Ladies & Gentlemen, Protons & Neutrons, The Large Hadron Collider’s Accelerator Division has successfully collided, for the first time, two 4 TeV proton beams! Congratulations to all who made this possible. I can promise that everyone is looking forward to what may be discovered! Now enjoy some images courteous of @lhcstatus and @ATLASExperiment. [...]
An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers.
American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon-usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle. The researchers, from Princeton University, found that if nuclear fusion power plants are designed to accommodate appropriate safeguards, there is little [...]
The Majorana Demonstrator collaboration began moving their experiment into the Davis Campus on the 4850 Level this week.
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At the end of my last post, I left you all with the above plot (from this ATLAS conference note) without any real explanations. It’s actually quite a nice result, so I thought I might go through it in a little more detail today. So what does the plot show? Reading the axes, it shows [...]
Today, I’m going to be talking about some lesser known LHCb results. In fact, I’m going to discuss physics that some people thought LHCb couldn’t do, given the detector and software design. What am I going to be talking about? Electroweak physics. Yes, you read that right, not the heavy quark physics which LHCb was [...]
A free public lecture for all with an interest in nuclear fusion is taking place on Wednesday 4 April between 18.00 and 19.00 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Fusion is particularly relevant to an Oxfordshire audience because of the local Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), host to world-leading research programmes which seek to develop [...]
A new experiment clocked in neutrinos at the speed of light, and not faster, and scientists say that if the particle were faster, there would be no credible model to explain the phenomenon.
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So as many are finding out today the world of High Energy Physics (HEP) in the US is having its future further blurred with the announcement from the Office of Science directors announcement that the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) that “we cannot support the LBNE project as it is currently configured…(this decision) is a [...]
If attendees at the welcome reception for CERN’s first artist-in-residence learned one thing last night, it was that Julius von Bismarck is not afraid to disrupt others with his art.
The decommissioning of the Tevatron represented the end of an era, but it also is ushering in the next generation of physics by providing valuable equipment to other experiments.
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No animals were harmed in the writing of this blog post. One of the amusing tales in particle physics is the story of how the “penguin diagram” got its name. We won’t go into that here, instead, we’ll make use of some of the tools we’ve developed with Feynman diagrams to understand the physics behind [...]
Scientists on the ICARUS experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced today that they had found no evidence of superluminal neutrinos in a cross-check of earlier analysis from the OPERA experiment, also located at Gran Sasso.
We all knew that when the OPERA experiment announced preliminary evidence that neutrinos were traveling faster than the speed of light, the result was so hard to swallow that independent confirmation from other experiments would be necessary before too many people jumped on the bandwagon. In the meantime, a number of theoretical papers pointed out [...]
Retired CERN physicist Cristoforo Benvenuti learned a thing or two about building a better solar panel through his work on particle accelerators. The Geneva International Airport recently ordered 300.
Scientists recently proved possible a way to converse when radio waves won’t do. For the first time, physicists have successfully transmitted a message using neutrinos.
The Tevatron may be shut down for good, but – as evidenced by the catalogue of results presented at this week’s Rencontres de Moriond conference – the collider’s experiments still have plenty to say. In some areas, the Fermilab experiments still hold the advantage over those at the higher-powered Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
On March 7, Alan Alda, the actor best known for playing medic Hawkeye Pierce on yesteryear’s TV series M*A*S*H, visited the home of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.
CERN says that depending on how the equipment flaws swayed data reported last year, the ghostly subatomic particles may not be faster than the speed of light after all — or they may be even faster than previously reported.