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.
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"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.