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Leonardo da Vinci may have been a forward-thinking engineer, but what if he had gotten into the particle physics game? CERN researcher Dr. Sergio Cittolin brought out his (not so) inner Renaissance Man with these illustrations of the Large Hadron Collider ...  

Physicist depicts Large Hadron Collider in da Vinci-style sketchesThe VergeThese drawings are the work of Dr. Sergio Cittolin, a research physicist who's been at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for more than 30 years. A lifelong doodler, Cittolin is in charge of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment ...What if Leonardo da Vinci designed the Large Hadron Collider?io9all 2 news articles »  

You may already know about Leonardo da Vinci’s submarine design, or his sketches for helicopters, parachutes and airplanes. But you not have seen his plan for a compact muon solenoid detector, almost identical to the one now used by CERN in its Large Hadron Collider. That, at least, is the idea behind this drawing by [...]  

Cern: Where the Big Bang meets big dataTechRepublic (blog)By Nick Heath Researchers at Cern, the Swiss nuclear physics lab which is home to the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aren't just searching for the origins of the universe - they're also working on the future of ...  

New "Beauty Baryon" Particle Discovered at Large Hadron Collider. It's just the second new particle to be discovered at the atom smasher where physicists also seek the elusive Higgs boson particle. By Clara Moskowitz and ...  

Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci "Sergio Cittolin is first and foremost a physicist in search of answers to the mysteries of the universe. Yet he also has an artistic bent, and his talent for drawing has woven itself nicely into his 30 years of work at CERN. The result is a collection of Leonardo da Vinci-style illustrations that brighten CERN hallways, a book, and the covers of a number of technical...  

Researchers hunting for the elusive Higgs Boson particle are going to have to wade through an unprecedented volume of particle collision data now that the Large Hadron Collider powered up to a higher level....  

After a short winter break, physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the French-Swiss border have set a new world record by successfully smashing two 4 teraelectronvolt (TeV) proton beams together producing a total of 8 TeVs, as they continue to search for the elusive Higgs boson “God particle.” Following the record-breaking smashup yesterday (April 5 at 12:38 a.m.), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN...  

How does the Large Hadron Collider deal with the petabytes of data it generates? This question is posed on behalf of many Sixty Symbols viewers who asked about it.  

Maybe that's not an unreasonable answer. The beam of the huge collider, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, measures less than 1 millimeter in diameter--but is made up of protons racing at 99.9 percent the speed of light ...  

Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator have discovered their first brand-new baryon, a particle consisting of three quarks. read more  

It has not discovered the Higgs Boson -- not yet, anyway -- but the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator has revealed a never-before-discovered particle comprised of three quarks. The discovery, which was announced Friday by Symmetry Magazine, was made by University of Zurich physicists and was based on data gathered in the CMS detector at the Geneva, Switzerland-based facility, which is overseen by the European Organization for...  

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 02, 2012 Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC. The baryon known as Xi_b^* confirms fundamental assumptions of physics regarding the binding of quarks. In particle physics, the baryon family refers to par  

Cloud Computing to Join the Search for the God Particle Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle.  

The company's software is used to control data integration demands from the Aston Martin assembly line to the Large Hadron Collider. Essentially, this technology is an open-source, standards-based messaging platform that can be deployed in any development ...  

On a vast scale, that's broadly what CERN's Large Hadron Collider does -- smashing particles together at a whisker short of the speed of light in order to minutely document the results. Running the supercooled magnets and four gigantic detection arrays -- each of which weighs in at tens of thousands of tons -- in place around the nearly 17-mile-long underground tunnel is, unsurprisingly, a fiendishly complex task.According to Ehm, CERN began...  

"With Coverity's unique ability to offer quick detection of complex, uncommon and hard-to-detect errors, software developers are further motivated to find and fix errors early in the software development cycle. This helps CERN achieve better governance of ...  

New submitter ph4cr writes with news that a new particle has been discovered at CERN that confirms theoretical predictions. A pre-print of the academic paper is available at the arXiv (PDF). From the article: "Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC...  

