News tagged with lhc accelerator

ATLAS detector ready to match large hadron collider improvements

More than 200 members of the ATLAS collaboration gathered on the Stanford campus last week to discuss how to make one of the world's biggest and best particle detectors even better.

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created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The future of Fermilab

In this month's Physics World, reviews and careers editor, Margaret Harris, visits the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) to explore what future projects are in the pipeline now that the Tevatron particle accele ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Z-prime search may hurdle Higgs hunt

If you're bummed about humanity's biggest accelerator not producing a Higgs particle yet, maybe the latest effort to find a Z-prime will make you feel better. ...

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created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week ...

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (39) | comments 3

Large Hadron Collider sets new power world record

(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the ...

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (28) | comments 14

Large Hadron Collider could test hyperdrive propulsion

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive, a possible future form of spacecraft propulsion that could drive spacecraft ...

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 5 weblog

Austria to pull out of European CERN institute

Austria is pulling out of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns.

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created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4