CMS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider Sets New Bounds on the Mass of Leptoquarks
The bounds are some of the tightest yet on the existence of third-generation leptoquarks. At the most fundamental level, matter is made up of two…
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Breakthrough in Nuclear Physics: Strong Interaction Between Stable and Unstable Particles
High-precision measurements of the strong interaction between stable and unstable particles. The positively charged protons in atomic nuclei should actually repel each other, and yet…
Extreme State of Matter: Evidence of Top Quarks in Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
The result opens the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly…
Extremely Rare Higgs Boson Decay Process Spotted at the Large Hadron Collider
The Higgs boson reached overnight fame in 2012 when it was finally discovered in a jumble of other particles generated at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…
CERN Timepix Technology Helps Rediscover Lost Painting by the Great Renaissance Master, Raphael
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael. 500 years…
CERN’s Newest Accelerator Awakens: Linac 4 Has Taken Over As the First Accelerator in LHC Injection Chain
The CERN Control Centre (CCC) is abuzz once again. The second long shutdown (LS2) has come to an end for CERN’s newest accelerator – Linac 4…
Large Hadron Collider Beauty Discovers First “Open-Charm” Tetraquark
The particle, which has been called X(2900), was detected by analyzing all the data LHCb has recorded so far from collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron…
Jetting Into the Dark Side: ATLAS’ Precision Search for Dark Matter
The nature of dark matter remains one of the great unsolved puzzles of fundamental physics. Unexplained by the Standard Model, dark matter has led scientists…
Large Hadron Collider: Could the Higgs Boson Decay Into Dark Matter?
Probing Dark Matter With the Higgs Boson Visible matter – everything from pollen to stars and galaxies – accounts for roughly 15% of the total…
Large Hadron Collider Detects Evidence of a Rare Higgs Boson Process: God Particle Decaying Into a Pair of Muons
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider have seen evidence of a new type of decay not yet observed: the Higgs boson…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Breaking New Ground in the Search for Dark Matter
The latest on the Large Hadron Collider’s hunt for the hypothetical particle that may make up dark matter. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is renowned…
Long-Standing Tension in the Standard Model of Particle Physics Addressed by ATLAS Experiment at CERN
A new ATLAS measurement of a key feature of the Standard Model known as lepton flavor universality suggests that a previous discrepancy measured by the…
Gamma Factory: New ‘Super Light Source’ at CERN for Fascinating Insights Into Atoms
International team of scientists with Mainz participation proposes plans for high-intensity gamma radiation source at CERN. The ‘Gamma Factory initiative’ – an international team of scientists…
Exotic Never Before Seen Four-Quark Particle Discovered Using Large Hadron Collider
The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time. The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration…
Superconducting Magnets of the Future in the Making at CERN
Over the past thirty years, the exploration of the infinitely small has gone hand-in-hand with advances in superconducting magnets. The increasingly powerful hadron colliders, from…
AMS Detector Data From Space Station Challenges Conventional Theories on Cosmic-Rays
Cosmic-ray data collected by the AMS detector on the International Space Station again challenge conventional theory of cosmic-ray origin and propagation. Ever since astronauts attached…
New Antimatter Experiment at Large Hadron Collider Will Help With the Search for Dark Matter
The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far…
Researchers Use CLOUD Chamber at CERN to Find a Potential Explanation for Urban Smog
The effect of nitric acid on aerosol particles in the atmosphere may offer an explanation for the smog seen engulfing cities on frosty days. Under…