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…
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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…
Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Finds Evidence of Spectacular Four-Top Quark Production
In a new result released today, the ATLAS Collaboration announced strong evidence of the production of four top quarks. This rare Standard Model process is expected…
CERN Searches for Matter–Antimatter Asymmetry in the Higgs Boson–Top Quark Interaction
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction. Recent years have seen the study…
CERN Particle Accelerator Laser Technology Used to Improve Mobile Phone Networks
An innovative technology used to align the components of accelerators is breaking through into the field of telecommunications. The structured laser beam system, developed by…
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…
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…