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Indian scientists part of LHC studies
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 18:30 IST
New Delhi: Indian scientists are testing magnets for carrying out experiments to understand the creation of the universe in the world's most powerful particle accelerator that will be commissioned in November in Switzerland.
The 27-km underground tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will smash protons at very high speeds to recreate the conditions encountered in the first few billionths of a second of the creation of the universe reported the PTI.
"Indian scientists are testing magnets for one of the four detectors being built for the LHC," pointed out Robert Aymar, Director General of the European Organization For Nuclear Research (CERN).
A huge layered particle detector, which is built using cutting-edge technology, involving both hardware and software, will be used to track and identify the particles produced in collisions. Computer simulations based on information from all the layers reconstruct the particle track and identify its momentum, energy, and speed.
By December last year, nearly 80 percent of the LHC's magnets, the main components of the machine, were installed underground in a facility built close to the Swiss-France border near Geneva.