Large Hadron Collider
The discovery of the Higgs boson alone doesn’t prove the Higgs mechanism is doing everything the theory demands. To test that, physicists need to look at situations where the boson's balancing act is crucial.
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Reading a Nature report titled 'Step aside CERN: There’s a cheaper way to break open physics' (January 10, 2018) brought to mind something G. Rajasekaran, former head of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, told me once: that the future – as the Nature report also touts – belongs
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I watched The Cloverfield Paradox last night, the horror film that Paramount pictures had dumped with Netflix and which was then released by Netflix on February 4. It's a dumb production: unlike H.R. Giger's existential, visceral horrors that I so admire, The Cloverfield Paradox is
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One of the more fascinating bits of high-energy physics is the branch of physics called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Don’t let the big name throw you off: it deals with a bunch of elementary particles that have a property called colour charge. And one of these particles creates a mess
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Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics.
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Four years of the Higgs boson, live-tweeting and timezones, new music, and quickly reviewing an Erikson book.
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We've been able to find that the universe is expanding faster than we thought. The LHC has produced the most data on one day. Good news, right?
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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.
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A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.
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Run 2 results from the LHC show that QCD is scale-invariant – in keeping with the Standard Model prediction.
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A discussion of what updates in experimental particle physics are allowing accelerators to get smaller
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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 collider's control room at CERN over the weekend