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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 |
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In a paper published on December 22 in the online journal arXiv, investigators with the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announce the discovery of a particle that has never been observed before.
Scientists from the Lancaster University and the University of Birmingham w... |
23 December 2011
05:44 GMT |
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When even the leader of the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider – who is in charge of searching for the Higgs boson – says that the name God's particle is inappropriate, he reflects a widely-accepted point of view among physicists – that the name needs to be changed.
Known popularly a... |
15 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Investigators from Switzerland explain that the potential discovery of the Higgs boson would help astronomers and astrophysicists gain a better understanding of how the Universe expands. The finding would also enable scientists to explain how the Cosmos expanded during its earliest days.
Under the guises of the St... |
26 September 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Thanks to unyielding efforts made by scientists operating two experiments on the world's most powerful particle accelerator, physicists are now able to say with a high degree of certainty that the prospective mass range in which the Higgs boson may be hiding is constantly shrinking.According to the scientists, t... |
23 August 2011
16:01 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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According to officials at the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Tevatron particle accelerator, the most famous in the United States, will be closed down this September. The announcement was made on January 10.Physicists at the DOE Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, had hoped to u... |
20 January 2011
08:17 GMT |
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A newly-proposed plan calls for the Large Hadron Collider to continue its search for the Higgs boson by the end of 2012, and not 2011 as originally scheduled. In other words, physicists operating the accelerator and its detectors want to keep on searching for the elementary particle for another year.
The Higgs is ... |
11 December 2010
04:05 GMT |
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The United States will most likely enjoy the benefits of housing the second-most powerful particle accelerator in the world for another three years, say a group of physicists that recently made the recommendation. The panel was to decide whether to propose an extension to the Tevatron program, or if they should recom... |
28 October 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the largest particle accelerator in the world is currently smashing together unprecedented numbers of atoms. The state-of-the-art facility features the most powerful machine of this sort ever constructed, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), whic... |
21 October 2010
03:58 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Officials at CERN, the organization in charge of operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), announced recently that they had decided on a new start date for science programs at the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The new date was set for Tuesday, March 30. At that time, officials say that... |
23 March 2010
11:08 GMT |
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Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world, have recently decided on the schedule they will follow for the upcoming years. They say that they will continue to run the massive scientific experiment at a low power level through 2011, after which time they will shu... |
3 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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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 |
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This Monday marked an historic event. After one year in repairs, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world, has finally began colliding beams of protons together, in its quest for the elusive Higgs boson. This is the elementary particle that, if found, will finally confirm the Sta... |
25 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the group that manages the Large Hadron Collider, announced that the first proton beams had already been injected in the massive particle accelerator, and that they had completed thousands of spins in its tunnels. The 27-kilometer-long facility saw ... |
21 November 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are undoubtedly among some of the luckiest investigators on the planet, having been given the chance to contribute to the most advanced research experiments in the history of humankind. But, even though the particle accelerator has yet to produce concrete result... |
20 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Next to the International Space Station (ISS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is arguably the most complex and amazing human scientific project ever constructed. Its main goal is to recreate the conditions that existed just a few fractions of a second after the beginning of the Universe, immediately after the event ... |
15 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undoubtedly the most ambitious science project ever undertaken by people. Its purpose is to look directly at the conditions that led to the formation of everything around us, and provide a firm confirmation for the Standard Model as well. But, other than the unfounded talk of black ... |
12 November 2009
09:11 GMT |
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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 |
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Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was under construction, the Batavia, Illinois-based Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) began to work extra-hard on finding the elusive Higgs Boson. This elementary particle would complete and firmly prove the Standard Model in physics, which now features two cl... |
31 August 2009
05:27 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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At this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago, swords have been drawn. Through the voices of Director Pier Oddone, and colleague Dr. Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab announced that it could beat the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Larg... |
17 February 2009
07:45 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider, the largest high-energy physics facility in the world, has been under constant criticism for its potential effects on the planet, with doom sayers arguing that the colliding two beams of particles at 99.99 percent the speed of light, and at temperatures reaching trillions of degrees, could ... |
22 January 2009
04:23 GMT |
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A TV documentary film directed by Clayton Brown and Monica Ross will be aired today on PBS, presenting the lives of the scientists from the American Fermilab laboratory in Illinois. "The Atom Smashers," as the saga movie is called, tries to reveal the real, human aspects behind the "talking heads" that are usually sh... |
25 November 2008
04:36 GMT |
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10:36 am, today. The main computer screen in one of the LHC surveillance rooms displays 2 flashing dots, indicating that the last test has been successfully completed. Humankind still exists. Perhaps the most believable story about the apocalypse is the most recent one, linked to the power-up of the LHC (which w... |
10 September 2008
11:35 GMT |
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As the time remaining until the first true LHC experiment passes at a snail’s pace, the physicists in charge with the whole process are threatened to be killed by people who, in turn, fear for their lives. There's little common knowledge regarding the LHC and physics in general. People generally thin... |
8 September 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Researchers of the Fermilab announced recently that they have been able to produce and observe one of the rarest diboson processes, the ZZ pair, during proton-antiproton collisions inside the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. The discovery bears significant scientific relevance, since the... |
31 July 2008
08:03 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider is rapidly approaching completion and should become operational by the end of the year. It will become the biggest particle collider ever built, probably powerful enough to create even microscopic black holes. It has been suggested on a number of occasions, despite CERN's reassurance, t... |
1 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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"Higgs Boson" or the "God Particle", was predicted almost four decades ago by British physicist Peter Higgs as a mean to explain how fundamental particles gain mass in the space-time continuum. Higgs believes that it will be found by CERNs Large Hadron Collider, expected to become operational by the end of this year.... |
8 April 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Quantum physicists think they know the answer. Probabilistic calculations reveal than the data provided by previous experiments has been miscalculated and that the Higgs boson has in fact been discovered. Weird! The Higgs boson is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model that hasn't been discovered yet.... |
24 January 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Currently under construction, the Large Hadron Collider or LHC for short, is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), near Geneva in Switzerland. It is scheduled to begin operation in May 2008 and is expected to become the world's largest and highest energ... |
1 November 2007
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