The Standard Model of Particle Physics May Be Broken – A Physicist at the Large Hadron Collider Explains
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, one of the questions I am most frequently asked is “When are you…
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New and Surprising Duality Discovered in Theoretical Particle Physics
A new and surprising duality has been found in theoretical particle physics. The duality exists between two types of scattering processes that can occur in…
Large Hadron Collider Restarts After 3 Years of Upgrades: Particle Collisions at World-Record Energy Levels
Beams of protons are again circulating around the collider’s 27-kilometer ring, marking the end of a multiple-year hiatus for upgrade work. In 2022, CERN is…
Large Hadron Collider Reveals Secret of Antimatter Creation in Cosmic Collisions
Recently at the Quark Matter conference and before that at the Rencontres de Moriond conference, the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration presented an analysis of…
Large Hadron Collider Measures Mass of the Top Quark With Unparalleled Accuracy
Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to understanding our world at the smallest scale. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at…
Homing In on the Higgs Boson’s Interaction With the Charm Quark at the Large Hadron Collider
New ATLAS and CMS analyses place tight limits on the strength of the Higgs boson’s interaction with the charm quark. Since the discovery of the…
ATLAS Experiment at Large Hadron Collider Seeks Out Unusual Signatures of Long-Lived Particles
Physicists at the ATLAS experiment are on the hunt for new, long-lived particles to help explain several outstanding mysteries of our Universe. Physicists at the…
Largest Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Observed at Large Hadron Collider
New results from the LHCb experiment on CP asymmetry in charmless three-body charged B meson decays include the largest CP asymmetry ever observed. CP asymmetry…
Large Hadron Collider Experiments Step Up the Data Processing Game With GPUs
While data processing demand is rocketing for LHC’s Run 3, the four large experiments are increasing their use of GPUs to improve their computing infrastructure….
Large Hadron Collider: First Detection of Exotic “X” Particles in Quark-Gluon Plasma
The findings could redefine the kinds of particles that were abundant in the early universe. In the first millionths of a second after the Big…
Large Hadron Collider: New Insight Into the Internal Structure of the Proton
While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is well known for smashing protons together, it is actually the quarks and gluons inside the protons – collectively…
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…
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…