CERN chief upbeat on funding for new particle collider

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of ...

To make sense of cosmic rays, CERN team tracks a fragile nucleus

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...
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This 17-mile machine might be powerful enough to spawn a black hole

Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...
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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
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This 17-mile-long machine could create a black hole

Today we’re diving into the Large Hadron Collider - the 17-mile underground machine designed to slam protons together at near light speed and expose the universe’s smallest secrets. It’s a ...
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At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider manages to turn lead into gold and revives alchemy as a byproduct of modern physics

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...
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World’s most powerful particle collider reveals nature of quark soup’s radial expansion

The new results from ATLAS has a different geometric origin from the ‘elliptic’ flow studied previously, and it is sensitive ...

What Is the Higgs Boson Particle, and Why Is It So Important?

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

ATLAS confirms collective nature of quark soup's radial expansion

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...
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Imagining a black hole opening at CERN

Let's roll back a few days. This is CERN, the Nuclear Research laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland. It ...