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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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….
Physicists Probe Light Smashups To Guide Future Research Beyond the Standard Model
Understanding photon collisions could aid search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Hot on the heels of proving an 87-year-old prediction that matter can be…
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…
Intriguing New Results From Large Hadron Collider Challenge Leading Theory in Physics
Researchers 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…
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…
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…