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LHC Will Operate at 8 TeV Total Output in 2012 [Video]

Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider will operate at a higher energy level in 2012 than last year. The combined output the particle accelerator will produce will reach 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV), 1 TeV above 2011 levels. This can be translated into...

14 February 2012
14:01 GMT

'God's Particle' May Remain Hidden for Now

Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the rumors making the rounds recently – that the Higgs boson has been finally identified by two particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider – may not necessarily be true. The two LHC detectors in question are the Compact Muo...

13 December 2011
04:51 GMT

LHC to Make Important Announcement About the Higgs Boson

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator may have discovered the Higgs boson, voices online say. The speculation was prompted by the fact that the European Organization for Nuclear Research [CERN] said that an important announcement about the particle is to be made next week. The Higgs boson is an unconf...

9 December 2011
10:45 GMT

Unknown Debris Hinder High-Energy Physics at LHC

Observations physicists are trying to conduct at the world's largest particle accelerator are hampered by what the team there plastically refers to as UFOs. They say that unidentified falling objects continue to get in the way of the accelerated proton beams, stifling observations. The Large Hadron Collider (L...

29 November 2011
09:49 GMT

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Confirmed Yet Again

Heeding advice coming in their direction from a wide variety of sources, researchers at the Italian lab that proposed the existence of faster-than-light neutrinos recreated their experiments, only to discover the same results over and over again. Since their paper was first published, on September 23, the internati...

21 November 2011
06:56 GMT

LHC Concludes Proton Collisions for This Year

At 5:15 pm yesterday evening, October 30, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) conducted its last proton collisions for 2011. The announcement was made yesterday by officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the lab. In total, the LHC ran proton collisions for exactly 180 days this...

1 November 2011
11:57 GMT

Intel and CERN Extend openlab Partnership Through 2014

Intel and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have announced earlier today that the two organizations have extended their agreement to collaborate on the CERN openlab project through 2014.Intel has been a major contributor to the CERN openlab since its conception in 2003 and has also worked with CER...

26 October 2011
09:51 GMT

Explanation for Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Proposed

Scientists with the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (GSNL), in Italy, a few weeks ago proposed the existence of neutrinos traveling faster than light. A researcher now provides a possible explanation for the readings. The data the OPERA team submit...

14 October 2011
10:39 GMT

LHC May Have Found the Higgs Boson

A couple of weeks ago, researchers working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of tantalizing clues that may indicate the Higgs boson. Physicists from around the world are now looking through the new data, hoping to confirm or infirm the discoveries. The announcement was made at a meeting of th...

16 August 2011
05:03 GMT

Discovery of Higgs Boson May Be Imminent

At a conference being held in Grenoble, France, experts presented a set of papers which appear to indicate that an announcement on the discovery of the Higgs boson is imminent. There is however no way to tell for sure, so only time will tell, analysts believe.The optimism sweeping through scientists comes from the La...

26 July 2011
03:31 GMT

LHC Experiments Present Results for 2011

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announces that all the discoveries made at its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator will be presented during a series of major summer conferences, that began today, July 21, in Grenoble, France.A press conference to sum up all the findings will be held...

21 July 2011
10:25 GMT

Using Black Holes as Particle Accelerators

Our understanding of how black holes work from a physics perspective holds that these objects should be capable of accelerating particles at much higher energies than equipment built here on Earth ever could. Now, investigators are looking into methods of making this a reality. The international collaboration of rese...

14 July 2011
05:10 GMT

LHC To Help Uncover Origins of Life

Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), underneath Geneva, say that the machine may be used for shedding more light on the origins of life. This conclusion was drawn after a group of elite experts discussed the idea in a workshop. The purpose of the meeting was to determine whether the massive scientif...

14 June 2011
05:28 GMT

LHC Sets New Collisions Record

Officials with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator – has broken new records on Monday. On May 23, the instrument collided more protons than any other accelerator. Over the past...

24 May 2011
07:37 GMT

LHC Experiment May Have Found Higgs Boson

According to a memo that leaked on the Internet, it could be that one of the four particle detectors installed on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to discover the Higgs boson.This particle is the reason why the 27-kilometer-long accelerator was built on the French-Swiss border, near Geneva. The Standard Model ...

23 April 2011
05:47 GMT

LHC Could Allow Matter to Travel Through Time

A new theory holds that the Large Hadron Collider may be the first man-made machinery capable of allowing matter to travel back and forth through time. This is accomplished by enabling specific elementary particles to enter a fifth dimension.According to the proposal, the collisions taking place at the LHC at energy ...

