Physics
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Director for Research and Scientific Computing at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Sergio Bertolucci, told a press conference the next CERN challenges are the discovery of dark matter and the detailed study of the Higgs Higgs, its latest find.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the laboratory, which summarizes Bertolucci as “20 years old with 40 years of experience”, its scientific director said at a conference some of the greatest challenges of the physics laboratory Particle World, whose scientists François Englert and Peter Higgs received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
The Collider
Physical explained that in 2014 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will double its power to further study the properties of the Higgs boson, on which still exists, of course, a lot of uncertainty.
“We now know that there is a Higgs, but we want to know if there are more bosons” he said.
Discovery Dark Matter is another challenge of CERN, as Bertolucci, who noted that the finding of supersymmetry, a theory of particle physics beyond the current Standard Model and could explain the presence of dark matter in the universe “would be more important than finding the Higgs discovery.”
Among the most immediate projects, Sergio Bertolucci said CERN collaborated with the University Hospital of Marseille, in France, a new device for early detection breast that may be available for widespread use cancer next year.
This device combines ultrasound with high-speed ultrasound and PET scanner.
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