Peer-reviewed physics at the speed of light
Updated: 2010-04-30 12:01:34
In the April issue of symmetry, Daisy Yuhas writes about the long path from the first hint of a discovery at the Large Hadron Collider to the published paper that makes the claim official. Yet in the four weeks since the LHC's first collision, four papers have already been published and 15 more are in the pipeline. In this interview with Sergio Bertolucci, the head of research and computing at CERN, Dan Drollette of iSGTW, International Science Grid This Week, sorts things out.
In this issue we outline a desperate shortage of accelerator scientists; walk you through the process of making a discovery at the Large Hadron Collider; and debut an original science-fiction story written especially for SLAC. 
The G-Zero experiment that measures the amount of strange quark contributions to the proton has found that there is a lot less strangeness than previous theories and experiments indicated.
The European MYRRHA is an experimental facility aimed to demonstrate the technical feasibility of nuclear waste transmutation in an accelerator-driven system. The main part of the accelerator will consist in a series of superconducting cavities.
We’re constantly being peppered by showers of debris from cosmic rays colliding with atoms in the atmosphere. Cosmic rays aren’t actually rays, of course, they’re particles; ninety percent are protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, and most of the rest are heavier nuclei like iron. Some originate from our own sun but most come from farther off, from the Milky Way or beyond.
Pockets of dark matter litter roughly 25 percent of the universe like patches of static you hit while surfing the radio dial: definitely there but of unclear origin.
Through a process of elimination, Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics collaborators say they have found a way to use sound to tune in dark matter passing through [...]
Two new and independent studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before. These results show Einstein's theory is still the best game in town.
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