16 March 2011
10:37 GMT

Europe Needs a CERN for Mathematics

The European Science Foundation launched the idea that Europe needs an Institute of Industrial Mathematics to strengthen the link between maths and industry as an enabler of innovation, in a report presented at the “Maths and Industry” Conference, yesterday, in Brussels. Andreas Schuppert from Bayer Techn...

2 December 2010
03:16 GMT

High-Energy Proton Collisions End at the LHC

Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, has just finished its mission of colliding protons head-on at high energy levels.This was the first record-setting run that the facility conducted sinc...

4 November 2010
11:41 GMT

New Physical Phenomenon Found at LHC

While most of the scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) expected to further the boundaries of physics as they did so, very few expected this to happen this fast. It would appear that a never-before-seen phenomenon has been observed at the accelerator. According to reports, it would seem that operators...

22 September 2010
10:46 GMT

Lawsuit Against the LHC Overthrown

A Court in Hawaii has just rejected a new lawsuit brought against the Large Hadron Collider. The plaintiffs failed to produce any evidence that the machine is dangerous, the ruling says. The decision was passed down on August 24, by a Hawaiian appeals court. The judges said that the US Department of Energy (DOE) and ...

28 August 2010
03:42 GMT

The AMS Prepares for Kennedy Space Center

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) will leave the European Organization for Nuclear Research next Tuesday, heading for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the next step before getting to the International Space Station.A press conference will be held at the Geneva International Airport at 9:00 CEST on 25 August, ...

19 August 2010
05:38 GMT

First LHC Results at the ICHEP 2010

The first results from the LHC at CERN are being presented at the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics, the world’s largest international conference on particle physics, held this year in Paris. Representatives of the four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LH...

26 July 2010
04:56 GMT

CERN To Shutdown All Its Particle Accelerators

Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced today that the shutdown planned for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will indeed stretch for more than a year. Initially, they announced that the particle accelerator would only be closed throughout 2012, but it would appear that the extent o...

26 July 2010
04:51 GMT

Tau Particle Sent Through the Earth Found

A group of investigators in Italy announced yesterday, May 31, that they were able to identify tau particles sent through the ground for the first time ever. The elementary particles were encased in a muon neutrino beam, which was sent from a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) facility some 730 kilomet...

1 June 2010
05:56 GMT

LHC Ready for New Science Phase

By the end of this summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most advanced and massive particle accelerator in the world, could become able to search for new elementary particles. The search will take place in an energy domain range that has never been explored before. The LHC is the holder of the world's rec...

18 May 2010
09:46 GMT

LHC Could Create Bizarre Magnetic Particle

Physicists operating the largest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are very hopeful that their collisions of proton beams will result in many wonderful discoveries. In addition to gaining more insight into the Big Bang, the moment when the Universe exploded into beings, and more know...

1 April 2010
02:02 GMT

LHC Finally Begins New Science Experiments

Yesterday morning, a new phase in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) science program began. For the first time ever, streams of protons have been collided head-on against each other at an energy level no lower than 7 teraelectronvolts (TeV), about three times higher than previously-attained energies. This is basically t...

31 March 2010
08:34 GMT

The LHC Will Be Shut Down at the End of 2011

After they began operating the world's largest particle accelerator, or possibly even before, engineers started noticing a number of design flaws at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest scientific experiment in the world. They have therefore decided to halt work at the machine throughout 2012, and to res...

10 March 2010
07:00 GMT

First Science Produced at LHC

Scientists at the CERN-operated Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have proudly announced the first scientific results from the world's largest physics experiment and particle accelerator. They publish the first study based entirely in the observations carried out at the Collider, on two opposite beams of protons, whic...

15 December 2009
10:29 GMT

New World Record Achieved at the LHC

According to representatives at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has officially become the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. The gigantic machine, which is arguably the largest and most complicated physics project ever undertaken, has exceeded the p...

30 November 2009
04:37 GMT

New Early Warning System Installed at LHC

According to initial plans, the Large Hadron Collider should have already produced its first scientific results by now. But, as it stands, malfunctions have delayed its operation considerably, and now experts are working around the clock on bringing the largest particle accelerator in the world back online. As repair...

28 September 2009
06:32 GMT

LHC Re-Opening Delayed at Least Two Months

Shortly after managing to fix the helium leaks that forced engineers to shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last September, project managers discovered another fluke. This time, they identified two areas of vacuum leak, in regions of the particle accelerator that needed to be cooled near absolute zero. The new ...

