Higgs Music: How does the largest particle collider in the world sound like?

Music Higgs: How the largest particle collider in the world sounds 1 With data obtained between 2011 and 2013 by the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists have made ​​a musical interpretation to reveal how would sound particle interactions that allowed the discovery of the Higgs boson. Physicists and engineers lab recorded a score based on the data "sonificados" to which they intitularon "LHChamber Music '. 

Higgs Music: How does the largest particle collider in the world sound like?

Music Higgs: How the largest particle collider in the world sounds 1 With data obtained between 2011 and 2013 by the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists have made ​​a musical interpretation to reveal how would sound particle interactions that allowed the discovery of the Higgs boson. Physicists and engineers lab recorded a score based on the data "sonificados" to which they intitularon "LHChamber Music '. The physical and composer Domenico Vicinanza was the creator of the symphony which was used to celebrate the 60th anniversary of CERN. Some laboratory scientists who were also musicians played this piece about 12 minutes in the four caves that house the detectors collisions of atoms and the CERN control center. And really, does not sound bad. In July 2012, scientists announced that they had detected particles that seemed to be the sought Higgs boson, whose existence was first proposed by the British physicist Peter Higgs in 1960 Two different experiments of the LHC, called ATLAS and CMS, respectively, detected a new elementary particle weighing about 126 gigaelectrones volts (GeV). In March 2013, after gathering more information, the researchers confirmed that the particle was found, in fact, the Higgs boson. The group of scientists / musicians became Higgs data in music using the largest grid (grid) of computers known as EGI Europe, which runs on the GÉANT network connecting the educational and research community over the old continent . The grid computing technology combines the processing power of many computers to analyze large amounts of information in the fastest way possible. To learn how to "sound" the Higgs boson, the team mapped the data values ​​as numbers -expressed particle collision events per unit of mass-to musical notes. Thus, each number corresponding to a single note and follow the order of numbers of the notes. These scientists / CERN musicians first played this piece of music on a Bösendorfer piano, then piano and marimba, and eventually used piano, marimba, xylophone, flute, bass and percussion.