A new particle to break the Standard Model?
The Wire July 2, 2015 Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider particle-smasher have unearthed data from an experiment conducted in 2012 that shows signs of a new particle. If confirmed, its discovery…
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Signs of a slowdown
The way ahead for particle physics seems dully lit after CERN's fourth-of-July firecracker. The Higgs announcement got everyone in the physics community excited - and spurred a frenzied submission…
A dilemma of the auto-didact
If publishers could never imagine that there are people who could teach themselves particle physics, why conceive cheaper preliminary textbooks and ridiculously expensive advanced textbooks? Learning…