Tractor-pull competition a crowd pleaser
Monday, 10 June 2013, 11:04 am Press Release: University of Waikato 10 June 2013 Tractor-pull competition a crowd pleaser at Waikato physics day Loud engines, fumes and mud are what would usually be...
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(Source: The University of Waikato) 7 June 2013 Loud engines, fumes and mud are what would usually be expected from a tractor-pull competition. But not this time. Last week the University of Waikato...
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Scientists studying data from the Large Hadron Collider who announced the possible discovery of the ‘God particle’ — Higgs boson — now say they may have actually found not one, but two previously...
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Share CERN physicists find hint of Higgs boson CERN physicists find hint of Higgs boson The Large Hadron Collider detected events that could pin down the mass of the elusive subatomic particle, but...
View ArticleNearer, my god particle, to thee
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GENEVA — The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a two-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more...
View ArticleScience on Tap to feature Purdue physicist on what's next in the pursuit of...
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View Article"I Think We Have It": Is the Higgs Boson a Disappointment?
There are, it seems, two ways to look at the discovery of the Higgs particle-or, at least, of a Higgs-like particle-announced on Wednesday in Switzerland. One is as the crowning achievement of modern...
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Dr. Higgs, I presume? Related Times Topic: Higgs Boson RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times » Facebook A team of physicists gathered in a room at CERN last Friday to begin crunching new...
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View ArticleIs the 'God particle' an impostor? Scientists claim signal found in Large...
In a paper published this week, Ian Low, Joseph Lykken and Gabe Shaughnessy of Cornell have cast doubt on what exactly was detected within the Hadron Collider Signals detected from the Large Hadron...
View ArticleHiggs field gives mass, not the Higgs boson
Two competing armies of scientists are sifting debris from hundreds of trillions of proton collisions in CERN's Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, outside Geneva. They have both finally seen hints of what...
View ArticleScientists planning next particle super collider to meet at UT Arlington
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Not all that long ago, the Tevatron particle accelerator, about 30 miles west of Chicago, was the biggest, baddest atom smasher on the planet. It slammed protons and antiprotons together by the...
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After 40 years, more evidence is being reported Wednesday that the end of the biggest manhunt in the history of physics might finally be in sight. Physicists from the Fermi National Accelerator...
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Get the faculty leaders of Iowa State's work with the ATLAS detector in a conference room and it's clear they're proud of the research described in that paper. After all, few expected a Higgs-like...
View ArticleAtom smasher hits highest energy levels yet
The world's largest particle accelerator has ramped up particles to higher energies than ever before, scientists announced Monday. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 17-mile-long (27 kilometer)...
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The world's largest particle accelerator has ramped up particles to higher energies than ever before, scientists announced Monday (March 19). The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 17-mile-long (27...
View ArticleAtom smasher collides particles at record energies
A simulation of a particle collision inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. When two protons collide inside the machine, they create an...
View ArticleHiggs fever: Overflow crowd hears about new particle (w/ Video)
If not for the Higgs boson, our universe wouldnt be at all what it is today, Beate Heinemann told the crowd, which ranged from teenagers to retirees. The electron would be massless, we wouldnt...
View ArticlePitt to Host Public Lecture Celebrating Nobel-Lauded Discovery of Higgs...
(Source: University of Pittsburgh) Pitt physicists will explain the science and their roles in the discovery at Oct. 30 event PITTSBURGH-The 2012 discovery of the subatomic particle known as the Higgs...
View ArticleHiggs, the man who saw the ‘God Particle’, gets Nobel
Bengaluru: Professor Rohini Godbole, a particle physicist at the Center for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, who has been tasked with working on the International Linear Collider,...
View Article'God particle' hints possibly found
The new data come from two different experiments. The detector for one of them, ATLAS, which involves Canadian scientists, is shown above. The other experiment is called CMS. (ATLAS/CERN) Hints of the...
View ArticleIndian participation in LHC going well: Scientist
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View ArticleScientists confident they’ve found Higgs boson ‘God particle’
(CNN) — Just in time for Albert Einstein’s birthday Thursday, scientists delivered exciting news about how the universe works. Last summer, physicists announced that they had identified a particle with...
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This track is an example of simulated data modelled for the ATLAS detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The Higgs boson is produced in the collision of two protons and quickly decays...
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