May 29th is Peter Higgs birthday. Higgs is a British physicist who proposed a particle that was responsible for the origin of mass called the Higgs boson. This particle is ...Read Full Post  

#imagecache So why exactly did CERN spend billions and billions of dollars building the Large Hadron Collider when Ikea sells a perfectly good alternative, the Hädrönn Cjölidder, for considerably less cash? Sure, its Compact Muon Solenoid is made from ugly particle board, but think of the money you'll save by building it yourself. More »  

Thar she blows! And him! Oh, and her too? Here’s a picture story that really cheered us up yesterday. We were all feeling a bit, sort of, you know … Monday … and this arrived just in time. It’s a simply brilliant work of modern art from the photographer Tadao Cern, and you’ll find it in all it’s glory at his website, unsurprisingly called tadaocern.com. But that’s possibly the only thing that’s...  

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you stuck your hand in the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator currently looking for the so-called "God Particle"? Well, even if you haven't, a Sixty Symbols reader did and the site's...  

Mobile phone operator Softbank has started selling smartphones with radiation detectors.Apparently people are so concerned that radiation is spreading out along Japan's eastern coast more than a year after the Fukushima crisis that they need re-a  

So why exactly did CERN spend billions and billions of dollars building the Large Hadron Collider when Ikea sells a perfectly good alternative, the Hädrönn Cjölidder, for considerably less cash? Sure, its Compact Muon Solenoid is made from ugly particle board, but think of the money you’ll save by building it yourself. Actually, this amusing poster was spotted at the Lawrence ...  

Mobile phone operator Softbank Corp said on Tuesday it would soon begin selling smartphones with radiation detectors, tapping into concerns that atomic hotspots remain along Japan's eastern coast more than a year after the Fukushima crisis. Parts of ...  

Mobile phone operator Softbank Corp said on Tuesday it would soon begin selling smartphones with radiation detectors, tapping into concerns that atomic hotspots remain along Japan's eastern coast more than a year after the Fukushima crisis.  

In just two weeks of operation in "stable beams" mode, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has aready reached 1380 proton bunches per beam, the maximum value set for this year. The number of bunches was increased in steps from 624 to then 840 bunches last week, and now from 1092 to 1380.  

Siliconrepublic.comCERN expert to speak to engineers in BelfastSiliconrepublic.comMyers has been responsible for current and future projects and for the efficient exploitation of the existing accelerator facilities, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, since 2009. It was in 1972 that Myers embarked on his career with ...  

The world's largest particle collider notched up a new record on Thursday as it escalated its quest to find fundamental matter and explore the origins of the Universe, CERN said. At 00:38 am Thursday (2238 GMT Wednesday), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC ...  

Mike Stoor of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, weighs a gnome in the Control Room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on April 5, 2012. A German precision scale maker sends the gnome to different scientific institutions to demonstrate that, due to gravity and the Earth not being a perfect sphere, [...]  

Apr 10, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Yandex (YNDX), Russias leading search engine, has announced the launch of a search tool service for retrieving Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Events at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research ...  

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazineThe world's largest particle accelerator is roaring along at an unprecedented pace, delivering torrents of data to its physicist handlers. [More]  

A never-before-seen subatomic particle has popped into existence inside the world's largest atom smasher, bringing physicists a step closer to unraveling the mystery of how matter is put together in the universe. [More]  

And no, it didn't create a mini-black hole that swallowed the Earth ... To do so, CERN researchers are trying to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang with bigger particle collisions that produce more data to look through. The boson-hunters at CERN ...  

This is something we've all thought about doing from time to time, but you should not do it, according to scientists. "Your whole body would be irradiated, you’d die pretty quickly." Read more posts by Dan Amira Filed Under: it's science ,large hadron collider  

Dr. Sergio Cittolin has worked at CERN for the past 30 years as a research physicist. He has also made several drawings of the Large Hadron Collider in the style of Leonardo da Vinci. Symmetry magazine profiled Cittolin a few years ago. As a naturalist, da Vinci probed, prodded, and tested his way to a deeper understanding of how organisms work and why, often dissecting his object of study with this aim. "I thought, why not present the...  

Adlène Hicheur is a 34 year-old 'French-Algerian' physicist. He was working on the world's largest atom smasher: the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research near Geneva. A French court sentenced the Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in prison today for his role in plotting terrorism with al-Qa'ida. Of course none of the news reports refer to the motive or ideology that inspired this nuclear physicist...  

