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Conference highlights first results from the Large Hadron Collider

First results from the LHC at CERN are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | 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

Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons

Do electrons have a fourth property in addition to mass, charge and spin, as popular physics theories such as supersymmetry predict? Researchers from Germany, the Czech Republic and the USA want to find the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (38) | comments 28 | 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 ...

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

Experiment tests underpinnings of quantum field theory, Bose-Einstein statistics of photons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the assumptions underlying quantum mechanics and the theory that describes how particles interact at the most elementary level, perhaps the most basic is that particles are either ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

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

Durham astronomers' doubts about the 'dark side'

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong. Graduate student Utane Sawangwit ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (53) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

'Neutrino oscillation': Particle chameleon caught in the act of changing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers on the OPERA experiment at the INFN's Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy today announced the first direct observation of a tau particle in a muon neutrino beam sent through the Earth ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Scientists find evidence for significant matter-antimatter asymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation ...

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created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (41) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

CDF and D0 joint paper puts a further squeeze on the Higgs

Almost a decade after the experiments at CERN’s Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider set a limit on the mass of the Higgs boson of 114.4 GeV/c2, the two experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron, CDF and D0 have ...

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created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

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

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Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star

Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

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 ...

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

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.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (41) | comments 10

Belle Finds a Hint of New Physics in Extremely Rare B Decays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quarks, the most fundamental constituents of matters, are classified into six species grouped into three generations as predicted by Professors Kobayashi and Maskawa. The purpose of the B ...

Physics / General Physics

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