LHC May Locate The Higher Dimensions Next Year
A Collimeter at the LHC The collimation system protects the LHC against damage due to beam loss. Claudia Marcelloni, CERNCheck out our buying guide for the greatest 4-D, 5-D, and even 12-D TVs The Large Hadron Collider took several years to construct, and it was expected that it would take several more to begin yielding game-changing scientific data. But, to the delight of CERN researchers, that hasn't been the case. The LHC is already yielding reams of valuable scientific data, and a bulletin released by lead researchers Monday indicates that the ATLAS experiment is working so well that researchers should be able to confirm or rule out the existence of the Higgs Boson by next year, and could even find evidence of extra dimensions before the end of 2011. The pace of experimentation and accuracy of data coming from ATLAS - one of the LHC's primary experiments - has stunned even the...