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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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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 |
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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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Scientists at the Berkeley Lab will soon host the 13th workshop for Ion Beams in Biology and Medicine, the first such meeting to be held in the United States. Participants will discuss how to best use ion beams for treating cancer. Generally, healthcare experts tend to use various forms of radiation to treat this dis... |
19 October 2010 02:23 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is used to get an insight on the origins of the Universe and thanks to Dr Andreas Warburton of McGill’s Department of Physics, the first results from the analysis made at the LHC have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Researchers working at the LHC were tr... |
13 October 2010 03:30 GMT |
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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 10:46 GMT |
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Experts have finally been able to confirm the existence of cosmic particle accelerators in our galaxy, the Milky Way, after years of studies. Astrophysicists have known for a long time that some galaxies have portions that are capable of acting like giant particle accelerators, forcing various particles to move at ne... |
18 August 2010 04:39 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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Yesterday, the largest particle accelerator in the world managed to break the world record for producing the most energetic collisions ever achieved in such a machine. Granted, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) broke its own record that it set in December, and analysts say that it will continue to set the bar higher an... |
20 March 2010 06:11 GMT |
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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 |
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be brought back online next week. The largest physics experiment in the world was shut down for a few weeks during the holidays, and it is now abl... |
19 February 2010 17:01 GMT |
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Physicists in Japan have recently discovered an exotic form of carbon, one that features an extra-large halo nucleus. The central region of this atom is so large, that it even puts to shame the nuclei of heavier chemical elements such as copper and zinc. However, the new material does not exist in nature, as it was p... |
10 February 2010 15:21 GMT |
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When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was reopened, not two months ago, the high-energy physics community was excited that the largest scientific experiment on the planet was operational. Then came the milestone that everyone wanted to see, namely the fact that the machine became the most powerful particle accelerator... |
9 February 2010 11:05 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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Whilst conducting a new series of experiments involving the analysis of protons, scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) discovered that the companions protons had inside the atomic nuclei changed the positive particles' internal stru... |
19 November 2009 08:22 GMT |
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One of the newest areas of research in science today is laser-particle acceleration, a phenomenon that is believed to be of great promise for modern cancer radiotherapy methods. Various energy ranges need to be achieved, in order for the LPA to be effective against specific types of cancer. Just recently, experts at ... |
2 November 2009 16:51 GMT |
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The defunct Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, the Indian space probe that slammed into the Moon earlier this year because of a glitch, is still useful even from beyond the “grave.” The analysis of the data relayed back by the ESA-ISRO instrument SARA aboard the spacecraft has helped experts at the European Spa... |
15 October 2009 10:33 GMT |
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Uranium is the heaviest chemical element that can be found in nature. Over the years, scientists have been trying to discover other, heavier chemicals, and their efforts yielded plutonium in the 1940s, which went on to be used for weapons of mass destruction. Others have been discovered since, but our ability to synt... |
30 September 2009 05:01 GMT |
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Astronomers have finally discovered proof that confirms a long-held belief, namely that the shock waves generated by supernova explosions act like giant and extremely powerful particle accelerators. They came to this conclusion when they recently discovered that cosmic-ray particles, generated only when a massive sta... |
26 June 2009 02:44 GMT |
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The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft is the first probe sent to space whose mission is to accurately assess the boundary between our solar system and the surrounding outer space. Launched last October aboard a Pegasus-XL rocket, the craft has recently managed to discover a very peculiar phenomenon, cl... |
22 June 2009 03:17 GMT |
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After a very long battle with other candidates, Sweden has finally won the honor of hosting Europe's next neutron-science facility, the European Spallation Source. The science complex will be built around a linear particle accelerator, which will accelerate protons to high speeds, and then have them collide into... |
30 May 2009 02:33 GMT |
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Protons and neutrons are the basic constituents of the atomic nucleus. Understanding the interactions between the nucleons may provide some insight towards understanding the structure of the nucleus in light nuclei and neutron stars alike. An experiment carried out at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jeffers... |
30 May 2008 03:26 GMT |
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The Geminga pulsar was created about 340,000 years ago through the supernova explosion of a regular star, inside what is now called the Geminga supernova. It is well known that supernovae can provide with the required energy to accelerate energetic elementary particles into interstellar space, the so-called cosmic ra... |
8 March 2008 07:01 GMT |
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One of the most intriguing physical puzzles related to quantum physics and particle physics is a property of the protons, which all elementary particles share, called spin. The spin number, or quantum momentum, represents the particle's rotation around its own axis, but unlike the gyroscopic instruments and spin... |
18 December 2007 03:46 GMT |
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Earth, like many other bodies in space, is constantly being bombarded with streams of highly energetic sub-atomic particles of matter, coming from all directions. But, while some emissions of particles inside the atmosphere can be explained relatively easy, one type of cosmic rays remained, so far, mostly a mystery. ... |
4 December 2007 05:59 GMT |
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The forces that keep the protons and neutrons together in the nuclei are called strong nuclear forces and they are actually the strongest forces known. They act on small distances and are caused by a type of boson particles, of the hadron family also known as mesons. Mesons are composed of certain combinations of qua... |
17 November 2007 05:13 GMT |
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The newly discovered particle is part of the meson class of particles, has a non-zero electric charge, and is composed of four quarks. The announcement of the discovery of the new particle was made by researchers at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, and named the exotic partic... |
16 November 2007 02:59 GMT |
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Heavy atomic nuclei fuse together when they collide and fuse rather repulsing each other and flying apart. This is due to the motion of the internal particles that form the nucleus, as a result of an excited state of the nuclei. By following the models to describe the interactions that take place between two nuclei w... |
14 November 2007 08:57 GMT |
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This was what a team of Australian and Chinese scientists were trying to find: simple equations describing complex behaviors of atomic systems. This has been the central aim of physics for some time now, and this team says they've got observational evidence of a universal behavior.Peter Drummond and Xia-Ji Liu,... |
19 June 2007 11:48 GMT |
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A team of scientists working at an experiment called "Dzero" at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the discovery of a new heavy particle, called "zigh sub b" baryon, b.This new particle, also known as "cascade b," has a mass six times greater than that of a proton, is ele... |
14 June 2007 13:33 GMT |
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Every observed physical phenomenon can be explained by the four fundamental forces, and the strong interaction is the most complicated one, explaining how particles interact with one another. Fermions are particles with half-integer spin, divided into two groups: quarks and leptons. The quarks make up protons and ne... |
7 June 2007 15:21 GMT |
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