Tag Archives: CMS
A blogging problem, contd.
Over the last three days, I’d been having a strange issue with WordPress. If you read a post I published yesterday that briefly discussed WordPress’s pros and cons, you might remember I mentioned that WordPress 4.x seems to be having … Continue reading
New LHC data has more of the same but could something be in the offing?
Run 2 results from the LHC show that QCD is scale-invariant – in keeping with the Standard Model prediction. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ATLAS, CMS, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, scale invariance, statistical significance
Comments Off on New LHC data has more of the same but could something be in the offing?
All goes well on LHC 2.0’s first day back in action
It finally happened! The particle-smasher known as the Large Hadron Collider is back online after more than two years, during which its various components were upgraded to make it even meaner. A team of scientists and engineers gathered at the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, particle physics, Restart LHC, Super Proton Synchrotron
Comments Off on All goes well on LHC 2.0’s first day back in action
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ALICE, antiproton decelerator, ATLAS, CERN, CMS, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, LINAC 2, luminosity, pixel sensors, Proton Synchrotron
Comments Off on Restarting the LHC: A timeline
Another window on ‘new physics’ closes
The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that has been pieced together over the last 40 years after careful experiments. It accurately predicts the behaviour of various subatomic particles across a range of situations. Even so, it’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged B_s meson, CMS, LHCb, particle decay, particle physics, Standard Model, subatomic particles
Comments Off on Another window on ‘new physics’ closes