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Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson

Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 26

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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3 Questions: Steven Nahn on the elusive Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- Troubles at the Large Hadron Collider have led some physicists to suggest the Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery. Nahn explains why he disagrees.

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Hints fade of elusive physics 'God particle'

International scientists searching to solve the greatest riddle in all of physics said Monday that signs are fading of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, which is believed to give objects mass.

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created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 31

Meeting the Higgs hunters

With CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now being fired up after its winter shutdown, physicists at the Geneva lab are gearing up for the first signs of the Higgs boson -- the never-before-seen particle that is one of the ...

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created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Large Hadron Collider powers up to unravel mysteries of nature

Outside the small village of Meyrin, Switzerland, horses graze quietly in fields lined by the Jura mountains. You'd never know it by the idyllic landscape, but 300 feet below the Swiss-French border, the Large ...

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created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

The Year of the Higgs?

This February, researchers will renew their search for one of the universe's most elusive mysteries, the Higgs boson--a hypothetical particle that if found would give an insight into why particles have certain mass.

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created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 83 | with audio podcast

Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists are closer than ever to finding the source of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, following a better than expected year of research at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle ...

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created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 216 | with audio podcast

Scientists crash lead nuclei together to create the hottest and densest nuclear material ever

The thousand-degree temperatures reached in the hottest of industrial furnaces is nothing compared to the equivalent temperatures achieved when particles traveling near the speed of light slam into each other.

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created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (31) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Researchers continue search for elusive new particles at CERN

Though sought at much higher energies than before, researchers at Texas Tech University associated with a Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continue to seek the elusive new ...

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created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A step closer to Big Bang conditions? More study is needed to confirm the latest LHC findings

Since December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing particles together at record-setting energy levels. Physicists hope that those high-energy collisions could replicate the conditions seen immediately ...

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Large Hadron Collider scientists spot potential new discovery: CERN

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.

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created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (52) | comments 54 | with audio podcast

Physicists Begin Quest for 'Higgs' Particle at European Collider

(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 ...

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