One of the earliest CMS events found showing evidence of two jets. The blue and red columns represent energy deposited in the detector, while the yellow curved lines are measured tracks of particles.
Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider. Imperial physicists celebrate the latest results from the CMS particle detector at CERN, which are better and faster than expected - News Wednesday 26 January 2011 Physicists are closer than ever to finding the source of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, following a better than expected year of research at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector , part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC ) at CERN in Geneva. The scientists have now carried out the first full run of experiments that smash protons together at almost the speed of light. When these sub-atomic particles collide at the heart of the CMS detector, the resultant energies and densities are similar to those that were present in the first instants of the Universe, immediately after the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago. The unique conditions created by these collisions can lead to the production of new particles that would have existed in those early instants and have since disappeared. The researchers say they are well on their way to being able to either confirm or rule out one of the primary theories that could solve many of the outstanding questions of particle physics, known as Supersymmetry (SUSY). Many hope it could be a valid extension for the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the interactions of known subatomic particles with astonishing precision but fails to incorporate general relativity, dark matter and dark energy.
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