Breaking data records bit by bit
This year CERN's data centre broke its own record, when it collected more data than ever before.
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Dec 14, 2017
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News tagged with high energy physics
Gamma rays reach beyond the limits of light
Researchers have discovered a highly efficient way to produce high energy photon beams. The obtained energy is a billion times higher than the energy of photons in visible light. These high-intensity gamma rays significantly ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 20, 2017
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Astronomers use IAC instrument to probe the origins of cosmic rays
In November 1572 a supernova explosion was observed in the direction of the constellation of Cassiopeia, and its most famous observer was Tycho Brahe, one of the founders of modern observational astronomy. The explosion produced ...
Astronomy
Oct 6, 2017
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New theory on the origin of dark matter
Only a small part of the universe consists of visible matter. By far the largest part is invisible and consists of dark matter and dark energy. Very little is known about dark energy, but there are many theories and experiments ...
General Physics
Aug 8, 2017
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How can high-energy physics help the water shortage?
It might be hard to imagine what link there could be between a huge scientific machine underneath Geneva and a field of tomatoes in Lebanon but both need advanced technology to achieve their best results. Even if they seem ...
General Physics
Jan 23, 2017
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A clean room for making sensors to find light from the birth of the universe
It takes a very, very clean room to build a detector sensitive enough to see the light from the beginning of the universe.
General Physics
Oct 18, 2016
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Only Canadian-led experiment at Large Hadron Collider gets first results
While Canadians were winning medals at the Olympics in Rio de Janiero this summer, MoEDAL (pronounced "medal"), the only Canadian-led experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, celebrated its first published ...
General Physics
Sep 14, 2016
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Scientists study effects of extra space dimensions in particle physics and cosmology
There are many theoretical models to explain such aspects of high energy physics as dark matter, theory of inflation, bariosynthesis, the Higgs mechanism, etc. The discovery of universal expansion is accelerating, precise ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2016
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Better defining the signals left by as-yet-undefined dark matter at the LHC
In the quest for dark matter, physicists rely on particle colliders such as the LHC in CERN, located near Geneva, Switzerland. The trouble is: physicists still don't exactly know what dark matter is. Indeed, they can only ...
General Physics
Jul 26, 2016
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Large hadron collider prepares to deliver six times the data
After months of winter hibernation, the Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons and taking data. The LHC will run around the clock for the next six months and produce roughly 2 quadrillion high-quality proton ...
General Physics
May 10, 2016
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