WITCH hunt nearing end at CERN
This Halloween, meet CERN's very own WITCH – an experiment at ISOLDE, the laboratory's nuclear facility.
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Scientists expand search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider
Since the 1960s, scientists have discovered more than a dozen fundamental particles. They all have fit perfectly into the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model, the best description physicists have of the subatomic ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2024
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The secret lives of long-lived particles
The universe is unbalanced. Gravity is tremendously weak. But the weak force, which allows particles to interact and transform, is enormously strong. The mass of the Higgs boson is suspiciously petite. And the catalog of ...
General Physics
Oct 3, 2016
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The 'spinaron': New quantum effect challenges the long-held Kondo effect
For the first time, experimental physicists from the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat have demonstrated a new quantum effect aptly named the "spinaron." In a meticulously controlled environment and using an ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 26, 2023
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This is the oldest black hole ever seen
There's an incredibly ancient black hole out there that's challenging astronomers to explain how it could exist only 400 million years after the Big Bang. It's at the heart of a galaxy called GN-z11. Astronomers using JWST ...
Astronomy
Jan 23, 2024
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Understanding the early universe depends on estimating the lifespan of neutrons
When we look into the night sky, we see the universe as it once was. We know that in the past, the universe was once warmer and denser than it is now. When we look deep enough into the sky, we see the microwave remnant of ...
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2021
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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 been able ...
General Physics
Feb 24, 2010
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Titan Project explores the smallest building blocks of matter
(Phys.org) —Our world is made up of particles so tiny they may actually be points in space. These are quarks, relative newcomers to the physics conversation that were not even postulated until the mid-1960s. Put them together ...
General Physics
Mar 26, 2014
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Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson
Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed ...
General Physics
Aug 17, 2011
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Researchers at SLAC find too many taus decay from bottom quarks to fit Standard Model
(Phys.org)—In a reminder that not all important physics work is going on at CERN, researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have been sending positrons and electrons into storage rings left over from ...
