Monday, March 10, 2008

Missing Mass

According to the Standard Model, except gravity, forces that govern the matters and particles are summarized in the diagram at below.



The model does not explain where is the mass come from and there are also eighteen numerical parameters that must be put "by hand" into the theory.

We are looking forward to see the results coming from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson may help to explain how elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The project also planned to study various interesting phenomena such as strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles, and supersymmetric particles.