Heavy Z's and Black Holes

Publication date: Thu, Mar 06, 2008 - 11:56am
Mar. 6, 2008
Research by UMass Profs. Stephane Willocq and Carlo Dallapiccola is featured in this week's "In the Loop" newsletter. The experiment they work on, the Atlas Experiment at CERN, is expected to answer a number of fundamental questions about the nature of matter, in particular how particles acquire mass. Atlas, set to begin data taking this year, is located at the 27-kilometer LHC storage ring in Geneva where billions of protons will travel close to the speed of light and generate one billion collisions per second. Prof. Willocq proposes to use the Atlas data to search for evidence of heavy Z bosons, while Prof. Dallapiccola hopes to search for evidence of microscopic black holes.
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