The Director General CERN announces Australian Centre of 25 M $ on the origins of the universe (eurekalert.org)

 

The Director General of CERN, Switzerland, Dr. Rolf - Dieter Heuer, announced a new Council Research Centre Australian 25 m $ to explore the origins of the universe after the big bang at the Institute of physics Congress this week.

Led by the University of Melbourne, the Centre of excellence for experimental physical particle to the Terascale CRA will examine energy of terabytes (1 million electron volts million) thanks to the experience of the ATLAS, is a giant particle detector attached to the large Hadron at CERN Collider particle physics.

Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer also announced that the President of the international Advisory Committee of the ARC Centre.

Director of the center of the ARC, Professor Geoff Taylor, school of physics at the University of Melbourne, said by probing the higher energies, fundamental particle interactions could be found on the early stages of the evolution of the universe after the big bang.

"Exciting new physics such as the existence of microscopic black holes, extra space dimensions and an extension called SRT super symmetry is motivated by plausible extensions of the standard model of possible particle physics discoveries."

In particular, scientists say that they are not discover the elusive Higgs boson particle explains how particulate matter as their mass and never found.

"Centre increase greatly the Australia role in pure science on planet Earth, the large Hadron Collider, the largest company" said Mr. Taylor.

"Our scientific effort is to leave a legacy of national capacity increased at the forefront of this intellectual endeavour."

Professor Taylor said that Professor Heuer participation in the Centre of the CRA has strengthened the world-class expertise of Australia particle physics.

"We are very excited to make this announcement today begins a new era of Australian scientific research collaboration in the field of particle physics and understand the beginnings of the universe", he said.

The Centre brings together researchers from the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide, Monash University, the University of Sydney and international collaborators, including Cambridge University, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Fribourg, Geneva University, Duke University and INFN Milano.