http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Today at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by Large Hadron Collider 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 number of collisions produced. One inverse femtobarn equates to around 70 million million (70 x 1012) collisions, and in 2010 it was the target set for the 2011 run. That it has been achieved just three months after the first beams of 2011 is testimony to how well the LHC is running. http://phys.org/news227715679.html Physics Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:21:36 EST news227715679 The astonishing ATLAS Experiment at CERN in Geneva has already made headlines around the world for its pioneering research into the origins of the Universe. But incredibly, after discovering that a large number of people involved in CERN projects are accomplished musicians, ATLAS has taken the amazing step of recording and releasing an album. http://phys.org/news209193445.html Other Sciences Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:30:01 EST news209193445 Four days is all it took for the LHC operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC. After extracting the final proton beam of 2010 on 4 November, commissioning the lead-ion beam was underway by early afternoon. First collisions were recorded at 00:30 CET on 7 November, and stable running conditions marked the start of physics with heavy ions at 11:20 CET today. http://phys.org/news208438680.html Physics Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:50:18 EST news208438680 The ATLAS collaboration at CERN today officially unveiled a giant mural depicting the ATLAS particle detector, which is currently collecting data at world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. Installed in a cavern 100 metres underground, the ATLAS detector is no longer open for visits. The mural, painted on the wall of an ATLAS surface building by American artist Josef Kristofoletti, is three storeys tall yet still one-third the size of the actual detector. The mural is designed to be the next best thing to seeing the detector itself. http://phys.org/news205661009.html Other Sciences Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:04:39 EST news205661009 The most elementary components of matter, quarks and leptons, have been found, as the result of 100 years of research, to be organized into three replicating "families". The reason for this specific number or organization remains a full mystery. Flavor physics, the detailed understanding of the relationship between these families and the comparison between properties of matter and antimatter, is one of the most promising ways to explore new physics, quite complementary to the energy frontier research most notably pursued at the CERN LHC collider. Different kinds of new physics have different effects on rare decays of bottom and charmed quarks and of heavy tau leptons. These particles are all produced at SuperB in unparalleled abundance, making possible for the first time measurements of the precision required to be sensitive to the details of new physics uncovered at CERN. http://phys.org/news205506067.html Physics Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:30:04 EST news205506067 At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN protons crash into each other at incredibly high energies in order to 'smash' the protons and to study the elementary particles of nature - including quarks. Quarks are found in each proton and are bound together by forces which cause all other known forces of nature to fade. To understand the effects of these strong forces between the quarks is one of the greatest challenges in modern particle physics. New theoretical results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that enormous quantities of random numbers can describe the way in which quarks ’swing’ inside the protons. The results have been published in arXiv and will be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. http://phys.org/news204809213.html Physics Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:27:18 EST news204809213 Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher said Tuesday they appeared to have discovered a previously unobserved phenomenon in their quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. http://phys.org/news204290256.html Physics Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:17:56 EST news204290256 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Hawaiian man's lawsuit to try to prevent operations of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been dismissed due to a failure to show a "credible threat of harm," according to the judge. And, as ruled in 2008, the judge again concluded that the US government is not the correct party to bring the suit against since the US doesn't control LHC operations. http://phys.org/news203573289.html Other Sciences Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:08:44 EST news203573289 A huge physics detector that will scour outer space for clues to the origins of the universe began the first stage of its voyage to the International Space Station at Geneva airport on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news201940363.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:56:54 EST news201940363 The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN next Tuesday on the next leg of its journey to the International Space Station. The AMS detector is being transported from CERN to Geneva International Airport in preparation for its planned departure from Switzerland on 26 August, when it will be flown to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on board a US Air Force Galaxy transport aircraft. http://phys.org/news201429290.