LHC
May 2013
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May 17, 2013signal to background: A banner day at the LHCAn artist honors the people and science of the CMS collaboration.
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May 14, 2013deconstruction: The cherry pie colliderWhat’s the next step in particle colliders? Symmetry takes a trip into the kitchen pantry to find out.
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May 7, 2013breaking: Smallest lab-made drop of liquid might cause strange particle behaviorA new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious ‘ridge effect.’
April 2013
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April 24, 2013breaking: Strange beauty particle decays boost matterPhysicists from the LHCb collaboration observe CP violation in the decay of a particle made of beauty and strange quarks.
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April 19, 2013signal to background: Q&A with Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs hunterSymmetry sits down with Fabiola Gianotti, who recently finished an eventful four years as spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
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April 16, 2013essay: NaturalnessWhen a scientific result fails the test of “naturalness,” it can point to new physics.
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April 16, 2013breaking: LHC passes ‘ping-pong ball’ testPhysicists send an ultra-clean, miniature ping-pong ball through part of the Large Hadron Collider beam pipe to test for hidden defects.
March 2013
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March 22, 2013signal to background: Great minds lauded at physics prize ceremonyA crowd full of stars from the field of particle physics—along with one from Hollywood—celebrated recent achievements.
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March 14, 2013breaking: One step closer to the Higgs bosonIn analyses of a fundamental characteristic of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle—the ways in which it decays—scientists see even more Higgs-like behavior.
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March 12, 2013breaking: LHCb studies particle tipping the matter-antimatter scalesThe LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists.
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March 1, 2013breaking: Passing the torch at ATLASUniversity of Birmingham physicist Dave Charlton takes over from Fabiola Gianotti as the new spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment.
February 2013
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February 13, 2013breaking: Achievement unlocked: 100 petabytes of dataExperiments at the Large Hadron Collider reached a milestone in data collection just before the accelerator’s last collisions for the next two years.
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February 7, 2013commentary: The power of basic scienceLong-term funding and support for science pays huge dividends from unexpected discoveries and applications—even when the potential impact is unclear at the time of discovery.
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February 4, 2013feature: What’s next for the Large Hadron Collider?Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider made a major discovery, but the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator is just getting started.
January 2013
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January 23, 2013breaking: Say hello to CERNScientists, engineers and other personalities from Europe’s largest physics lab begin a new series of “Hangout with CERN” video chats.
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January 21, 2013breaking: A bullet through an applePhysicists have begun the first full run of proton-lead collisions in the Large Hadron Collider to learn more about the beginning of our universe.
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January 2, 2013editorial: The discoveries continueThe discoveries of 2012 point the way to more exciting physics in 2013 and the decades beyond.
December 2012
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December 18, 2012feature: A model partnershipBucking the “ivory tower” stereotype, particle theorists dive into Large Hadron Collider experimental searches and come up with a new way to look at the data.
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December 11, 2012breaking: Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes Higgs huntersThe Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation will honor leaders at the Large Hadron Collider and its CMS and ATLAS experiments with a special $3 million prize.
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December 3, 2012breaking: Crystals show promise as particle pilots in LHCScientists are exploring using tiny crystals to remove rogue particles from the world's most powerful collider.
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