• Question: what does the Hadron Collider do

    Asked by Cops to Flavia on 17 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by 334expd23.
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      Flavia de Almeida Dias answered on 17 Nov 2015:


      Hello!

      The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world! Pretty cool, huh? 🙂

      A collider is a type of a particle accelerator with two directed beams of particles. In particle physics colliders are used as a research tool: they accelerate particles to very high kinetic energies and let them impact other particles. Analysis of the byproducts of these collisions gives us scientists good evidence of the structure of the subatomic world and the laws of nature governing it. Many of these byproducts are produced only by high energy collisions, and they decay after very short periods of time. Thus many of them are hard or near impossible to study in other ways.

      🙂

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