12 September 2007
http://www.interactions.org
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Source: United States Department of Energy
Content: Press Release
Date Issued: 12 September 2007
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*DOE's Office of Science Launches Website for U.S. Role at Large Hadron
Collider*
*--U.S. scientists join international colleagues to explore universe's
mysteries at world's largest scientific experiments--*
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science
today launched a new website to tell the story of the U.S. role in the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator that will begin
operating in Europe, near Geneva, Switzerland, next year. Hundreds of
physicists, engineers and students from the United States are joining
with colleagues from around the globe in the largest and most complex
scientific experiments ever built. The LHC experiments will address
some of the most fundamental mysteries of the universe.
The new website, www.uslhc.us, funded by DOE's Office of Science, aims
to provide one-stop shopping for anyone seeking information about the
U.S. and the LHC. Updated daily, the website features up-to-the-minute
news and information about the LHC, along with high-resolution graphic
images, scientists' blogs, resources for students and educators and
contact information for news media.
"The LHC will become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator
when it is scheduled to turn on in 2008," Dr. Robin Staffin, DOE's
Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics said. "The U.S.
has played key roles in the design and construction of both the LHC
experiments and the accelerator. The new website will tell the story of
U.S participation in this extraordinary scientific adventure as it unfolds."
The LHC is located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear
Research, near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC, 27 kilometers in
circumference, has been more than 15 years in the making. The machine
accelerates protons to almost the speed of light and makes them collide
in the center of four cathedral-sized experiments, creating conditions
that existed billionths of a second after the Big Bang. Scientists will
use the information from these collisions to investigate the nature of
the physical universe.
"Discoveries at the LHC could revolutionize our picture of the
universe," said Dr. Joseph Dehmer, Physics Division Director from the
National Science Foundation, which also provides funding for LHC
experiments. "These experiments may solve the mystery of dark matter
and finally answer the question of what gives mass to the particles
we're made of."
More than 1,300 scientists from over 90 U.S. institutions participate in
the LHC and its experiments. These scientists represent universities
and national laboratories from 30 states and Puerto Rico. DOE
laboratories participating are: Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
The U.S. scientists join more than 4,000 colleagues worldwide in their
hunt to uncover the secrets of the universe. U.S. scientists have
designed and built many parts of the accelerator and experiments, and
are creating advanced software and computing systems to handle mountains
of data that will flow from the experiments when the accelerator turns on.
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