News tagged with collider
Geneva atom smasher seeks dark matter discoveries
(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 ...
Mar 08, 2010 |
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From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter -- and new questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A worldwide team of researchers have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the universe - the so-called "Big Bang" ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Detecting proton collisions at unprecedented levels of energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between the highest-energy particles ever generated. These collisions were performed at CERN's new LHC accelerator and recorded ...
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Measuring material hotter than the sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Vanderbilt physicists are members of the scientific team that have reported creating an exotic state of matter with a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius. It's the hottest temperature ...
Mar 02, 2010 |
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World's most powerful atom smasher restarts: CERN
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.
Feb 28, 2010 |
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LHC Ready for Duty Again
(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 ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC (w/ Video)
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup (w/ Video)
Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference "atom smasher" at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Record-breaking LHC collisions offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier
(PhysOrg.com) -- In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.
Feb 05, 2010 |
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A Lawyer's View of the Risk of Black Hole Catastrophe at the LHC
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just bringing up the topic of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) creating a black hole that destroys the Earth might seem unscientific and out of place on a science news website. After all, the ...
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma
After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Top 10 Sci-Tech Stories Of The Decade
Discoveries, devices, and developments that have changed the way we view our world over the past ten years.
Jan 11, 2010 |
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What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal?
With its successful test run at the end of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, seized the world record for the highest-energy particle collisions created by mankind. We can now reflect ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Astronomers: We could find Earth-like planets soon
(AP) -- Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.
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Jan 07, 2010 |
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