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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.
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14 February 2012
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Sascha Mehlhase, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, showcases an impressive creation, made entirely out of LEGO. The structure is a 1:50 model of the ATLAS ((A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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28 December 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On September 22, researchers from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) neutrino experiment, in Italy, proposed that neutrinos can travel faster than light, and provided evidence to support their claims. Now, physicists take a hard look at the numbers.
Based at the Gran Sasso National L... |
3 October 2011
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Physicists in the United States were left without access to one of the most significant installations a few days ago, when the Tevatron particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, was closed down on September 30, 2011.
After serving the cause of modern physic... |
3 October 2011
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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.
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26 September 2011
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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
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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
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Scientists with the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) say that they managed to obtain the most accurate measurements on the weight of dark matter. These results refine existing figures down to an uncertainty level of on part per billion. The goal of scientists working with this instr... |
29 July 2011
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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
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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
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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
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Physicists have recently taken a great deal of interest in tiny-mass black holes, constructs that are many orders of magnitude smaller than their supermassive counterparts inhabiting the cores of large galaxies.
Studies focused on microscopic black holes hope to tease out more data about how the structures form a... |
9 July 2011
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the largest particle accelerator in the world was recently able to obtain temperatures that make the Sun look frigid. By colliding heavy lead ions head-on inside its detectors, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to achieve temperatures ... |
16 June 2011
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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
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A collaboration of physicists working at the world's largest particle accelerator announce that it is possible to trap antihydrogen atoms for nearly 17 minutes inside containment chambers. In total, the ALPHA Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to trap 309 atoms, some of which endured for as... |
6 June 2011
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In order to avoid the end of our Universe, we could learn how to slip into a parallel Universe, says known physicist Michio Kaku. Like many of his colleagues in the international scientific community, he believes that the Universe will end with a Big Freeze. This phenomenon will take place many billions of years from... |
1 June 2011
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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
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Researchers operating the experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say that the massive particle accelerator could reveal the existence of more dimensions this year or in 2012. They explain that studies conducted there might reveal where the 96 percent of the Universe is hiding.Despite the advanced technologies... |
16 May 2011
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Scientists announced the achievement of an important milestone in particle physics – the confinement of antimatter particles for prolonged periods of time. Experts were able to contain antihydrogen nuclei for no less than 1,000 seconds, which is the equivalent of 16.6 minutes. The previous record was less than ... |
2 May 2011
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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
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Investigators working at a particle detector based at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have recently published the conclusions of two new studies, which analyzes two different types of decay for a series of particles called “strange B” mesons. The data the team used for the researches were collected during... |
29 March 2011
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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
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Investigators working in Europe, at the world's largest particle accelerator, say that they are zeroing in on the source of dark matter, the mysterious stuff believed to make up 23 percent of the mass of the Universe, but which is apparently impossible to detect.
Physicists have had a much better year than o... |
27 January 2011
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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
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Physicists operating one of the three main particle detectors on the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) 27-kilometer tunnels announce that they were able to observe a state of matter that they believe permeated the Universe shortly after the Big Bang inflated everything into being.After the quantum fluctuation event ... |
6 January 2011
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Even if the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has barely began functioning properly for a couple of years, particle physicists are already thinking about the next generation of elementary particle splitters, and one particular concept appears to have captured their imagination – muon colliders. A muon is an elementar... |
4 January 2011
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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
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The ALICE detector on the Large Hadron Collider is helping theoretical physicists understand the world of elementary particles better than ever before. The first discoveries made by the detector have been published already, less than a month after the LHC changed the material it was working with. When the largest par... |
9 December 2010
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The Large Hadron Collider switched from using protons for its collisions to heavier lead ions recently, so that the events would produce more data than ever before. Some three weeks into the studies, this has already resulted in new insights of how the Universe looked like at the Big Bang.The goal of the LHC is to de... |
26 November 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Researchers at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, have recently received a new grant, for developing a web portal that would enable scientists working in the developing world to calculate landslide risks and the answer to other such complex riddles. The inspiration for this project came from the comput... |
16 August 2010
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At the International Conference on High Energy Physics - ICHEP in Paris, scientists from Fermilab announced yesterday that they might soon see the Higgs boson, as they have reduced the possible sizes of the particle.The so-called “God particle”'s existence was suggested by British theoretical physici... |
27 July 2010
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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
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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
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Dr Stephen West from the Department of Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London, launched an interesting theory about what is happening in the center of the sun. He believes that dark matter is somehow trapped at the sun's center and it is cooling down its core.A study carried out by Dr West analyzes the ... |
22 July 2010
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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
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A group of experts from the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, announces the development of a new, super-fast circuit designed specifically to augment the capabilities of one of the main particle detectors of the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is the largest physics experiment ever designed, and its goal... |
9 April 2010
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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
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