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The power of the Sun
It’s only the hypernova that really harnesses the power of the Sun. Continue reading
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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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The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run – 2
I’d linked to a preprint paper [PDF] on arXiv a couple days ago that had summarized the search for Supersymmetry (Susy) from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I’d written to one of the paper’s authors, Pascal Pralavorio … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, CERN, CMS detector, di-jet events, Large Hadron Collider, luminosity, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, probability, Standard Model, supersymmetry
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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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Gunning for the goddamned: ATLAS results explained
Here are some of the photos from the CERN webcast yesterday (July 4, Wednesday), with an adjoining explanation of the data presented in each one and what it signifies. This first image shows the data accumulated post-analysis of the diphoton … Continue reading
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