Advanced Detectors for a New Era of ATLAS Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS Experiment at CERN welcomes a brand-new detector: the Muon New Small Wheel system. Its successful installation follows nearly a decade of design and…
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CERN’s ALICE Detector Takes the Next Step in Understanding the Interaction Between Hadrons
The ALICE collaboration has for the first time observed the residual strong interaction between protons and phi mesons. In an article recently published in Physical…
For the First Time Ever, Physicists Detect Signs of Neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
Scientific first at CERN facility a preview of upcoming 3-year research campaign. The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of…
A Triple Treat From Large Hadron Collider: Three J/ψ Particles Emerging From a Single Collision Between Two Protons
In a first for particle physics, the CMS collaboration has observed three J/ψ particles emerging from a single collision between two protons. It’s a triple…
New Force of Nature? Tantalizing Evidence for New Physics From CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as particle physicists reported tantalizing evidence for new physics — potentially a new force of…
New Fundamental Physics? Unexplainable Phenomena From Large Hadron Collider Experiment
Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of fundamental physics….
Twice the Charm: Long-Lived Exotic Particle Discovered at Large Hadron Collider
Discovery of a new exotic hadron containing two charm quarks and an up and a down antiquark. Recently, the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment…
Successful Installation of the CMS Pixel Tracker at the Large Hadron Collider
After more than two years of maintenance and upgrades, the Pixel Tracker has been installed at the center of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector…
Antimatter: Scientists Trap Elusive Material by Blasting It With Lasers
Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way – with…
Awake Next-Generation Acceleration Particle Experiment Brings Proton Bunches Into Sync
Important milestone for next-generation acceleration experiment. The future of particle acceleration has begun. Awake is a promising concept for a completely new method with which…
Under the Radar: Searching for Stealthy Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our current knowledge of elementary particles and their interactions. However, the standard model is not complete; for example,…
CERN Scientists Successfully Laser-Cool Antimatter for the First Time
The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the response of antimatter to light and of how it behaves under the influence…
Intriguing New Results From Large Hadron Collider Challenge Leading Theory in Physics
Scientists at UZH and CERN have just released new intriguing results. According to the international research collaboration that runs the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb)…
New Result From Large Hadron Collider Challenges Leading Theory in Physics – Cannot Be Explained by Our Current Laws of Nature
Imperial physicists are part of a team that has announced ‘intriguing’ results that potentially cannot be explained by our current laws of nature. The LHCb…
After 50-Year International Hunt, Physicists Discover Mythical Odderon Particle
For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particle…
Explaining the Quirks of the Universe: “Search of a Lifetime” for Supersymmetric Particles at CERN
University of Chicago researchers hunt for proposed particles that could explain quirks of the universe. A team of researchers at the University of Chicago recently…
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…
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…