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:10:01 EST news201429290 First results from the LHC at CERN are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - are today presenting measurements from the first three months of successful LHC operation at 3.5 TeV per beam, an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator. http://phys.org/news199363469.html Physics Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:20:01 EST news199363469 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists working at the CERN nuclear research lab on the border of Switzerland and France have generated the coldest particles of antimatter ever recorded. http://phys.org/news197657931.html Physics Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:59:04 EST news197657931 The world's biggest atom smasher is swiftly gaining pace as scientists seek to unravel the secrets of the universe, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday. http://phys.org/news196944618.html Physics Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:50:55 EST news196944618 (PhysOrg.com) -- More than two dozen UC San Diego physicists and technicians began their long-awaited quest last week in a research facility below the Swiss-French border to find a hypothetical subatomic particle that they hope will allow them to finally tie together the fundamental forces and particles in nature into one grand theory. http://phys.org/news189869568.html Physics Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:50:02 EST news189869568 The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang - a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. http://phys.org/news189231521.html Physics Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:30:01 EST news189231521 (PhysOrg.com) -- Now the research begins for the team of University of Arizona physicists who built pieces of the largest scientific instrument ever, the Large Hadron Collider. http://phys.org/news189185800.html Physics Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:36:50 EST news189185800 Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels, opening a new era in the quest for the universe's deepest secrets. http://phys.org/news189152837.html Physics Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:24:20 EST news189152837 On Tuesday, Mar. 30, the world's most powerful particle accelerator is scheduled to begin slamming subatomic particles together at record energies and recording the consequences of the micro-explosions that result, opening a new chapter in scientists' efforts to answer some of the most fundamental questions in physics. http://phys.org/news189146188.html Physics Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:36:52 EST news189146188 Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher seeking to unravel the secrets of the universe got off to a faltering start on Tuesday, when they failed to collide two high-energy proton beams. http://phys.org/news189145452.html Physics Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:24:48 EST news189145452 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious properties of dark matter and perhaps even extra dimensions in the universe. http://phys.org/news188645541.html Physics Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:53 EST news188645541 (PhysOrg.com) -- With beams routinely circulating in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, CERN has set the date for the start of the LHC research programme. The first attempt for collisions at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) is scheduled for 30 March. http://phys.org/news188572366.html Physics Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:13:16 EST news188572366 'Hadron Collider to be closed amid fears of a very big bang' read the headline in a major English newspaper and sparked controversy over the future of CERN. Was there a future for the large European research center? http://phys.org/news187983274.html Physics Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:49:43 EST news187983274 The world's most powerful atom smasher will be brought up to unprecedented power by early April, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news187442491.html Physics Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:22:27 EST news187442491 A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. http://phys.org/news187346395.html Other Sciences Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:40:08 EST news187346395 (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher could generate its first scientific breakthrough later this year when operators hope to make discoveries into the elusive nature of dark matter, the director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Monday. http://phys.org/news187271152.html Physics Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:46:33 EST news187271152 Scientists have restarted the world's most powerful atom-smasher overnight, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they launch a new bid to uncover the secrets of the universe. http://phys.org/news186578000.html Physics Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:14:14 EST news186578000 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the Christmas holiday, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was shut down for a break and for a little technical tinkering. But next week, the hope is that the LHC will start up again around the 25 of February. http://phys.org/news185809165.html Physics Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:09:12 EST news185809165 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have just published results of the first analysis of data from the highest energy particle collisions ever carried out, bringing us another step closer to answering some of the most fundamental questions about our Universe. The results appear in the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). http://phys.org/news185649606.html Physics Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:20:59 EST news185649606 The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) left CERN this morning on the first leg of its journey to the International Space Station (ISS). A special convoy carrying the experiment is due to arrive at the European Space Agency’s research and technology centre, ESTEC, at Noordwijk in the Netherlands in six days time. Once there, the detector will undergo testing of its ability to survive a shuttle lift-off and to operate in space. Twenty members of the AMS collaboration will accompany the detector on its journey. http://phys.org/news185200551.html Space & Earth Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:36:39 EST news185200551 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the University of Glasgow has predicted the mass of a new particle which would help explain one of the fundamental forces of the universe. http://phys.org/news183708010.html Physics Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:01:00 EST news183708010