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High speed beams, heaps of excitement and hunting the Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- If looking for the elusive Higgs boson particle is like searching for a needle in a haystack, research published last month has made the haystack smaller.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Search for the Higgs: What’s next?

In July, the particle collider experiments at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory revealed their latest search results for the elusive Higgs particle. Based on the analyses of data collected by the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Physicist's blog post rumors Higgs discovery at Fermilab

(PhysOrg.com) -- A rumor that Fermilab’s Tevatron may have discovered evidence of a light Higgs boson wouldn't be the first unsupported speculation from Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (38) | comments 21 | with audio podcast weblog

Large Hadron Collider gains pace: CERN

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.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 157

Study finds there may be multiple 'God particles'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research in the US suggests there may be five versions of the theorized Higgs boson.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 110 | with audio podcast report

Particle collision thought to replicate Big Bang forces, may help explain how things exist

By the logic of science, things simply shouldn't exist. The best scientific minds of several generations have reasoned that shortly after the Big Bang created the universe, matter and antimatter should have wiped each other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 30

New way to calculate the effects of Casimir forces

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have developed a powerful new tool for calculating the effects of Casimir forces, complicated quantum forces that affect only objects that are very, very close together, with ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

New high-speed integrated circuit for world's biggest physics experiment is fastest of its kind

A new high-speed integrated circuit to reliably transmit data in the demanding environment of the world's largest physics experiment is the fastest of its kind.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | 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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 5

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (30) | comments 86 | with audio podcast weblog

Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs'

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest goals of the LHC is to discover the Higgs boson, the only particle in the Standard Model that has not yet been observed. In general, physicists are pretty confident that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 45 | with audio podcast feature

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (48) | comments 23

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 29

New experiments constrain Higgs mass (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The territory where the Higgs boson may be found continues to shrink. The latest analysis of data from the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab now ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0