TOMSK, Aug 15 – RIA Tomsk. Scientists of Tomsk State University (TSU) thanks to detectors developed by them included into the group of ATLAS experiment, looking for superheavy elementary particles, such as Higgs boson, in the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN), the head of functional electronics laboratory TSU Oleg Tolbanov reported RIA Tomsk.
"We are members of the ATLAS project which is carried out on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We have put detectors there, detectors are installed to the canal. Also there are first results, everything goes according to the plan", – Tolbanov told.
He explained that radiation resistant detectors TSU are installed for tests in 2016. Tomsk devices can serve 10 years (used earlier detectors stand up to about one year) because they are made not of traditional silicon, but out of arsenide of gallium and manufactured by special technology.
"Within the experiment of ATLAS face two proton beams with an energy of eight tera electron Volts. And at collision of two bunches secondary particles are studied, so was proved the Higgs boson existence. On low-angle deviations from the point of collision of two bunches there is very high radiation background. Detectors are used in the channel for measurement of the radiation background", – the interlocutor of agency explained.The scientist specified that Tomsk devices in the future, perhaps, will detect all secondary particles which reach them. Information from sensors will be fixed by the secondary equipment, and with its help scientists of CERN will conduct the researches – including the studying of the Higgs boson.
Tolbanov added that the exact number of detectors which TSU will put for ATLAS will be known only after the solution of other questions concerning the upgrading of the LHC. Earlier he reported that about eight thousand Tomsk detectors can be necessary for the modernized collider.
CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) – is the largest international scientific organization of Europe in the field of nuclear physics. It is located in Switzerland. It was here that made a large number of large discoveries, in particular, the Higgs boson is discovered. It operates the Large Hadron Collider.