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Experimental physicists challenge the Standard Model
An international team of experimental physicists COMET 37 institutions representing 12 countries, which also includes Russian scientists, willing to experiment , which should prove incompleteness of the Standard Model. To do this, the scientists update and modify the Japanese particle accelerator J-Park. Start a new work equipment must be in 2016, and begin processing the results is scheduled in 2020.
"In 2012, the Large Hadron Collider was discovered the Higgs boson. However, since other effects beyond the Standard Model has been found, - the head of the experiment COMET, Osaka University Professor Yoshitaka Kuno. - One way to do this is to find a very rare processes, the probability of which reaches 10 -16 sup>. We are looking for the transition of an electron in muon. Never before had he not been fixed. And if we can find it, it will be a great breakthrough in elementary particle physics ».
In the experiment, attended by scientists from Russia, China, Britain, France and other countries. Our country will present specialists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.
"If the LHC experiments are very global, studying many processes, this completely Chamber: it is designed to search only possible collapse - says the Deputy Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Yuri A. Tikhonov. - But its relevance to physics is enormous. If we find the transition of a muon into an electron in the field of the nucleus, it will indicate the presence of some new, completely different physics, which previously was not available to us ».
Coordinator participation BINP in COMET, Section Head, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Dmitri Grigoriev explains that even if the scientists are interested in the process right is not detected, the experiments will not stop. According to the scientist, about once every 10 years, the technology makes another step forward, so in case of failure, the researchers updated equipment and retry.
The experimental results are purely academic interest, and would not have immediate practical applications. But in the long term, as well as all the processes in the development of science, he will have to contribute to the development of new technologies.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/249294/
