The physics lab that's home to the world's largest atom smasher announced on Tuesday the observation of three new "exotic particles" that could provide clues about the force that binds subatomic particles together.
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New particles produced in the LHC's high-energy proton-proton collisions don't hang around for long. A Higgs boson exists for less than a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second before decaying into lighter particles, ...
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Jan 18, 2018
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The Nobel Physics Prize honors big discoveries involving materials often too small to be seen by the naked eye.
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Oct 3, 2017
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Proton collisions in the Large Hadron Collider often result in the production of "jets" of particles. These jets are a key element in the measurement of many processes, such as the decays of Higgs bosons or other exotic particles. ...
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May 3, 2017
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Yesterday, 18 December 2016, the sun aligned with the centre of our galaxy to allow a pioneering experiment to take place at CERN.
Dec 19, 2016
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In July, physicists were ecstatic in announcing preliminary results pointing to the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson particle. The Higgs boson is a tiny subatomic particle that apparently weighs about 130 times as ...
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