On April 27th, it was announced by the Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration that the neutral Xi_b baryon has been spotted at the Large Hadron Collider in an excited state.Contributor: Lily AndersonPublished: May 03, 2012  

One of my favorite parts about going on tours of laboratories are the signs and jokes that scientists post on office doors and lab walls. This gem comes from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The obvious question: How do you transport an infinite number of protons home from IKEA? Does that fit on the little [...]  

French-Algerian physicist Adlène Hicheur, 35, was today sentenced by a French court to five years in prison for “criminal association with the intent to prepare terrorist acts.” The court ruled that the Large Hadron Collider researcher's email exchange in 2009 with a presumed member of Al Qaeda "constituted a criminal act." From the New York [...]  

Since early April the Large Hadron Collider has been back up and running in the hope of discovering the answers to some of science’s most elusive questions. So what's it looking for, asks Dylan Barber? Read more on the blog...  

Scientists hunting the Higgs boson have reactivated the Large Hadron Collider, waking the slumbering proton smasher from its winter slumber, and coaxing it to faster speeds than ever before. Running in 2011 at 3.5 TeV (teraelectronvolts) in each direction – for a total collision speed of 7 TeV – the new running speed is 8 Read The Full Story  

Ever wonder what really happens inside the Large Hadron Collider? This amusing animation from Oxford Sparks offers a clue, although the audio too realistically recreates the frustration of trying to understand a muffled public address system.  

Researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider have revealed the discovery of a new subatomic particle – one that confirms scientific assumptions about how quarks bind together, foundational to the shaping of matter, according to MSNBC.  

Just days after restarting from a winter shutdown, researchers at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), report that stable beams of protons were smashed at four observation positions, with a combined energy of 8 trillion electron volts (TeV), earning a new world record, blowing away the previous record of 7 TeV -- a record set by the LHC in 2010.  

Onislam.netHiggs yay or nay? CERN kicks off 2012 harder than everExplorersWeb(Tina Sjogren) When the Large Hadron Collider was fired up in 2008 the hunt was on for the sub-atomic particle Higgs boson ("God particle") which would determine the future of particle physics. Meanwhile, lawsuits were put together against the particle ...CERN Revs Up Hopes for Smashing Year for PhysicsOnislam.netIs CERN Closer to Finding the "Higgs"?--This Week's 8...  

Buttons glow in the control room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva on April 5, 2012. At 0:38 CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams" as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC's four interaction points. The [...]  

No, really, what would happen? Also, a bunch of "rusty square buildings, made out of sheet metal in the 1950s".Those Sixty Symbols people have been to CERN asking the big question: "What would happen if you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider?" Their previous answers featured in Health and Safety in Particle Physics II, as did my quick guess. Here's what they got this time:They get some pretty credible answers. And I reckon my guess...  

This is the Xi_b^*0 – which is composed of three quarks: astrange quark, a beauty quark, and either an up or down quark. What makes this finding unique is that this is the first ‘beauty’ baryon – a baryon comprised with a beauty quark ...  

The European nuclear research agency CERN collided two high-power proton beams in the early hours of Thursday morning, marking the beginning of this year's Large Hadron Collider physics data ...  

Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator that is being used to find the elusive "God particle" generates about 40Terabytes (1 TB=103GB) of data per day from its four main detectors. Assuming an average size of 1GB for a movie, that amounts to a data stream worth 40000 movies(!) in a day. This massive amount of data is distributed to selected institutions across the world for further research. Thus, in one year, the...  

European scientists said Friday they had detected a subatomic particle that sheds light on one of the basic forces of nature which determines the structure of matter  

CERN yesterday ramped the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) up to record levels, ahcieving a collision energy of 8 TeV. read more  

The Large Hadron Collider is the most expensive and complex scientific experiment ever built. This video shows how the contraption accelerates and slams together subatomic particles and what comes out of the collision. [More]  

Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator have discovered their first brand-new baryon, a particle consisting of three quarks. There are six quarks altogether, which differ in their masses and charges. The two lightest – the so-called ‘up’ and ‘down’ quarks – form protons and neutrons. All baryons that are composed of the [...]  

As a physicist for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, Andrei Golutvin spends his days smashing subatomic particles into one another at the Large Hadron Collider, a 16.8-mile ...  

By Robert Evans, Reuters Scientists came closer than ever to witnessing "Big Bang"-style conditions on Thursday after revving up the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research centre to smash sub-atomic particles together faster and harder than ever before.  

