LHC results
August 2012
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August 7, 2012breaking: Video: In the shadow of the HiggsIf you're still unsure what all the "Higgsteria" was about, we have a new video for you.
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August 1, 2012breaking: Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publicationsThe CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider released papers Tuesday confirming their earlier simultaneous, independent discovery of a particle that resembles the Standard Model Higgs boson.
July 2012
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July 24, 2012breaking: A little light (or rather, massive) Higgs musicThanks to a few creative scientists, the recent discovery of a Higgs-like particle is music to more than just particle physicists’ ears.
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July 9, 2012breaking: The statistics of scientific discoveryIn this video, Fermilab physicist explains how figuring out whether a discovery is real or just a matter of luck is similar to judging the fairness of a pair of dice. It all comes down to statistics.
June 2012
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June 29, 2012breaking: What does it take to claim discovery of the Higgs?If the Higgs exists, why has discovering it taken so long – and why, if no definitive discovery is announced next week, might it continue to take even longer?
April 2012
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April 27, 2012breaking: CMS collaboration discovers its first new particleMembers of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.
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April 9, 2012breaking: Tevatron experiment confirms LHC discovery of Chi-b (P3) particleThe DZero experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider has confirmed the discovery of a new particle from an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
March 2012
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March 7, 2012breaking: Tevatron experiments see possible signs of the Higgs boson in favored regionTevatron physicists told attendees of the Rencontres de Moriond conference this morning that they had found excesses in their data suggestive of a Higgs with a mass between 115-135 gigaelectronvolts. A few months ago, LHC physicists announced similar bumps indicating a Higgs with a mass of between 124-126 GeV.
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March 5, 2012breaking: LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physicsThe LHCb collaboration set the Standard Model on its surest footing yet in results announced at the Rencontres de Moriond conference today.
December 2011
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December 13, 2011breaking: Possible signs of the Higgs remain in latest analysesTwo experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced in a seminar held at CERN today. However, the ATLAS and CMS experiments see modest excesses in their data that could soon uncover the famous missing piece of the physics puzzle.
November 2011
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November 18, 2011breaking: Favored Higgs hiding spot remains after most complete search yetThe CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have backed the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, into a corner with their first combined Higgs search result.
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November 14, 2011breaking: LHCb uses charm to find asymmetryScientists from the LHCb collaboration at CERN recently saw curious possible evidence of this asymmetry: The difference between the decay rates of certain particles in their detector, D and anti-D charm mesons, was higher than expected.
July 2011
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July 26, 2011breaking: More than one way to search for SUSYImage courtesy of timlewisnm on Flickr via a Creative Commons license
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July 22, 2011breaking: Higgs buzz at summer physics conferencePhysicists could be on their way to discovering the Higgs boson, if it exists, by next year. Scientists in two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider pleasantly surprised attendees at the European Physical Society conference this afternoon by both showing small hints of what could be the prized particle in the same area. “This is what we expect to find on the road to the Higgs,” said Gigi Rolandi, physics coordinator for the CMS experiment.
June 2011
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June 17, 2011breaking: LHC experiments reach record data milestoneAs of this week, the Large Hadron Collider has delivered 1 inverse femtobarn of integrated luminosity to ATLAS and CMS, two of the four experimental stations housed along the ring. This means the detectors will have gathered data from about 70 trillion proton-proton collisions. For comparison, the experiments collected just 45 inverse picobarns in all of 2010; 1 inverse femtobarn is equal to one thousand inverse picobarns.
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June 15, 2011breaking: String theory may hold answers about quark-gluon plasmaRecreating the conditions present just after the Big Bang has given experimentalists a glimpse into how the universe formed. Now, scientists have begun to see striking similarities between the properties of the early universe and a theory that aims to unite gravity with quantum mechanics, a long-standing goal for physicists.
May 2011
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May 23, 2011breaking: LHC experiments dive into the quark gluon plasmaThis week at Quark Matter 2011, scientists from LHC are sharing the results of their experiments, which have elevated studies of the QGP to a whole new energy level. Their observations of how particles react to the plasma have given them new hints as to its temperature and the strength of its influence.
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May 3, 2011breaking: Keep it simple, SUSYExperimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider recently proved effective a simple, new method of looking for evidence of supersymmetry. The method addresses a challenge particle physicists often face in looking for new particles and processes: They can manifest themselves in a multitude of ways.
March 2011
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March 30, 2011breaking: Rare particle decays could indicate presence of new physicsPhysicists at the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported the first observations of a new way that particles called Bs mesons decay into other particles. Studying this particular decay could provide clues as to why the universe is made up of matter rather than antimatter.
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March 16, 2011breaking: LHC set to gain major ground in Higgs searchLHC experiments’ search for the Higgs will cover an area 27 times as large as that examined by Tevatron experiments by the end of this year, according to projections. And that’s if the LHC meets just minimum expectations for data collection.
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