MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - The...
Sergei Karpov and colleagues proposed using ATLAS - one of the collider"s detectors - for studying mysterious muonic bursts registered by the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope in the Caucasus in 1981-2006.
"The nature of these muon bursts and their relation to solar cosmic rays have so far remained not quite clear. The ATLAS detector possesses an excellent muon system that allows searches for similar muon bursts," the scientists said in an article published in the Physics of Atomic Nuclei magazine.
The ATLAS detector is one of the LHC"s main detectors and is capable of tracking any processes emerging as a result of elementary particle collisions in the collider.
The collider, located 100 meters under the French-Swiss border with a circumference of 27 km, enables scientists to shoot sub-atomic particles round an accelerator ring at almost the speed of light, channeled by powerful fields produced by superconducting magnets.