{"id":179460,"date":"2023-12-29T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/physicists-upgrade-worlds-biggest-atom-smasher-to-probe-dark-photons"},"modified":"2023-12-29T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:27:20","slug":"physicists-upgrade-worlds-biggest-atom-smasher-to-probe-dark-photons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/physicists-upgrade-worlds-biggest-atom-smasher-to-probe-dark-photons","title":{"rendered":"Physicists upgrade world\u2019s biggest atom smasher to probe dark photons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-upgrade-worlds-biggest-atom-smasher-to-probe-dark-photons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) ongoing Run 3 experiment has presented its initial findings about the elusive dark photons.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland, is the world\u2019s most powerful and biggest particle accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>It is made up of a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets and accelerating structures that accelerate protons and other heavy particles to near-light speeds. The LHC is meant to smash these particles, allowing scientists to investigate the fundamental features of matter as well as the forces that govern the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The LHC\u2019s Run 3 experiment began in July of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) ongoing Run 3 experiment has presented its initial findings about the elusive dark photons. The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland, is the world\u2019s most powerful and biggest particle accelerator. It is made up of a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}