At present, physicists therefore continue to accumulate collisions to store statistics, in order to make sure that it is indeed the famous Higgs boson and to try to understand its nature. And the stakes are high because "the fact that matter can organize itself is directly linked to the existence of this new particle", as explained by Yves Sirois, CMS manager for France quoted by AFP . "But once you understand that, there are a lot of things that open up, because the boson itself poses a serious theoretical problem", continued the physicist.
"Probably, it is a door to a new physics", he was still enthusiastic, citing the example of supersymmetry (kind of mirror universe of super-particles). "It is quite likely that by increasing energy at the LHC, in a few years, we will be able to discover dark matter". Indeed, the four "experiments" of the LHC are used by some 10.000 scientists around the world on themes as varied as "the origin of the symmetry between matter and anti-matter in the universe, or even the soup of quarks and gluons, that is to say the state of matter from a few micro-seconds until a few seconds after the birth of the Universe ... "
This "only opens up a fascinating field of research", emphasizes Bernard Ille, one of the CERN researchers and research director at the CNRS. Also, the LHC, "that represents approximately 150 institutes and universities across the world", that is to say some 2.500 doctoral theses in progress. Moreover, Maxisciences recently had the opportunity to speak with one of them, Ivo Naranjo, PhD student at CMS.
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