The Universe contains much better particle accelerators than anything we humans can contrive. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is capable of sending individual protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts (7 TeV, or 7×1012 eV), cosmic ray protons can exceed 1018 eV—a million times more energetic. Achieving this acceleration requires a highly energetic source. The leading candidates are gamma ray...  

is with a tour group - which includes Grandma minding her knitting -- but wanders off for a door marked "Team Proton 1." Mr. Green follows the team for unknown reasons that he comes to regret. "Welcome aboard the Large Hadron Collider," says the PA speaker.  

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have been given a tough deadline to find the God Particle, reports Nick Collins from Geneva.Particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. The machine will undergo a final upgrade at the end of this year and will then start looking for the secrets of 'dark matter’ By Nick CollinsHere under the rolling hills on the French-Swiss border near Geneva, the biggest machine ever built is preparing for a new...  

The prime target for the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider is discovery and study of the Higgs boson — but what the heck is the Higgs, and what's it supposed to do? PHD Comics' Jorge Cham explains the quest in an animated cartoon that draws upon the expertise of Daniel Whit …  

A bug in the software used to model the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider could have been covering up evidence for extra space time dimensions.Complex software models are used to understand the results from the Large Hadron Collider. These include simulations of the particle physics in the proton-proton collisions, as well as of the material and geometry of the detectors and the strength of the various magnetic fields. As more data are...  

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. The baryon known as Xi_b^* confirms fundamental assumptions of physics regarding the binding of quarks. The baryon family refers to particles that are made up of three quarks and quarks form a group of six particles that differ in their masses and charges. The two lightest quarks, “up” and “down” quarks...  

Abstract: "The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest and most complicated scientific device ever built. It smashes together high energy protons in order to create new forms of matter. The accelerator has been running well and the detectors have accumulated vast amounts of data. There are now hints of the long sought after Higgs Boson. I will attempt to explain what this possible discovery  

An atom-smashing experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has detected a new subatomic particle—and it's a beauty. Known as Xi(b)* (pronounced "csai bee-star"), the new particle is a baryon, a type of matter made up of three even smaller ...  

European scientists said Friday they had detected a subatomic particle that sheds light on one of the basic forces of nature which determines the structure of matter.The particle, a baryon called Xi_b, cannot be detected directly as it is too unstable, but scientists observed traces of it in a test at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).  

CERN 'Big Bang' scientist at Europa hotel in BelfastBelfast TelegraphA scientist working to recreate the 'Big Bang' in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is to return to his native Belfast to give a keynote address at a major engineers conference. Dr Stephen Myers, director of accelerators and technology at the ...Lecturing on black holes and big bangsThis is Somersetall 2 news articles »  

Scientists came closer than ever to witnessing "Big Bang"-style conditions on Thursday after revving up the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research centre to smash sub-atomic particles together faster and harder than ever before. Physicists ...  

Cern made a tentative announcement last year that it had found “hints” of the Higgs; in the next six months, it will either pin down the elusive particle or force physicists back to the drawing board. The LHC has been repaired and fettled over the ...  

The LHC comprises a ring-shaped tunnel near Geneva, 27 kilometres (17 miles) long and up to 175 metres (570 feet) below ground. Beams of protons are accelerated in opposed directions to nearly the speed of light. Superconducting magnets “bend ...  

The Large Hadron Collider has woken from its winter slumber with a bang. Just after midnight local time on 5 April, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, based near Geneva, Switzerland, shattered its own world record by smashing protons together with a combined energy of 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV).  

More than 200 members of the ATLAS collaboration gathered on the Stanford campus last week to discuss how to make one of the world's biggest and best particle detectors even better.  

Ultimately, the accelerator is designed to operate at 14 TeV ... and can run continuously for days at a time. The profound engineering problems were revealed on September 19, 2008, when a faulty electrical connection between two of the 1624 magnets ...  

The Great Accelerator by Paul Virilio, Sparrow by Kim Todd and The Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggThe Great Accelerator by Paul Virilio, translated by Julie Rose (Polity, £9.99)Virilio, the French philosopher, has long cultivated a kind of Delphic compression, addictive once you tune in to its cadences. And what could be a better hook for a slim new volume by a "dromologist" (philosopher of speed) than the Large Hadron Collider at CERN? It...  

