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World's best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct ...

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Einstein equations indicate possibility of black hole formation at the LHC

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the concerns that has been voiced about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is that it could result in the formation of black holes that could destroy the world. While most scientists ...

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created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (63) | comments 364 | with audio podcast feature

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 ...

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created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (43) | comments 191 | with audio podcast feature

Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the ...

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created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (38) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

Looking at quantum gravity in a mirror

Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale ...

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created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

cb(3P): New particle at the Large Hadron Collider discovered by ATLAS experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Lancaster University, analysing data taken by the ATLAS experiment, have been at the centre of what is believed to be the first clear observation of a new ...

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created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Electron's negativity cut in half by supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other. No ...

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Physicist creates scale model of LHC ATLAS experiment of out LEGO blocks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes ...

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created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (17) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

A hint of Higgs: An update from the LHC

The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that ...

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created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Atom smasher achieves 'Big Bang' collisions (Update)

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.

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created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (65) | comments 72

Antihelium-4: Physicists nab new record for heaviest antimatter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- a particle accelerator used to recreate and study conditions of the early universe at the U.S. Department ...

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created Apr 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Riddle of 'God particle' could be solved by 2012: CERN (Update)

Physicists said on Tuesday they believed that by the end of 2012 they could determine whether a theorised particle called the Higgs boson, which has unleashed a gruelling decades-long hunt, exists or not.

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created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 33

Physicists observe antihelium-4 nucleus, the heaviest antinucleus yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1932, scientists observed the first antimatter particle, a positron (or antielectron). Since then, scientists have observed heavier and heavier states of antimatter: antiprotons and antineutrons ...

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created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Large Hadron Collider smashes another record

The world's biggest particle collider set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist said.

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created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 39