[Updated/corrected, April 22, 2015] The world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — is scheduled to restart in March of 2015, after a two year hiatus … [Read full article]
Tag: CERN
Higgs Boson, Understanding The Buzz
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, will be holding a news seminar the morning of July 4 in order to announce new results from the ATLAS and CMS … [Read full article]
Neutrinos Not Faster Than Light, New Experiments Confirm
Last September experiments done as part of the OPERA collaboration recorded faster-than-light travel by neutrinos. But new experiments done to test this finding have shown neutrinos traveling at the speed … [Read full article]
New Particle Discovered in the 'Big Bang Machine'
“Telltale signs: The snapshot of a particle collision in the CMS detector shows decay products of a Xi_b^* baryon. Easily recognizable are, among other things, the two muons (red … [Read full article]
Einstein May Still Be Right – 'Faster Than Light Neutrinos' Now Thought Due to Faulty GPS System
Not so fast…Controversial neutrino experiments showing faster-than-light-speed travel may have been due to equipment installation errors… September, 2011 claims by physicists at CERN that they had probably made sub-atomic particles … [Read full article]
Particle Collider May Have Found New Particle – Key to Missing Antimatter
Physicists attending the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Symposium in Paris this week have reported the results of their data analysis from recent proton collision experiments, and their preliminary findings just … [Read full article]
CERN: 'Speed of Light Exceeded' (Maybe) – Physics World Excited, but Skeptical
The news from CERN physicists that the speed of light “may have been exceeded” sent a lightning bolt of excitement and disbelief (not quite surpassing the speed of light) through the world’s physics community. Fully accepting that their results would be met with great skepticism, the same physicists are inviting other particle physicists and labs to verify — or disprove — their results, which, if validated, will overturn one of the principle tenets of modern physics: that nothing travels faster than the speed of ligh
Fermilab Collider's 'Last Smash' May Have Found Unknown Particle
Slated to be shuttered indefinitely (or sold for parts) later this year, the nation’s largest particle collider — the Tevatron — may have detected traces of a previously unknown specie of particle that could potentially alter Quantum Theory.
Quest for 'God Particle' Will End for Fermilab this Fall
…And with it, our chance to beat the Europeans to the quantum punch: the confirmation of the Higgs Boson — the mysterious particle that bestows mass unto all other particles. … [Read full article]
Physicists Trap Antimatter for First Time
Every known particle or atom of “normal” matter in the measurable universe has its own corresponding antiparticle which is in every way like the normal particle except for its charge … [Read full article]