TOMSK, Jun
7 – RIA Tomsk. Group of scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)
analyze existing and develop new diamond detectors for the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) located at CERN; detectors of Tomsk polytechnicians fix
collisions of elementary particles accelerating to speeds close to the speed of
light, the press service of the university reports on Wednesday.
Earlier it
was reported that TPU scientists became official members of the European
Organization for Nuclear Research as participants of the experiments related to
the development of microstructural gas detectors, searching for a dark boson -
a hypothetical mediating particle which could be a potential candidate for a
role of dark matter, which is up to 23% of the mass of the universe, and also
with the development of the data storage system.
"Within
the framework of the BRIL project (the project of CERN on measuring the
characteristics of an elementary particle beam – Ed.), polytechnicians are
working to improve the reliability of the existing BCML system of diamond sensors (Beam Condition
Monitor Leakage), which is responsible for safety at the LHC, and also test
their own detectors from synthetic diamonds , grown by scientists of the
Institute of High Technology Physics", – is said in the report.
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According
to the head of the laboratory for the development of sources of electromagnetic
radiation "RASA Center" based on TPU Pavel Karataev, who is quoted by
the press service, in the near future CERN scientists plan to increase ten
times the intensity of the proton beam at the LHC.
"If we
make it now, sensors (detectors) that are not prepared for such loads, fixing
collisions of particles and responsible for measuring of luminosity of the beam
in close proximity to it, will simply cease to fulfill their function", -
the scientist says.
In order to
avoid this, polytechnicians the next two months will conduct a measurement of
CERN detectors, as well as develop new detectors based on synthetic diamonds
and fabricate them in TPU. "They will be differ... in more predictable
quality, wear resistance, and most importantly, their performance parameters
will be predictable", – the engineer of the Institute of High Technology
Physics Vitaly Okhotnikov is quoted.