God particle signal is simulated as sign! BBC reports that the scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.

At the “LHC sound” web page http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/ we can be informed about a creative project of sonification LHC data from CERN, done by a group of particle physicists, composers, software developers and artists. The project started in earnest in January 2010 thanks to funding from the science & technology facilities council in the form of a small award for public outreach. You can find out more about them here. The aim of the project is threefold:

To attract people to the results of the LHC experiments in a way that is novel, exciting and accessible.

To establish mutually beneficial communication between the usually disparate fields of music and science and provide composers with access to LHC data.

To introduce particle physicists to the possibility of using sonification as an analysis technique and to begin to establish the methods available for doing this.

Listen to some sounds at:

http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/sounds/HiggsJetEnergyGate.mp3

http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/sounds/HiggsJetSimple.mp3

http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_library/SoundsLibrary.html

http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_higgs/MoreHiggs.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdaF4WuD_Js

Source:

BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10385675.stm

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