The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator. The daily work is to accelerate the protons, that is, the hydrogen nuclei. Sometimes it is used to accelerate other nuclei without electrons. The electron nuclei have never been processed before.
The press release issued by the European Nuclear Research Center said that the test was to test the feasibility of the 'gamma ray factory' scenario, and it is possible to generate high-intensity gamma rays using the Large Hadron Collider in the future for physics frontier research. .
Lead atoms have 82 electrons under normal conditions. The researchers stripped the electrons to only one, causing the lead atoms to become positively charged ions. In the test conducted in late July, the Large Hadron Collider made 6 bundles. The lead ions were stable for two hours, and the researchers intentionally discarded the ion beam.
Gamma ray is a kind of high-energy electromagnetic wave with extremely short wavelength. It is envisaged that the large Hadron collider will accelerate the atom to near the speed of light, and then use the laser to excite the electrons to a higher energy state. When the electron falls back to the low energy state, Will release gamma rays.
At present, electron beam generation has been used to generate gamma rays, but the large Hadron collider produces gamma rays with higher intensity, which can be used in new particle physics experiments, which may help to explore dark matter.