News tagged with tevatron collider

World's best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct ...

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

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

Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)

A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics. ...

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created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 24

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 sets world record beam intensity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Around midnight this night CERN's Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world ...

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created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

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.

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created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | 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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

Large Hadron Collider sets new record for beam energy -- 3.5 TeV

Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.

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created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 18

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

A line on string theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime ...

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 15

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 ...

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