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Twenty years of a free, open web
On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web (“W3″, or simply “the web”) technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to […]
LHC upgrade to open up ‘new realm of particle physics’
April 2, 2013
Engineers have begun a major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Their work should double the energy of what’s already the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. BBC News is the first to be allowed to see inside the LHC – on the French-Swiss border – to watch the work being carried out. […]
Physicists unveil plans for ‘LEP3′ collider at CERN
August 9, 2012
A group of physicists from Switzerland, Japan, Russia, US and the UK has proposed using the tunnel that currently houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva for a dedicated machine to study the Higgs boson. The facility, dubbed LEP3, is named after CERN’s previous accelerator, the Large Electron–Positron Collider […]
Live: Latest update in the search for the Higgs boson
July 3, 2012
press here: CERN webcast (update) CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought […]
Is the moon full? Just ask the LHC operators
June 8, 2012
Last weekend, I had the pleasure to be shift leader for ATLAS. It was a real pleasure for many reasons: being right in the middle of the action, surrounded by an international team of enthusiastic and dedicated people, and taking part in great teamwork. The shift crew (about ten people plus dozens of experts on […]
New CERN Results On Rare B Decays
June 8, 2012
A Tombstone To SUSY ? The CERN average of searches for rare B decays to muon pairs has been shown yesterday in a talk given by Mitesh Patel at the “Physics at the LHC” conference, which is being held in Vancouver (BC) this week. And the results are not very encouraging for supporters of Supersymmetry: the […]
LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics
March 5, 2012
Geneva, 5 March 2012. Results presented by the LHCb collaboration this evening at the annual ‘Rencontres de Moriond’ conference, held this year in La Thuile, Italy, have put one of the most stringent limits to date on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model. LHCb tests the Standard Model by measuring extremely rare […]
Searching for Higgs: from LEP towards LHC
December 23, 2011
W.-D. Schlatter (CERN), P. M. Zerwas (DESY) After a brief introduction to the theoretical basis of the Higgs mechanism for generating the masses of elementary particles, the experimental searches for Higgs particles will be summarized, from bounds at LEP to inferences for LHC. The report will focus on the Standard Model, though some central results […]
LHC reports discovery of its first new particle
December 22, 2011
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009. Known as Chi-b (3P), it is a boson – the label given to particles that can carry the forces of nature. The as-yet unpublished discovery isreported on the Arxiv pre-print server. The […]
LHC proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion
October 31, 2011
Geneva, 31 October 2011. After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion (4×1014) proton proton collisions, the LHC’s 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered […]
Scientists at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider near end of the search for the Higgs boson
October 9, 2011
For almost 20 years, Bill Murray has been hunting the Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic particle that is thought to give mass to the basic building blocks of nature. In those two decades, the 45-year-old Edinburgh-born researcher has watched the search for the holy grail of physics narrow to a tighter and tighter group of […]
Is The Higgs Boson Somewhere Inside Your iphone?
October 8, 2011
LHSee: discover what happen at the LHC. Want to find out how to Hunt the Higgs Boson using your phone? Ever wondered how the Large Hadron Collider experiments work, and what the collisions look like? Scientists at the world’s biggest scientific experiment – the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva – are trying to answer […]
Making CERN’s best even better
September 29, 2011
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running, but the lab is already planning an audacious upgrade using technology not yet invented, as Matthew Chalmers reports It is hard to imagine upgrading an instrument as big and complex as the SwFr6.5bn (€10bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva. The […]
Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed
September 23, 2011
A CERN experiment claims to have caught neutrinos breaking the universe’s most fundamental speed limit. The ghostly subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy. Fish that physics textbook back out of the wastebasket, though: the new result contradicts previous measurements […]
Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment
September 22, 2011
Read also: A Six-Sigma Signal Of Superluminal Neutrinos From Opera! If it’s true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein’s theory of […]
Month-end target mooted for finding “no Higgs”
September 6, 2011
U.S.-based physicists said on Monday they hope to have enough data by the end of this month to establish if the elusive Higgs boson, a particle thought to have made the universe possible, exists in its long-predicted form. If the answer is no, scientists around the globe will have to rethink the 40-year-old Standard Model […]
Higgs boson signals fade at Large Hadron Collider
August 22, 2011
Cern scientist says he sees ‘no striking evidence of anything that could resemble a discovery’ in hunt for Higgs boson Ripples of excitement swept through the physics community last month when Cern scientists reported what looked like glimpses of the long-sought Higgs boson. But the hopes have been dashed as it was revealed that the tantalising hints had all but […]
The Big Bang in pictures…
August 1, 2011
…Scientists produce computer images of particle explosions similar to the greatest ever galactic light show It may look like a firework display in the night sky but these explosive images could be the closest we have yet come to snapshot from the birth of the universe itself. The computer generated images are the result of […]
LHC achieves 2011 data milestone
June 18, 2011
Geneva, 17 June 2011. Today at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS clicked over from 0.999 to 1 inverse femtobarn, signalling an important milestone in the experiments’ quest for new physics. The number signifies a quantity physicists call integrated luminosity, which is a measure of the total […]
Origin Of Life At CERN
June 13, 2011
When you think of Cern, the enormous particle accelerator under Geneva, you probably think of particle physics. But the institution is also helping out biologists too. On 20 May, a small group of biologists and chemists arrived at Cern for a workshop from the institution’s experts on how to organise a disparate community of research groups all […]
LHC Sets New Collisions Record
May 24, 2011
….”100 Million Collisions per Second” European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists look at computer screens showing traces on the Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its switch-on operation in 2008 near Geneva. It set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest […]
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