Today is scheduled as the end of proton physics at the Large Hadron Collider and the last few fills are circulating this morning. The integrated luminosity recorded this year will end at about 5.2/fb each for CMS and ATLAS, 1.1/fb for LHCb and 5/pb for ALICE. For the remainder of this year they will return to heavy [...]
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So if your days have been anything like mine in recent weeks anytime I talk to anyone with even a vague semblance of what particle physics is and that I am an experimentalist (in training of course) the question comes…. “So what about CERN proving Einstein wrong with those things going faster than light?” To [...]
At the moment, LHC is setting the pace of particle physics. OK, there are intriguing, unexpected things about neutrinos, which might or might not be real, hints for possible direct signs for Dark Matter, just to give two examples. But clearly, we are all watching the LHC, and with each additional collected inverse femtobarn, hopes [...]
ATLAS have released a conference note with new results for Higgs decays to ZZ and then two leptons and two neutrinos in the final states. The update uses 2.05/fb compared to 1.04/fb as first shown at the Europhysics conference in July. This is not the most exciting channel for discovery potential because it does not cover the [...]
Yesterday evening the BBC ran a documentary about the OPERA neutrino results. If you are in the UK and missed it you can watch repeats over the next few days or view it online here. Probably it will be available in other countries in some form soon. The program was presented by mathematician and author [...]
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2011 has been awarded to Daniel Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals. He has previously been awarded the Wolf prize in Physics. Quasicrystals are substances whose molecular structure is ordered in a form similar to crystals but is not periodic. Such materials can naturally form into geometrical solids just as crystals [...]
Just as the Nobel prize in physics is awarded for the discovery that points to dark energy, Europe’s space agency has announced that it will go ahead with it’s mission to map out the effects of dark energy on the distribution of galaxies over time. The mission christened EUCLID will be scheduled to launch in [...]