21 July 2009
02:24 GMT

The Real Benefits of Particle Physics

Hollywood movies have always had the talent of inspiring panic where there was usually nothing to fear, and the latest productions are no different, what with the threat of the Vatican being destroyed by antimatter generated at the Large Hadron Collider and all that. Needless to say, the script is pure fantasy, but p...

29 May 2009
05:52 GMT

Getting Ready to Restart the LHC

After constructions that lasted more than a decade and billions of dollars invested in the world's largest scientific experiment, physicists who are now operating the Large Hadron Collider have just realized that they don't really know how the entire system works, in all of its details. As a result, they sa...

27 May 2009
05:17 GMT

Austria Will Remain in CERN, Officials Announce

According to the latest developments in Austria, the country will remain a part of the massive European physics research initiative CERN, the main operator of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Earlier this month, the nation announced that it would withdraw from the cooperation, in order to invest the money it had caug...

19 May 2009
05:59 GMT

Austria Plans on Quitting CERN

Austrian science minister Johannes Hahn has recently announced that the nation would withdraw from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), seeking to reinvest the money it has caught up in the scientific project into other endeavors. The announcement comes at a very bad time, just six months before the...

9 May 2009
05:25 GMT

No Antimatter Generated by the LHC

The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) is currently trying to reassure people of the fact that it's physically impossible to create antimatter in the world's largest particle accelerator, so as to allay fears that have been growing over the past years. In Dan Brown's book, “Angels & Demo...

13 February 2009
15:31 GMT

LHC Reopening Postponed Until September

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has recently announced that the deadline for the completion of the repairs currently being made on its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator near Geneva has been pushed back until late September, amidst concerns that the helium cooling system may fail a...

10 February 2009
03:39 GMT

New LHC Chief Urges Caution

The Large Hadron Collider is currently the largest particle accelerator in the world, built under the Swiss-Franc border for the staggering price of 6 billion Swiss francs ($5.2 billion). It features a 27 kilometer (17 miles)-long circular tunnel, which is used to accelerate specific beams of particles at speeds clos...

26 January 2009
03:01 GMT

LHC on Hold Until June 2009

The latest statements from CERN officials shed more light on the Large Hadron Collider glitch that happened more than one month ago, on September 19, and indicate that the device will not be fully operable sooner than May or June of next year. It seems that the electrical failure caused irreversible damage to 29 of ...

21 October 2008
03:44 GMT

One in 10.000 Electrical Connections Delayed LHC Experiment Until Next May

As explained in a recent article, the Large Hadron Collider's latest malfunction was due to the leaking of a major quantity of helium from the superconducting solenoid magnet caused by the melting of an electrical connection because of the high voltage involved. Now, scientists found out that it happened as a r...

8 October 2008
09:01 GMT

The LHC Computing Grid Goes Live

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is ready to start the data challenge it has been built for: 15 million Gigabytes of data from the Large Hadron Collider will be analyzed and managed every year. Through the analysis of all this amount of data produced by the hundreds of millions of subatomic collisions expected inside...

6 October 2008
05:06 GMT

New Glitch, Longer Shutdown for LHC

Scientists from CERN stated on Saturday that the Large Hadron Collider may be shut down for at least 2 months, following the leak of a large quantity of helium – used in order to cool one of the proton-guiding magnets – into the collider tunnel. This is the last and the worst out of a series of unfortunat...

22 September 2008
04:07 GMT

New Glitches for the LHC

Only a week after it had been started, LHC, world's biggest particle smasher, had to be stopped on Wednesday because of an electrical fault, as CERN officially announces.  The recent failures of the LHC staff haven't even been forgotten yet, and a new one comes to increase the world's doubts relat...

19 September 2008
03:27 GMT

CERN's LCG, a 15-Petabyte Network

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is on its way to switch on the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in August. A super-high-bandwidth network will transfer data from the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) to 500 institutions around the world. About 5,000 s...

16 July 2008
04:34 GMT

How Would Antimatter Interact with Gravity?

The exact opposite of matter, antimatter, has been known to exist for decades now, although how it behaves in the presence of a gravitational field remains mostly unknown even though countless experiments have been conducted over the years. Each particle described in the Standard Model has its own antiparticle counte...

12 June 2008
06:52 GMT

LHC Build Completed. Still Much Work to be Done Though

With the fitting of the last major component of what is now the worlds largest particles accelerator, the build of Large Hadron Collider has been completed. All that remains now is to connect all the smaller components of the collider, in the hope that, by the end of this year, the preliminary experiments may begin. ...

5 March 2008
04:20 GMT


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