Argonne and CERN Explore Long-Held Mystery in Nuclear Physics
Weighing In on the Origin of Heavy Elements A long-held mystery in the field of nuclear physics is why the universe is composed of the…
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Sometimes LEGO Is a Toy – At CERN, LEGO Helps Study the Building Blocks of the Universe
An improvised device, assembled using toy bricks, helped scientists conduct tests at CERN’s NA61/SHINE. CERN’s accelerator complex helps scientists probe the fundamental building blocks of…
Intriguing Results at CERN Shows Tension With Standard Model of Particle Physics
New LHCb analysis still sees previous intriguing result: The new analysis continues to find tension with the Standard Model, but more data are needed to…
CERN’s MoEDAL Hunts for Dyons – Theoretical Particles First Hypothesized in 1969
The MoEDAL collaboration at CERN reports the first search at a particle accelerator for particles with both electric and magnetic charge. A magnetic monopole is…
Intriguing New Result From the Large Hadron Collider May Signal a Crack in the Standard Model
For the first time, LHCb uses beauty baryons to test this key principle of the Standard Model. The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) collaboration…
Fifth Force of Nature: The Plot Thickens for a Hypothetical “X17” Particle
Additional evidence of an unknown particle from a Hungarian lab gives a new impetus to NA64 searches. Fresh evidence of an unknown particle that could…
Near Misses at Large Hadron Collider Shed Light on the Behavior of Gluons
New findings from University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicists Daniel Tapia Takaki and Aleksandr (Sasha) Bylinkin were just published in the European Physical Journal C….
ATLAS Experiment Observes the Decay Signature of the Higgs Boson
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has – at long last – observed the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of bottom…
CERN Open Data Portal Results Confirm Subatomic Particle Patterns
Researchers from MIT used the CMS data to reveal, for the first time, a universal feature within jets of subatomic particles, which are produced when…
New Results from the Large Hadron Collider
The latest experiment at Large Hadron Collider reports on the run’s very first particle collisions, and describes what an average collision between two protons looks…
New CERN Study Suggests Subatomic Particles Could Defy the Standard Model
New research from physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider shows evidence of leptons acting out against time-tested predictions, suggesting that subatomic particles may defy…
CERN Experiments Reveal No Difference in Mass of Proton and Antiproton
The most precise experiments ever to compare the mass of the proton and antiproton reveal no difference between the particles, determining that the masses of…
CERN Reports Observation of Pentaquark Particles
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. “The pentaquark is not just any new…
New CERN Research Details Evidence of the Direct Decay of the Higgs Boson to Fermions
New research published in Nature Physics details strong evidence of the direct decay of the Higgs boson to fermions. If evidence of the Higgs boson…
Physicists Confirm Discovery of Four-Quark Hadron
The Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration has confirmed the existence of exotic hadron with two quarks, two anti-quarks. Physicists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts…
CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen
A newly published study describes the how the ASACUSA experiment at CERN produced a beam of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. The ASACUSA experiment…
Next Generation International Linear Collider Ready for Construction
The Linear Collider Collaboration published its Technical Design Report [PDF] for the next-generation particle accelerator. The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed 31 kilometer electron-positron collider…
CERN Details New Observation of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
A new study from the LHCb collaboration at CERN details the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the…