Now, the LHC operators are ready to announce \u201cstable beams\u201d, the condition allowing the experiments to switch on all their subsystems and begin taking the data that will be used for physics analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The LHC will run around the clock for close to four years at a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts (TeV), providing greater precision and discovery potential than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe will be focusing the proton beams at the interaction points to less than 10-micron beam size, to increase the collision rate. Compared to Run 1, in which the Higgs was discovered with 12 inverse femtobarns, now in Run 3, we will be delivering 280 inverse femtobarns. This is a significant increase, paving the way for new discoveries,\u201d says Director for Accelerators and Technology Mike Lamont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The four big LHC experiments have performed major upgrades to their data readout and selection systems, with new detector systems and computing infrastructure. The changes will allow them to collect significantly larger data samples, with data of higher quality than in previous runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\u00a0ATLAS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0CMS<\/a>\u00a0detectors expect to record\u00a0more collisions during Run 3 than in the two previous runs combined. The\u00a0<\/a>LHCb<\/a>\u00a0experiment underwent a complete revamp and looks to increase its data-taking rate by a factor of ten, while\u00a0<\/a>ALICE<\/a>\u00a0is aiming at a staggering fifty-fold increase in the number of recorded collisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the increased data samples and higher collision energy, Run 3 will further expand the already very diverse LHC physics program. Scientists at the experiments will probe the nature of the Higgs boson with unprecedented precision and in new channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They may observe previously inaccessible processes and will be able to improve the measurement precision of numerous known processes addressing fundamental questions, such as the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientists will study the properties of matter under extreme temperature and density, and will also be searching for candidates for dark matter and for other new phenomena, either through direct searches or \u2013 indirectly \u2013 through precise measurements of the properties of known particles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to measurements of the Higgs boson decay to second-generation particles such as muons. This would be an entirely new result in the Higgs boson saga, confirming for the first time that second-generation particles also get mass through the Higgs mechanism,\u201d says CERN theorist Michelangelo Mangano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe will measure the strengths of the Higgs boson interactions with matter and force particles to unprecedented precision, and we will further our searches for Higgs boson decays to dark matter particles as well as searches for additional Higgs bosons,\u201d says Andreas Hoecker, spokesperson of the ATLAS collaboration. \u201cIt is not at all clear whether the Higgs mechanism realized in nature is the minimal one featuring only a single Higgs particle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A closely watched topic will be the studies of a class of rare processes in which an unexpected difference (lepton flavor asymmetry) between electrons and their cousin particles, muons, was studied by the LHCb experiment in the data from previous LHC runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cData acquired during Run 3 with our brand new detector will allow us to improve the precision by a factor of two and to confirm or exclude possible deviations from lepton flavor universality,\u201d says Chris Parkes, spokesperson of the LHCb collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Theories explaining the anomalies observed by LHCb typically also predict new effects in different processes. These will be the target of specific studies performed by ATLAS and CMS. \u201cThis complementary approach is essential; if we\u2019re able to confirm new effects in this way it will be a major discovery in particle physics,\u201d says Luca Malgeri, spokesperson of the CMS collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The heavy-ion collision program will allow the investigation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) \u2013 a state of matter that existed in the first 10 microseconds after the Big Bang \u2013 with unprecedented accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe expect to be moving from a phase where we observed many interesting properties of the quark-gluon plasma to a phase in which we precisely quantify those properties and connect them to the dynamics of its constituents,\u201d\u00a0says Luciano Musa, spokesperson of the ALICE\u00a0collaboration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the main lead\u2013lead runs, a short period with oxygen collisions will be\u00a0included for the first time, with the goal of exploring the emergence of QGP-like effects in small colliding systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The smallest experiments at the LHC \u2013\u00a0<\/a>TOTEM<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>LHCf<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>MoEDAL<\/a>, with its entirely new subdetector MAPP, and the recently installed\u00a0<\/a>FASER<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/a>SND@LHC<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 are also poised to explore phenomena within and beyond the Standard Model, from magnetic monopoles to neutrinos and cosmic rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After three years of upgrade and maintenance work, the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts for experiments, and a new period of data taking begins on Tuesday, 5 July 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