons. And for that we need new principles of testing equipment. And here Russia, Russian scientists offer some unique opportunities. And we have high hopes. Because we can for less money to do more, “- said Matveyev.

According to CERN,” attach great importance to the contribution that Russian physicists contributed to the modernization program of the detector and are working to be ready to bring new ideas for the new detector, which will be quite a giant step in the new program “.

The experiments at the LHC are aimed at the disclosure of the secrets of how the universe was created. Before the upgrade the LHC was used to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, also known as the “God particle”.

Large Hadron Collider built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the participation of physicists from many countries, including Russia. It is located on the border of Switzerland and France. His 27- kilometer ring will collide beams of protons accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

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