Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) will soon start processing data from the powerful particle accelerator that came back online in Switzerland last week.
According to excerpts from the article:
MSU researchers will have a front-row seat as particles of cosmic makeup smash together in . . . the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the
Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, near Geneva, Switzerland.
More than a year after a malfunction between two gigantic magnets crippled the LHC, located at the
European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, the accelerator roared back to life a week ago.
MSU’s main role at CERN concerns
ATLAS, a 7,700-ton detector, which will collect a large amount of data to be sorted through and transmitted to various universities and institutions across the globe.
MSU physics professor Bernard Pope said although it will be about a year before the LHC produces noteworthy results, the current, small steps are setting the collider up for new discoveries.
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