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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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Prospects for suspected new fundamental particle improve marginally
Although the data’s statistical significance isn’t as good as it would have to be for there to be a new ‘champagne bottle boson’ moment, it’s encouraging that the data itself isn’t vanishing. Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, CMS detector, digamma resonance, diphoton events, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model of particle physics, statistical significance
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Colliders of the future: LHeC and FCC-he
Because powerful accelerators take at least a decade to realise, physicists have started work on two machines to aid physics research of the future. Continue reading
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Tagged Compact Linear Collider, deep inelastic scattering, electroweak theory, Future Circular Collider, Higgs boson, International Linear Collider, LHeC, New Physics, quantum chromodynamics, Sokolov-Ternov effect
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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
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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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A new LHC: 10 things to look out for
Through an extraordinary routine, the most powerful machine built by humankind is slowly but surely gearing up for its relaunch in March 2015. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), straddling the national borders of France and Switzerland, will reawaken after two years … Continue reading
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Tagged B0 mesons, collision energy, dark energy, dark matter, extra dimensions, Higgs boson, instantaneous luminosity, Large Hadron Collider, supersymmetry, weakly interacting massive particles
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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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Why you should care about the mass of the top quark
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters on July 17, 2014, a team of American researchers reported the most precisely measured value yet of the mass of the top quark, the heaviest fundamental particle. Its mass is so high that … Continue reading
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Tagged D0 experiment, Higgs boson, Higgs field, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, Stephen Hawking, top quark, Yukawa coupling
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New Higgs results show signs of SUSY
Two years ago, physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider first announced the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, setting the high-energy physics community atwitter. And it was only a couple weeks ago that physicists also announced that the particle was … Continue reading
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