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US experiments find hint of a break in the laws of physics
At 9 pm India time on April 7, physicists at an American research facility delivered a shot in the arm to efforts to find flaws in a powerful theory that explains how the building blocks of the universe work. Physicists … Continue reading
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Tagged anomalous magnetic dipole moment, dark energy, dark matter, Fermilab Muon g-2, g-2 anomaly, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, muon dipole moment, Muon g-2, neutrino masses, New Physics, particle physics, physics beyond the standard model, Standard Model, Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry
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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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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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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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Tagged ATLAS, CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, supersymmetry
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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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Tagged Higgs boson, high-energy physics, International Conference on High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry, W bosons
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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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The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run
What do dark matter, Higgs bosons, the electron dipole moment, topological superconductors and quantum loops have in common? These are exotic entities that scientists have been using to solve some longstanding problems in fundamental physics. Specifically, by studying these entities, they expect … Continue reading
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Tagged dark matter, electron dipole moment, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, quantum loop, Standard Model, supersymmetry, topological superconductor
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The hunt for supersymmetry: Is a choke on the cards?
As scientists have progressed by leaps and bounds in making discoveries and confirming new ideas, they have been disappointed by how one of their favorite theories has been unable to post a positive status update in… years. Continue reading
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Tagged Advanced Cold Molecule Electron, bosons, dark matter, electron dipole moment, fermions, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, mesons, particle physics, Project X, Standard Model, Steven Weinberg, superspace, supersymmetry
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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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