Oxford Sparks presents a visit to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Find out more and explore other LHC resources at www.oxfordsparks.net. No protons were harmed in the making of this animation.  

A typical candidate event at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced ...  

Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV)....  

The ALICE Experiment at CERN Orders Zecotek's Solid-State MAPD Photo DetectorsMarketWatch (press release)The ALICE Experiment is in search of answers to fundamental scientific questions, using the extraordinary tools provided by the Large Hadron Collider. For more information please visit: http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html .  

Speaking of writing popular books, I’m at it again. I’m currently hard at work writing The Particle At the End of the Universe, a popular-level book on the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. If all goes well, it should appear in bookstores at the end of this year or beginning [...]  

When the Large Hadron Collider was first fired up, people feared it would destroy the world. Sadly, for one young girl in India, committing suicide was a far more preferable alternative to facing such demise. Of course, the Large Hadron Collider didn’t destroy the world, making this young girl’s suicide all the more sad. Chhaya, [...] Related posts: Indian Child Born with 34 Fingers and Toes Now a World Record Holder Indian Girl Marries...  

Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the "big bang machine", announced Friday they've discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments. The discovery's announcement first came in Symmetry Magazine. Talking Points Memo interviewed Carlos Lourenco, one of the leading researchers at CERN, the group who run the LHC. The new particle, "neutral Xi_b^star baryon," is made up of three quarks, and only exists for a minuscule...  

A never-before-seen subatomic particle has popped into existence inside the world's largest atom smasher, bringing physicists a step closer to unraveling the mystery of how matter is put together in the universe. After crashing particles together about 530 trillion times, scientists working on the CMS experiment at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) saw unmistakable evidence for a new type of "beauty baryon." Baryons are particles...  

As the BBC reports, the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] at Cern is back with stable beams of protons after its winter break, and at a new record collision energy of 8 trillion electron volts.  From the BBC report Running the LHC at higher energies makes it more likely that Higgs particles, if they exist, will show [...]  

My fellow panelists were Michael Tuts, professor of physics at Columbia and the U.S. ATLAS Operations Program Manager at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN Laboratory, Geneva; Brian Greene, professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia and ...  

#watchthis The Higgs Boson is kind of a big deal. If it does exist, it could provide a key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. But what is a Higgs Boson, what does it do, and how does it work? With the help of this animated short, UCI physics professor Daniel Whiteson breaks down the basics of this mysterious particle (or is it a field?) in a way even your parents can...  

As the LHC's crew declared 'stable beams' it marks the start of a year of experiments that will either find or rule out the existence of the particle, say Swiss scientists.  

CERN membership places Serbia where it belongsEMportalBy obtaining the status of an associate member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Serbia went back to where it belongs, Swiss Ambassador to Serbia Erwin Helmut Hofer stated Thursday. By obtaining the status of an associate member ...  

For decades now physicists have contemplated the idea of an entire shadow world of elementary particles, called supersymmetry. It would elegantly solve mysteries that the current Standard Model of particle physics leaves unexplained, such as what cosmic dark matter is. Now some are starting to wonder. The most powerful collider in history, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has yet to see any new phenomena that would betray an unseen level of...  

He is also alleged to have compiled a 'hit list' of VIP targets including French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his former interior minister Brice Hortefeux. The 35-year-old French-Algerian was arrested in a joint MI5 and French intelligence sting three ...  

Recently, Daniel Whiteson did a presentation at CERN regarding the LHD. The information discussed was adapted into a clever, 14 page comic series found here regarding a brief explanation of the Higgs Boson particle. Pretty interesting stuff!  

Complex software models are used to understand the results from the Large ... the values of pi used in those parts of the ATLAS which were built in the UK are now hot, and therefore as of today will attract VAT.  

predictions made in “The Adjusted Twin Paradox” essay appeared to be showing up in the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), specifically the measured time-of-flight of neutrinos from the LHC in Switzerland/ France to the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy.  

Some rare cosmic rays pack an astonishing wallop, with energies prodigiously greater than particles in human-made accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider. Their sources are unknown, although scientists favor active galacti nuclei or gamma-ray bursts. If so, gamma-ray bursts should produce ultra-high-energy neutrinos, but scientists searching for these with IceCube, the giant neutrino telescope at the South Pole, have found exactly zero...  

