August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
8h 42m
English
Testing this theory goes back to the original notion of particle jelly ripples and in particular, the Higgs jelly which a) can ripple and b) would resemble a particle in an experiment: the infamous Higgs-Boson. So how do scientists detect this ripple using the LHC?
To monitor the collisions and the resulting post-collisions, scientists set up detectors which act like three-dimensional digital cameras which measure the tracks of particles coming from the collisions. Properties from these tracks - that is, how much they curve in magnetic fields - are used to infer various properties of the particles that generated them; one extremely common property that can be measured is an electric charge where it is believed ...
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