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Physicists first to observe rare particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider

Shortly after experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland began yielding scientific data last fall, a group of scientists led by a Syracuse University physicist became the ...

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created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

The search for sparticles

One of the key theories underpinning modern physics is being tested by the latest results from the LHC’s ATLAS experiment.

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created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4

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

Pioneering atom smashing bid makes faltering start

Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher seeking to unravel the secrets of the universe got off to a faltering start on Tuesday, when they failed to collide two high-energy proton beams.

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created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have just published results of the first analysis of data from the highest energy particle collisions ever carried out, bringing us ...

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created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 63 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider preparing 2010 new science restart

At its 153rd session today, the CERN Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last ...

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created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 3

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

City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

(AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.

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created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 27

Giant atom-smasher set to restart this weekend: CERN

The world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults, is set to restart this weekend, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Friday.

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 8

Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher

A peckish bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday.

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (17) | comments 22

Particles are back in the LHC

During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 2

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

CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider

CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate ...

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created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3