For decades, scientists have been inventing and inventing devices for a better study of various physical, natural, and cosmic phenomena. For this purpose, the Large Hadron Collider was also created - a rather successful and absolutely unique project.

In essence, the LHC is an accelerator of charged particles on a kind of colliding beams, and accelerates lead ions and protons in order to study the results of their collisions.

Creation of the Large Hadron Collider

The development and creation of the Large Hadron Collider took a long time. As a result, 4 experimental installations were built to conduct scientific observations of the interaction of certain charged particles in ultrahigh matters. The cost of each installation is more than half a billion dollars, and more than two thousand people from 35 institutes are involved in the work of only the two largest installations.

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Considering that only 4% of the particles that make up the Universe known to science exist, it is extremely important for mankind to study the remaining 96% of the components that form various objects. And for most of the existing questions, according to scientists, the answers will help find research at the Large Hadron Collider.

LHC in action - from creation to the present day

In August 2008, the first preliminary tests of the Large Hadron Collider were carried out, during which a beam of charged particles traveled three kilometers along one of its rings. And already in September of the same year, the collider was officially launched. Then a small accident occurred, which stopped the collider for repairs for almost a year, and on November 20, 2009, the first tests of the project after the repair work were carried out.

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All subsequent years, studies of various directions and levels were continuously conducted, during which the LHC was transferred to different modes. These tests have allowed scientists to use numerous results to advance science in a wide variety of industries.

In 2013, another series of proton-ion collisions were carried out, and in the summer the operation of the LHC was officially suspended for scheduled technical work. Repairs and modernization are planned to be carried out by the end of 2014, while significantly increasing the capacity and efficiency of the unique collider.

Risk versus looking deeper

The results reached by specialists with the help of the Large Hadron Collider cannot but rejoice both scientists and the world community. Among the most important results are:

• Discovery of the Higgs Boson and calculation of its mass;
• Evidence of the absence of asymmetry of antiprotons and protons;
• Study of the basic statistical properties of proton collisions;
• Obtaining new, predicted and first discovered particles;
• Investigation of the events of the birth of hadronic jets;
• Obtaining signs of the appearance of quark-gluon plasma in nuclear collisions;
• Detection of non-standard correlations of protons that fly out in opposite directions from each other.

The Large Hadron Collider is a well-known and popular all over the world scientific project, which, moreover, is often played up and described in various fiction books, films, animation. However, for all its popularity and the scientific benefits it brings, there are many opinions that a grandiose installation cannot be considered absolutely safe.

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For many years now, media representatives and public figures have been discussing potential disasters that may occur as a result of the failure of the LHC. Some experts predict a variety of outcomes for any of the experiments carried out in the project - from the emergence of black holes destructive for our planet to the possibility of a thermonuclear explosion.

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But a specially created CERN working group provides qualitative justifications that all arguments about the collider's danger cannot be considered real and convincing. And although disputes are ongoing today, experiments at the LHC will continue until any threats from this kind of research are officially proven and presented to the world community.

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