European researchers say they have discovered a new subatomic particle that helps confirm our knowledge about how quarks bind - one of the basic forces in the shaping of matter. The CERN physics research center said Friday that the particle was discovered at the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the Large Hadron Collider's two main general-purpose detectors, in collaboration with the University of Zurich. Joe Incandela, the physicist in charge...  

Some time ago, I was amused to read about a guy being arrested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, claiming he was from the future and sent to our time to destroy the machine, as it was the cause of the end of the world. Whilst swallowing an ...  

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 5 (UPI) -- The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after a winter break, at higher energies than ever, officials at CERN, the European nuclear research center, said.  

Cerner (NASDAQ:CERN) closed Monday's positive trading session at $78.22. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $53.93 and 52-week high of $84.10. Cerner (CERN) stock has been showing support around $75.40 and resistance in the $79.90 range. Technical indicators for the stock are Bullish and S&P gives Cerner (CERN) a very positive 5 STARS (out of 5) strong buy rating. For a hedged play on Cerner (CERN), look at the Jul '12 $75.00...  

Last week the Large Hadron Collider has started producing collisions at the record high 8-TeV centre-of-mass energy to the ATLAS and CMS detectors. In the course of the first week of run almost 200 inverse picobarns have been delivered to CMS, which is absolutely satisfactory. The integrated luminosity versus time is shown below.And here is the peak instantaneous luminosity reached during these first few days of running:(NB: I believe the...  

From BBC News - Science & Environment: The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after its winter break, and running at even high energies as it seeks new physics and a resolution to the hunt for the Higgs boson. Read the whole article  

Peter Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC, who gave his name to the Higgs boson, described as ‘the most sought-after particle in modern physics’, visits the University of Bristol’s School of Physics today to give a talk entitled ‘My Life as a Boson’.  

The Large Hadron Collider has woken from hibernation with a bang, increasing its chances of finding a range of elusive particles including the Higgs boson  

The Jefferson Lab The hunt for 'dark photons' is on. via Wikimedia While the Large Hadron Collider prepares to fire up its proton beams and get back to particle smashing, another accelerator is dialing up the search for another elusive particle. The Thomas ...  

Geneva 8 May 2012. CERN1 today signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics2 in Budapest for an extension to the CERN data centre. Under the new agreement, the Wigner Centre will host CERN equipment that will substantially extend the capabilities of the LHC Computing Grid Tier-0 activities and provide the opportunity for business continuity solutions to be implemented. This contract is initially until 31 December 2015, with...  

Sunnyvale, CA — May 15, 2012 Electric Cloud®, a leading DevOps automation company, today announced that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has deployed the company's ElectricCommander solution to automate and accelerate the application development efforts of more than 20,000 users of its ROOT software.  

In particle physics, the baryon family refers to particles that are made up of three quarks. Quarks form a group of six particles that differ in their masses and charges. The two lightest quarks, the so-called “up” and “down” quarks, form the two atomic components, protons and neutrons. All baryons that are composed of the three lightest quarks (“up”, “down” and “strange” quarks) are known. Only very few baryons with heavy quarks have been...  

French-Algerian Adlene Hicheur accused of conspiring to organise attacks with north African wing of al-QaidaA former nuclear scientist at Switzerland's Cern laboratory, famous for its Hadron collider that aims to recreate the conditions of the big bang, has gone on trial for allegedly plotting terror attacks in France.Adlene Hicheur, 35, who is French-Algerian, is accused of conspiring to organise attacks with the north African wing of al...  

Geneva, 14 May 2012. Space, time and gravity are under the cultural spotlight at CERN this month with the arrival of Gilles Jobin, the laboratory's first choreographer in residence and winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva. Jobin is an internationally renowned Swiss choreographer with a company in Geneva. His CERN inspiration partner for his three-month residency at the laboratory will...  

The problem is known as pile-up ... Already, “we’ve done humongously better than we thought we could,” says Mike Lamont, the head of accelerator operations at CERN. Every time two tightly packed bunches of protons cross, they generate not one ...  

The fourth phase of CERN openlab was officially launched during a meeting of its board of sponsors taking place at CERN* on 8 and 9 May. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading information technology companies HP, Intel, Oracle, Siemens, with contribution from Huawei for this new phase. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide community working on...  

