nLab LHC

Description

An experiment in particle physics measuring the details of the standard model of particle physics. Detected the Higgs boson.

Subexperiments include: LHCb, …

Properties

Resolution about $10^{-20}m \simeq 10$ TeV and currently reached $\simeq 7 TeV$ (e.g. Mazumdar, slide 7)

Related entries

• LIGO, Super-Kamiokande, EDGES, RHIC

• LHCb, Belle experiment

• standard model of particle physics

• Higgs boson

• flavour anomaly

References

• Wikipedia, CERN

• Kajari Mazumdar, Essentials of the LHC (pdf)

• John Ellis, Summary of the Nobel Symposium on LHC Results (arXiv:1309.3549)

The LHCb experiment on B-meson decays (see also at flavour anomaly):

• lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/Summary_all.html

Outlook on results such as flavour anomalies, search for leptoquarks etc.

• Salvatore Rappoccio, The experimental status of direct searches for exotic physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider, Reviews in Physics 4 (2019) 100027 (arXiv:1810.10579)