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Physicists test if they can load antimatter on a truck
Physicists in Europe have reported that it’s possible to transport charged particles on a truck for four hours without disturbing them in any way. This seemingly run-of-the-mill announcement, reported in Nature on May 14, actually contains within its details the … Continue reading
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Tagged antimatter, Antimatter Factory, BASE-STEP Penning trap, CERN, CP violation, CPT symmetry, Large Hadron Collider, liquid helium, Penning trap, quantum field theory
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“Who are we?”
From ‘‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider’, The Guardian, March 29, 2025: However, if the FCC were given the go-ahead, it could lock up funds for decades and end … Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, Future Circular Collider, Large Hadron Collider, Nirmalya Kajuri, particle physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, The Guardian
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The awesome limits of superconductors
On June 24, a press release from CERN said that scientists and engineers working on upgrading the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had “built and operated … the most powerful electrical transmission line … to date”. The transmission line consisted of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrikosov vortex lattice, Abrikosov vortices, BCS theory, Bose-Einstein condensate, CERN, Cooper pairs, copper, electrical conductivity, electrical resistivity, electrons, flux-flow resistance, Joule heating, Large Hadron Collider, Lisa Randall, magnesium diboride, magnetic flux, Meissner effect, niobium, Pauli's exclusion principle, Praveen Chaddah, protons, silver, superconductors, superfluid helium, titanium, type I superconductors, type II superconductors, vortex pinning
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My heart of physics
Every July 4, I have occasion to remember two things: the discovery of the Higgs boson, and my first published byline for an article about the discovery of the Higgs boson. I have no trouble believing it’s been eight years … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes, Scicomm
Tagged ATLAS detector, Atomki, axions, CEPC, CERN, CMS detector, hedonism, Higgs boson, Higgs factory, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, Quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, thermodynamics, XENON excess
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A gear-train for particle physics
Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics. Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Allanach, CERN, clockwork theory, diphoton channel, Gian Giudice, grand unification, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Matthew McCullough, Maxwell's equations, naturalness problem, particle physics, Planck scale, Rencontres de Moriond, supersymmetry
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Some notes and updates
Four years of the Higgs boson, live-tweeting and timezones, new music, and quickly reviewing an Erikson book. Continue reading
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Tagged 750 GeV particle, Albert Kuvezin, CERN, Fall of Light, fantasy fiction, Higgs boson, Huun Huur Tu, Large Hadron Collider, live-tweeting, Steven Erikson, throat-singing, timezones, UTC, Yat-kha
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Money for science
Spending money on science has been tied to evaluating the value of spin-offs, assessing the link between technological advancement and GDP, and dissecting the metrics of productivity, but the debate won’t ever settle no matter how convincingly each time it is … Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, GDP, James Webb Space Telescope, productivity, public spending for science, Yuri Milner
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The Large Hadron Collider is back online, ready to shift from the “what” of reality to “why”
The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acronym CERN – have announced the status of the agency’s upgrades on its Large … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator complex, antimatter, CERN, dark matter, extra dimensions, Francois Englert, Higgs boson, high-energy physics, Large Hadron Collider, magnetic quenching, particle accelerators, particle physics, supersymmetry
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Fabiola Gianotti, the first woman Director-General of CERN
The CERN Council has elected a new Director-General to succeed the incumbent Rolf-Dieter Heuer. Fabiola Gianotti, who served as the ATLAS collaboration’s spokesperson from 2009 to 2013 – a period that included the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson by … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS, CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, supersymmetry
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Restarting the LHC: A timeline
CERN has announced the restart schedule of its flagship science “project”, the Large Hadron Collider, that will see the giant machine return online in early 2015. I’d written about the upgrades that could be expected shortly before it shut down in … Continue reading
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Tagged ALICE, antiproton decelerator, ATLAS, CERN, CMS, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, LINAC 2, luminosity, pixel sensors, Proton Synchrotron
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