" This is physics in action, the beginning of a new era, with collisions of 7 TeV (tera), "said Paola Catapano, scientific spokesman for the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, to take part in the experiment.
"It's a fantastic moment for the science," said the director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer, in a videoconference from Japan, barely containing his excitement.
The cheers burst into the control room when the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) marked the clash of some billions of subatomic particles at unprecedented speed, in a third attempt was successful.
"We are a billionth of a second after the Big Bang", AFP said CERN spokesman James Gillies.
"It's really an emotional moment," said Steve Myers, head of CERN accelerators and technology.
"We saw real fireworks, very different from what we had seen before," said Fabiola Gianotti by his side, spokesman for the Atlas detector.
"Soon we will be able to answer some of the great enigmas of modern physics as the source of the mass, the grand unification of forces and the abundant presence of dark matter in the universe," said Guido Tonelli, spokesman for the particle detector CMS massive and ephemeral, which uses a different technology of Atlas.
"We may be on the threshold of a new world view", as it did a century ago with the theory of relativity of Albert Einstein, for his part said Jurgen Schukraft, which investigates the first moments of universe 13,700 million years ago.
"With sure we will be repeating the feat several times in the next week and during the year, "said Myers, who compared the experiment with the launch of two needles from different sides of the Atlantic, hoping they hit.
The new stage, called "Physics First" is the beginning of a series of similar clashes million over a period of 18 to 24 months.
The LHC, located in a tunnel 27 miles long installed on the border between France and Switzerland, were arrested just days after his inauguration in 2008 and spent 14 months in repairs.
However, after its relaunch in November 2009 the collider - which cost about 3,900 million euros (5,250 million dollars) - made several unprecedented feats.
A month later had reached a power never seen acceleration of proton beams of 2.36 TeV, allowing the shock of more than a million particles. Now, after reaching 7 TeV, beat three and a half times the maximum power of his rival, at Fermilab in Chicago (USA).
Scientists around the world and analyze the data processed into a giant computer network, looking for evidence of a missing link in the theory known as the Higgs boson, commonly called the "God particle."
"In this kind of physics, what is important to observe new phenomena is gathering statistics," said the scientist Despiona Hatzifotiadu. "We give you an idea of \u200b\u200bhow we were created in the beginning."
The experiment could also clarify the "dark matter and dark energy, invisible material that could explain 96% of the cosmos.
Still, the current LHC works without realizing their full potential because it's designed to produce collisions at a rate of 14 TeV, or 99.99% of the speed of light, which could reach 2012.
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