INSIDE LOOK: What it's Really Like to Work at CERN. The next big leap in societal Evolution
will no doubt come from The Fast and exciting work coming out of today's stem Fields working to
advance Humanity to the next stage is a great goal for anyone looking to join one of these fields
what would it look like to work at one of the most prestigious scientific bodies on the planet today
we are taking a look inside of the European Organization for nuclear research or CERN
have you ever thought about working for one of the greatest scientific research companies
working to uncover the mysteries of the universe using the most powerful technology available on
Earth is an amazing goal while a career in scientific research can be difficult and
isn't always fun discovering something that will alter the way we view our reality is an exciting
and ambitious goal but what would it really be like to work at one of these places and
what kind of experiments key places like CERN running the European Organization for nuclear
research runs studies across many different areas within physics including the standard
model of particle physics to supersymmetry cosmic rays to Exotic Isotopes and more
CERN has been in operation since the first half of the 1950s and has been at the Forefront of
scientific advancements since its Inception with the help of the most powerful particle
accelerator in the world the LHC Large Hadron Collider they work to unlock the deepest held
secrets of the universe by Smashing particles into each other at velocities near the speed of light
Hadron Collider is set about 100 meters below the surface and runs for nearly 27 kilometers
along its length CERN has built nine different detectors in order to run a number of different
experiments looking into the Collision of particles in these detectors the LHC causes
particles to smash into each other producing a vast number of other particles that these
detectors are built to capture and analyze while each of these detectors have their own unique
set of phenomena to study they are all vital to the continued study of the subatomic world
during one of its early years the LHC was able to make a massive breakthrough in the realm of
particle physics when it first detected the Higgs boson a particle which is now thought
to interact with some fundamental particles contributing to their Mass the Higgs boson was
first predicted in the 1960s by physicists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert until it was detected
within the LHC that particle lived solely in theory which is one of the greatest aspects of
scientific experimentation that ability to confirm what scientists think is true researchers at CERN
are hoping for another discovery that helps confirm more aspects of the current models of
our universe but there is also hope that they will find something more unexpected more of a surprise
foreign just this year the Large Hadron Collider was turned on again and will be continually
running and collecting experimental data for the next four years the director general for CERN
Fabiola Giannotti has revealed that they will be looking for answers to questions related to Dark
Matter to why the Higgs boson is so light and many other open questions there is a growing
group of physicists who are starting to lean towards dark matter being some type of particle
whether that be a weekly interacting massive particle or wimp or another type of neutrino
the only place on Earth for a question like this to be answered experimentally is the LHC
in the world of the standard model every particle has a specific energy level along with a specific
vibration there are particles that can be created using very little input energy but there are other
theoretical particles whose energy requirements far surpass any energy level that we have been
able to achieve on Earth in order to find newer particles more and more energy needs to be pumped
into the accelerator as the particles are being sped up around the tube when the particles have
more energy their collisions will also be far more powerful and produce a variety of particles
that can be at much higher Energies scientists are hoping for a particle to pop out that they
have yet to see now that the Large Hadron Collider has been upgraded with a significant power boost
they increase the power of the accelerator's injectors the device that supplies the highly
accelerated particle beams to the Collider this upgrade will allow protons to be pushed
to energy levels around at six point with Terra electron volts in front of the previous
maximum of 6.5 Tera electron volts to put these energy levels into some perspective
the most powerful bolts of lightning striking Earth max out around 30 million electron volts
if one Terra electron volt is equal to one trillion electron volts the LHC is
being supplied with protons with the power of nearly 23 000 massive bolts of lightning
the standard model is currently one of science's best theories as to how the universe is put
together and how it functions but there are still many aspects of it that are either not fully
understood or missing entirely and not only can the standard model help scientists understand what
dark matter is it can also help shed light on the very process that control all of physical reality
particle physics can be confusing some particles will Decay extremely quickly and
to other particles While others are extremely stable and take a very long time to decay
knowing how particles Decay and what they Decay into helps physicists fit everything together
into the standard model during this run of the LHC there is a team of researchers trying to
look into these aspects of the Higgs boson to try and find insight into the way it decays and
its place in the standard model the Higgs boson has thrown a wedge into physics aiding what is
called the hierarchy problem dealing with the vast difference in the Higgs mass and the mass
of other fundamental particles maybe with these new rounds of experiments researchers
will be able to observe the Higgs in more detail than before and answer these burning questions
within the standard model there are only six types of quarks which are the building blocks
that form many of the particles of matter that we see today also called hadrons but between these
six types of quarks there is an insane number of possible combinations that each form a different
hadron for quite a while physics was only aware of hadrons with three quarks in them called
baryons or mesons but with the Advent of more powerful particle accelerators it was quickly
found that more complex particles can also form like the tetra-quark composed of two quarks and
two anti-quarks or the pentaquark made up of four quarks and one anti-quark all of these discoveries
would not have been possible if not for the construction of large particle accelerators
that can output a huge amount of energy the European Organization for nuclear research has
been at The Cutting Edge of scientific research and inquiry they are responsible for many
incredible groundbreaking discoveries over the organization's existence of nearly seven decades
the power of the technology available seems to only be getting more powerful as the years go on
if this trend keeps up it is only a matter of time before the equipment
at CERN will be able to run experiments looking higher into the energy spectrum
of particles to uncover the Hidden Truths of the universe
will they be able to detect the graviton one day what else will they find in the unknown thanks for
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