Restarting the LHC: A timeline
CERN has announced the restart schedule of its flagship science "project", the Large Hadron Collider, that will see the giant machine return online in early 2015. I'd written about the u…
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CERN has announced the restart schedule of its flagship science "project", the Large Hadron Collider, that will see the giant machine return online in early 2015. I'd written about the u…
For a boson to be the Higgs boson, it has to be intimately related to the physical process it was hypothesized in 1964 to help understand. With new results published on June 22, physicists from CERN,…
I'd linked to a preprint paper [PDF] on arXiv a couple days ago that had summarized the search for Supersymmetry (Susy) from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I'd written to on…
What do dark matter, Higgs bosons, the electron dipole moment, topological superconductors and quantum loops have in common? These are exotic entities that scientists have been using to solve some lon…
As scientists have progressed by leaps and bounds in making discoveries and confirming new ideas, they have been disappointed by how one of their favorite theories has been unable to post a positive status update in... years.…
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data.…
On July 4, 2012, when CERN announced that a particle that looked a lot like the Higgs boson had been spotted, the excitement was palpable. A multibillion-dollar search for an immensely tiny particle h…
The article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on March 7, 2013. -- Ever since CERN announced that it had spotted a Higgs boson-like particle on July 4, 2012, their flagship Large Hadron Colli…
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 10, 2012. -- After a successful three-year run that saw the discovery of a Higgs-boson-like particle in early 2012, the Large Hadron…
On December 10, 2012, I spoke to a bunch of physicists attending the Frontiers of High-energy Physics symposium at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. They included Rahul Sinha, G. Rajase…
A version of this article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on November 22, 2012. -- On November 12, at the first day of the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium at Kyoto, Japan, researchers pre…
Symmetry in nature is a sign of unperturbedness. It means nothing has interfered with a natural process, and that its effects at each step are simply scaled-up or scaled-down versions of each other. F…