Question: Consider the following statements:
1) Recently, CERN has approved for the experiment designed to look for light and weakly interacting particles
2) The experiment will look for particles associated with dark-matter
3) CERN laboratory is situated along the border of France and Switzerland
On the basis of the above given facts which of the given alternatives are correct:
(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Only 3
(d) All of the above
Answer 🙁 d)
Related facts:
- On 5th March 2019, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN announced that it has approved the experiment designed to look for light and weakly interacting particles at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC).
- LHC is a giant lab in a 27 km long tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border.
- With this experiment, CERN is planning to look for particles associated with the mysterious dark matter.
- Dark matter constitutes about 27 percent of the universe.
- According to CERN Laboratory, Forward Search Experiment (FASER) will complement ongoing physics programme, extending its discovery potential to several new particles.
- Some of these sought-after particles are associated with dark-matter.
- Dark matter is a hypothesized kind of matter which does not interact with electro-magnetic force and cannot be detected using emitted light.
- India is an associate member in the LHC project.
Links:
http://www.newsonair.com/News?title=CERN-planning-new-experiment-to-look-for-particles-associated-with-mysterious-dark-matter-of-universe&id=360645
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/new-cern-lab-to-help-search-for-dark-matter/article26445128.ece