The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. It is a 27-kilometer (17-mile) ring-shaped tunnel that accelerates particles to nearly the speed of light and then collides them with each other. The collisions produce high-energy subatomic particles that can be studied by scientists to better understand the fundamental laws of nature.
The LHC has been a major focus of particle physics research since it began operation in 2008. It has made numerous groundbreaking discoveries, including the detection of the Higgs boson, a particle that is believed to give other particles mass. The LHC is also used to search for new particles and study the properties of matter and antimatter.
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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how new particles are detected in LHC experiments. By training AI to recognize and differentiate between typical and atypical jets, researchers…
Researchers at the University of Rochester, working with the CMS Collaboration at CERN, have made significant advancements in measuring the electroweak mixing angle, enhancing our…
With this measurement, the Large Hadron Collider again demonstrated its ability to provide very high-precision measurements and bring new insights into an old mystery. The…
Researchers have confirmed that quantum entanglement persists between top quarks, the heaviest known fundamental particles. Physicists have demonstrated quantum entanglement in top quarks and their…
Two decades after the first proof of photon entanglement, the ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed quantum entanglement between top quarks and their antiparticles at…
Argonne National Laboratory scientists have used anomaly detection in the ATLAS collaboration to search for new particles, identifying a promising anomaly that could indicate new…
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are probing new particles beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics, aiming to unravel its limitations and foster advancements…
This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced…
Researchers investigate whether dark matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles. The existence of dark matter is a long-standing puzzle…
CMS presents results of searches for long-lived neutral particles. The CMS collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has recently presented new results in searches for…
New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%. The ATLAS collaboration has achieved the most precise measurement to date…
A study conducted by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Accelerator has gained insights into the properties of strong interactions between protons at ultra-high…
The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind. The Big Bang is…
What happens if dark-matter particles are produced inside a jet of Standard-Model particles? This leads to a novel detector signature known as semi-visible jets! The…
Where does the Higgs boson come from? The CERN Theoretical Physics department hosted a workshop to explore unconventional explanations for the Higgs boson’s properties and…
The first phase involves a major geographical, geological, and environmental data-gathering effort. CERN is exploring the Future Circular Collider (FCC) as a potential successor to…
Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season. After a 17-week year-end technical stop (YETS) for maintenance and…