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…
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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…
New CERN Study Suggests Subatomic Particles Could Defy the Standard Model
New research from physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider shows evidence of leptons acting out against time-tested predictions, suggesting that subatomic particles may defy…
CERN Reports Observation of Pentaquark Particles
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. “The pentaquark is not just any new…
ATLAS Collaboration Detects Process Even Rarer Than Higgs Particle
A new published study from the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first evidence of a process that can be used to test the mechanism by which…
Physicists Confirm Discovery of Four-Quark Hadron
The Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration has confirmed the existence of exotic hadron with two quarks, two anti-quarks. Physicists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts…
CERN Details New Observation of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
A new study from the LHCb collaboration at CERN details the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the…
New Results Indicate That Particle Discovered at LHC is a Higgs Boson
After further review of the data from July’s particle discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, the new results point to the new particle having the…
The Large Hadron Collider Prepares for Shutdown
On February 14, 2013, the Large Hadron Collider will begin “Long Shutdown 1,” a shutdown period of almost two years during which the LCH will…
As Supersymmetry Fails, Physicists Looking for New Models
As the Large Hadron Collider has been unable to find any of the particles suggested by supersymmetry, theoretical particle physicists are trying to change their…
LHC Collisions May Have Yielded a New Type of Matter
A team of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider found that in a sample of 2 million lead-proton collisions, some pairs of particles flew…
Latest Data from Large Hadron Collider Gives No Inkling of New Physics
In July, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle that looked like the Higgs boson. This particle was never…
Looking Back at the Decades-Long Search for Higgs
With yesterday’s announcement of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory takes a moment to reflect on how we got to…
CERN Announces Discovery of Higgs-Like Particle in the 125 GeV Range
Too much fanfare, and a packed press room, CERN physicists announced in the early morning of July 4th the discovery of a new particle that…
CERN to Announce the Latest Results from ATLAS and CMS
With the latest results from ATLAS and CMS set to be announced on July 4, there is a lot of speculation and excitement about what…
Higgs Boson Might Have Been Discovered by LHC High Energy Physicists
In the high energy physics community, rumor and speculation is rife that Large Hadron Collider scientists will announce the discovery of the Higgs boson during…
Discussing the Search for the Higgs Particle
Does the Higgs boson particle exits? What happens if we find it and what if we don’t? These are just a few of the questions…
More Data of Elusive Higgs Boson from Defunct US Tevatron Collider
The elusive Higgs boson might have been spotted in the data collected by the Tevatron, a now shuttered collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The…