LHC confirms we’ve definitely discovered the Higgs boson, and (sadly) it behaves exactly as the Standard Model predicts June 24, 2014 at 5:19 am If you were hoping for the Higgs boson to be the weird particle that led us towards the weird and wonderful nether regions of science beyond the Standard Model — supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy — then sadly this is not the particle you were looking for. Part of the LHCb detector Large Hadron Collider discovers a new type of matter: Exotic hadrons April 9, 2014 at 11:32 am Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have discovered, with “overwhelming” certainty, the existence of a new class of subatomic particles, exotic hadrons. The LHCs CMS detector Searching for supersymmetry: Work begins on Large Hadron Collider’s 60-mile-long successor February 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm The Higgs boson machine — CERN’s Large Hadron Collider — is barely five years old, and yet the international group of physicists is already planning its successor. Dubbed the Very Large Hadron Collider (points for creativity), the new collider will be around 60 miles long (four times longer than the LHC), and smash protons together with a collision energy of 100 teraelectronvolts (14 times the LHC’s current energy). While the LHC’s discovery of the Higgs boson was a watershed moment, its existence poses more questions than it answers — and those answers probably can’t be answered by the LHC. CERN CERN creates and studies antihydrogen – antimatter – in the lab for the first time January 22, 2014 at 12:42 pm New techniques developed at CERN could make it possible to stud whole atoms of antimatter and learn why there is something in the universe instead of nothing. Peter Higgs (who proposed the Higgs boson), hanging out at LHCs CMS detector Higgs boson scientists win the Nobel Prize for Physics October 8, 2013 at 10:30 am Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist after which the Higgs boson is named, has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics. Higgs shares the prize with Francois Englert, another theoretical physicist who reached similar conclusions about the Higgs boson around the same time, in the mid-’60s. Higgs and Englert will share a prize fund of around $1 million, while CERN — which discovered the Higgs boson last year — will receive nothing. fermilab rings Proposed Neutrino Factory to answer one of the most fundamental questions of science June 18, 2013 at 8:31 am A European commission has recommended building the enormous, expensive Neutrino Factory to help answer one of the most fundamental questions in all of science. International Linear Collider, somewhere in the Japanese mountains New 19-mile-long International Linear Collider will investigate the Higgs boson, dark energy, multiple dimensions June 13, 2013 at 6:37 am The new 31-kilometer (19.2 mi) International Linear Collider (ILC) is finally ready for construction, according to CERN and the Linear Collider Collaboration. The ILC will initially augment the LHC’s attempt to identify and characterize the Higgs boson, but in the future it could investigate new areas such as supersymmetry, dark matter and energy, and superstring theory, significantly advancing our knowledge of the universe. Mosaic 1.0, running on a System 7.1 Mac The World Wide Web is 20 years old today April 30, 2013 at 7:08 am 20 years ago today, on April 30 1993, CERN contributed the technologies underpinning the World Wide Web to the royalty-free public domain. These simple technologies — the humble URL, HTTP, and HTML — were developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in the early ’90s, but it wasn’t until they were open-sourced that the WWW actually became the web. If CERN had decided otherwise, much of what you consider to be the internet wouldn’t exist, including Facebook, Steam, and the humble website that you’re reading right now. The LHCs CMS detector CERN begins LHC upgrade, to hopefully ‘change our understanding of the universe’ April 2, 2013 at 1:45 pm Following the discovery of what appears to be the Higgs boson, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has been shut down so that it can be upgraded. If all goes the plan, the upgrades will almost double the power of the LHC, enabling the particle accelerator to carry out the second part of its primary mission: proving or disproving the existence of supersymmetry. Peter Higgs (who proposed the Higgs boson), hanging out at LHCs CMS detector CERN: We have found a Higgs boson, but not necessarily the Higgs boson March 14, 2013 at 3:01 pm Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have confirmed that the Higgs-like particle that they discovered on July 4 last year is a Higgs boson. Not the Higgs boson, but a Higgs boson — a subtle but important difference.
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