Origin of the Mass

弥撒的起源

• 批准号: DP0663299
• 负责人: Prof Elisabetta Barberio
• 金额: $ 19.74万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2006-01-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0663299
• 关键词: Origin; Mass

A hundred metres below ground, under the French-Swiss border, scientists are preparing to travel back in time to study matter as it was in the first fractions of a second after the beginning of the Universe. They are building the world's largest scientific instrument to help reveal how this primordial matter developed into the building blocks that form the great diversity of today. Australian physicists are preparing to extract the few fundamental particles that will explain the origin of the mass from the debris of billions of proton collisions. While solving the major issue confronting particle physics today, we will train students who will subsequently apply their skills in fields as diverse as science, medicine, industry and finance.

在法国-瑞士边境地下100米的地方，科学家们正准备回到过去，研究宇宙开始后瞬间的物质。他们正在建造世界上最大的科学仪器，以帮助揭示这些原始物质是如何发展成为形成今天巨大多样性的基石的。澳大利亚物理学家正准备从数十亿次质子碰撞的碎片中提取出一些基本粒子，以解释质量的起源。在解决当今粒子物理学面临的主要问题的同时，我们将培养学生，他们随后将在科学、医学、工业和金融等不同领域应用他们的技能。