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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Know When to Unfold ’Em: Applying High Energy Physics Methods to Quantum Computing
‘Unfolding’ techniques used to improve the accuracy of particle detector data can also improve the readout of quantum states from a quantum computer. Borrowing a…
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…
Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light
Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen? The Large…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the Next 50 Years Our Place in the Universe Will Change Dramatically – Here’s How
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: “There is nothing…
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….
Boosting Computing Power With Machine Learning for the Future of Particle Physics
Prototype machine-learning technology co-developed by MIT scientists speeds processing by up to 175 times over traditional methods.ning A new machine learning technology tested by an…
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…