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On the shoulders of the Higgs
On July 4, 2012, when CERN announced that a particle that looked a lot like the Higgs boson had been spotted, the excitement was palpable. A multibillion-dollar search for an immensely tiny particle had paid off, and results were starting … Continue reading
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Tagged fermiophobic Higgs, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, SUSY
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Higgs boson closer than ever
The article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on March 7, 2013. — Ever since CERN announced that it had spotted a Higgs boson-like particle on July 4, 2012, their flagship Large Hadron Collider (LHC), apart from similar … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, CERN, Compact Muon Solenoid, diphoton decay, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider
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LHC to re-awaken in 2015 with doubled energy, luminosity
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 10, 2012. — After a successful three-year run that saw the discovery of a Higgs-boson-like particle in early 2012, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, … Continue reading
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Dr. Stone on the Higgs search
On December 10, 2012, I spoke to a bunch of physicists attending the Frontiers of High-energy Physics symposium at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. They included Rahul Sinha, G. Rajasekaran, Tom Kibble, Sheldon Stone, Marina Artuso, M.V.N. Murthy, Kajari … Continue reading
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Window for an advanced theory of particles closes further
A version of this article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on November 22, 2012. — On November 12, at the first day of the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium at Kyoto, Japan, researchers presented a handful of results … Continue reading
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Tagged B meson decay modes, dimuon decay, Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, particle physics, Standard Model, supersymmetry
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The Symmetry Incarnations – Part I
Symmetry in nature is a sign of unperturbedness. It means nothing has interfered with a natural process, and that its effects at each step are simply scaled-up or scaled-down versions of each other. For this reason, symmetry is aesthetically pleasing, … Continue reading
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Tagged anastomosis, asymptote, Banach-Tarski paradox, Big Bang Theory, cellular automata, degrees of freedom, electro-weak symmetry breaking, fractals, Gilbreath's conjecture, hypercube, Large Hadron Collider, Mandelbrot sets, Mulliken symbols, Nambu-Goldstone bosons, prime numbers, surface tension, symmetry, thermodynamics, V.S. Ramachandran
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When must science give way to religion?
When I saw an article titled ‘Sometimes science must give way to religion‘ in Nature on August 22, 2012, by Daniel Sarewitz, I had to read it. I am agnostic, and I try as much as I can to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor, apathy, argument, biology, Daniel Sarewitz, Higgs boson, human mind, Large Hadron Collider, logic, Tevatron
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Getting started on superconductivity
After the hoopla surrounding and attention on particle physics subsided, I realized that I’d been riding a speeding wagon all the time. All I’d done is used the lead-up to (the search for the Higgs boson) and the climax itself … Continue reading
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Tagged condensed matter physics, Cooper pairs, Electromagnetism, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Large Hadron Collider, Leon Cooper, Lorentz force, superconductivity
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Ramblings on partons
When matter and anti-matter meet, they annihilate each other in a “flash” of energy. Usually, this release of energy is in the form of high-energy photons, or gamma rays, which are then detected, analysed, and interpreted to understand more of … Continue reading
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Putting particle physics research to work
In the whole gamut of comments regarding the Higgs boson, there is a depressingly large number decrying the efforts of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Why? Because a lot of people think the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a yawning … Continue reading
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Tagged applied physics, ATLAS, CERN, Large Hadron Collider, materials sciences, medical imaging, spectroscopy
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