2,500 researchers, 1 supermachine, 1 new snapshot of the universe

Supermachine’s Big Bang

The LHC will recreate conditions akin to the Big Bang – which many scientists believe gave birth to the universe – by colliding two beams of particles at close to the speed of light. Since it is estimated that only 4 percent of the universe has been charted, the supermachine will help answer the following questions in physics when it is turned on in summer 2008:

• What is the unknown 96 percent of the universe made of"

• Why do particles have mass"

• Why does nature prefer matter over antimatter"

• What lies beyond Earth’s dimension"
  
  

More on Claude Leroy:

Claude Leroy is a physics professor and head of Université de Montréal‘s Particle Physics Laboratory. He specializes in instrumentation and experimental particle physics, particularly rare decays of muons (heavy electrons) and pions, neutron physics, hadron collisions and applications of semiconductors in particle physics experiments. He collaborates with the Canada-based TRIUMF Laboratory and the physics of high energy collisions at the Swiss-based CERN Laboratory. Leroy is member of the board of the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical University in Prague and Vancouver-based TRIUMF Laboratory. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CERN Scientific Associate and Honorary Professor of the National University of Peru. He is fluent in several languages and is passionate about Chinese culture and history.

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About ATLAS: http://www.atlas-canada.ca
About TRIUMF Laboratory: http://www.triumf.info/
About CERN: http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

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Université de Montréal
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