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Posted on 03/06/2019 12:47:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
nitiated by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, the five-year FASER project is funded by grants of $1 million each from the Heising-Simons Foundation and the Simons Foundation – with additional support from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
ASER's focus is to find light, extremely weakly interacting particles that have so far eluded scientists, even in the high-energy experiments conducted at the CERN-operated LHC, the largest particle accelerator in the world.
Feng, a theoretical physicist, will be joined by CERN collaborators as well as other scientists from research institutions in Europe, China, Japan and the United States. The FASER team will consist of 30 to 40 members, relatively small compared to other groups conducting experiments at the LHC.
The FASER instrument is also compact, measuring about 1 meter in diameter and 5 meters long. It will be placed at a specific point along the 16-mile loop of the LHC, about 480 meters (1,574 feet) away from the hulking, six-story instrument used by the ATLAS Collaboration to discover the Higgs boson.
As proton beams pass through the interaction point at the ATLAS instrument, they may create new particles that will go through concrete in the LHC tunnel and then into the FASER instrument, which will track and measure the progress of their decay. FASER will collect data any time ATLAS is operating.
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As proton beams pass through the interaction point at the ATLAS instrument, they may create new particles that will go through concrete in the LHC tunnel and then into the FASER instrument, which will track and measure the progress of their decay. FASER will collect data any time ATLAS is operating.
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That seems like sifting through somebody’s garbage for clues.
I.e., privately funded, as this appears to be.
Deut. 29:29: The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. New Living Translation. The LORD our God has secrets known to no one.
A couple million dollars doesn’t go very far in the particle accelerator world.
Though God gave us the gift of thought, which leads to either Him, or ultimately, nothing. How else could we know the Moon, the outer planets and even now the beyond but for what He has given us?
It’s part of ourselves. I believe He wants us to ask these questions.
Thanks BenLurkin.
That is true, but FASER is not expensive and its low cost and rapid construction schedule are made possible by re-use of hardware from other experiments.
More information on FASER can be seen of the web page of Jonathan Feng http://www.ps.uci.edu/~jlf/
There’s a LOT to be learned from garbage you know?
Interesting link. I guess I’m not worthy . . .
You are worthy. Please step into this very good presentation: Dan Hooper “The WIMP is dead. Long live the WIMP!”
Nice graphs and no technical background needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YMWHkFW5VA
Interesting articles about the work by Hooper
https://www.google.com/search?num=20&tbm=nws&q=%22Dan+Hooper%22
A couple million dollars doesn’t go very far in the particle accelerator world.
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That was my first thought, reading this.
A million here and a million there and you’re still not going to have enough to buy dinners for all the physicists on the project.
CERN is the leading cause of Global Warming. Every time they turn that dern thing on it kills a billion trees because they have to throw out all the old science books and print new ones.
“A couple million dollars doesn’t go very far in the particle accelerator world.”
A look at the link another poster (or was it you) provided, they got parts from their “scrap pile”, which is probably worth billions.
Not me, but good point. Thanks.
My son(26) tells me "DAD it's like your at Disney World and your trying to get behind doors marked EMPLOYEES ONLY"
He says I should just relax and enjoy the great grandeur of God's Universe.
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Thanks to the FReeper who shall remain nameless for sending this link -- reminds me of the vast body of self-published work of the late Milton Monson, author of "Physics Is Constipated" and other works.
The youngest member of the physics department is normally given the task to answer persons like that, and the best strategy is to write them that you know of one person that is an expert in this field and then forward the letter to another one in the crackpot list.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Of course, the youngest member is always going to be the most energetic and unexperienced, and still scalp deep in the prevailing ideology. Having physicists call anyone else a crackpot? They're drawing on a weak hand. :^)
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