Some notes and updates
Four years of the Higgs boson, live-tweeting and timezones, new music, and quickly reviewing an Erikson book.…
Large Hadron Collider
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A universe out of sight
We've been able to find that the universe is expanding faster than we thought. The LHC has produced the most data on one day. Good news, right?…
Prospects for suspected new fundamental particle improve marginally
Although the data’s statistical significance isn’t as good as it would have to be for there to be a new ‘champagne bottle boson’ moment, it’s encouraging that the data itself isn’t vanishing.…
Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.…
New LHC data has more of the same but could something be in the offing?
Run 2 results from the LHC show that QCD is scale-invariant – in keeping with the Standard Model prediction.…
A new dawn for particle accelerators in the wake
A discussion of what updates in experimental particle physics are allowing accelerators to get smaller…
All goes well on LHC 2.0's first day back in action
It finally happened! The particle-smasher known as the Large Hadron Collider is back online after more than two years, during which its various components were upgraded to make it even meaner. A team…
The Large Hadron Collider is back online, ready to shift from the "what" of reality to "why"
The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acr…
A new LHC: 10 things to look out for
Through an extraordinary routine, the most powerful machine built by humankind is slowly but surely gearing up for its relaunch in March 2015. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), straddling the national…
Fabiola Gianotti, the first woman Director-General of CERN
The CERN Council has elected a new Director-General to succeed the incumbent Rolf-Dieter Heuer. Fabiola Gianotti, who served as the ATLAS collaboration's spokesperson from 2009 to 2013 - a period…
Why you should care about the mass of the top quark
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters on July 17, 2014, a team of American researchers reported the most precisely measured value yet of the mass of the top quark, the heaviest fundamental p…
New Higgs results show signs of SUSY
Two years ago, physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider first announced the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, setting the high-energy physics community atwitter. And it was only a coupl…