Geneva, 9 May 2012. The fourth phase of CERN openlab was officially launched during a meeting of its board of sponsors taking place at CERN on 8 and 9 May. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading information technology companies HP, Intel, Oracle, Siemens, with contribution from Huawei for this new phase. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide...  

With instruments offering “ tantalizing hints ” in support of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle thought to endow matter with mass, we stand at a singular moment in time for physics. Will we get sufficient evidence to confirm the existence of the Higgs, thus helping to complete the decades-old Standard Model? Will science have to go back to the drawing board? Or something in between? On April 18, 2012, I participated in a panel at...  

The Higgs Boson is kind of a big deal. If it does exist, it could provide a key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. But what is a Higgs Boson, what does it do, and how does it work? With the help of this animated short, UCI physics professor Daniel Whiteson breaks down the basics of this mysterious particle (or is it a field?) in a way even your parents can understand. [Vimeo v ...  

GENEVA, April 5: The world’s largest particle collider notched up a new record on Thursday as it escalated its quest to find fundamental matter and explore the origins of the Universe, CERN said.At 00:38 am Thursday, the Large Hadron Collider ...  

CERN automates application development with Electric CloudITworld.comBy Sophie Curtis, Techworld | Software, CERN Add a new comment May 20, 2012, 7:08 AM — The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is using automation technology from Electric Cloud to accelerate the application development efforts of more ...  

GENEVA (AP) - European researchers say they have discovered a new subatomic particle that helps confirm our knowledge about how quarks bind _ one of the basic forces in the shaping of matter.The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said Friday the particle was discovered at one of CERN's ...  

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Attempts to rule against naming the Higgs boson after physicist Peter Higgs suggest that political correctness is taking over from scholarship (Nature483, 374; 2012). Your suggestion that the name Higgs should be retained for reasons akin to business branding is  

Geneva, 5 April 2012. At 00:38 CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared 'stable beams' as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC's four interaction points. This signals the start of physics data taking by the LHC experiments for 2012. The collision energy of 8 TeV is a new world record, and increases the machine's discovery potential considerably.  

-- Supercomputer probes famous but messy particle split -- Majorana particle glimpsed in lab -- Sparks Fly Over Shoestring Test Of 'Holographic Principle' -- Linear-collider teams join in rivalry -- Neutrinos Move Near Light Speed in New CERN Experiment -- 2nd neutrino team refutes faster-than-light find -- Recent Results Of The CMS Experiment -- First message transmitted via neutrinos -- LHC Slams Protons Together at Record Energy -- LHC @ 8...  

ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2012) — Some rare cosmic rays pack an astonishing wallop, with energies prodigiously greater than particles in human-made accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider. Their sources are unknown, although scientists favor active ...  

(AGI) Paris - European CERN physicists discovered a new subatomic particle, a baryon named 'Xi_b'. A baryon is formed by three quarks, among them protons and neutrons, which form most of visible matter. The 'Xi_b' has not been directly observed because it ...  

So it's ideally suited to Keane and Zhang's task. The new work produces some good news and some bad news. First the bad. The new simulations indicate that pions produced in this way will be significantly slower than previously thought, travelling at only ...  

"...the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing." -Leon Lederman, author of The God Particle The Higgs Boson: you know the deal. It's the last undiscovered particle in our current picture of all the fundamental particles in the Universe. (Image credit: Fermilab, retrieved from here.) If we can find it, we'll either have a...  

The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after its winter break, and running at even high energies as it seeks new physics and a resolution to the hunt for the Higgs boson.  

In Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle, Sample tells the story of the hunt for the Higgs boson. Peter Higgs, along with a number of other physicists, developed a theoretical model that explained the masses of all known particles through an ...  

A brilliant nuclear scientist working at the Cern nuclear laboratory was today sentenced to five in prison for plotting attacks on behalf of Al-Qaeda Adlene Hicheur, who is French and from an Algerian background and who studied in England, was arrested in ...  

ABC News (blog)Tadao Cern's Art Will Blow You AwayABC News (blog)Lithuanian photography studio Tadao Cern presents a new photo project titled, “Blow Job” where blasts of air are blown into the subject's faces creating hilarious facial expressions. During Design Week in Vilnus, Lithuania art studios traditionally ...Tadas Černiauskas' 'Blow Job' Series Captures Faces Blasted With Air (PHOTOS)Huffington PostPhotographer "Blows Away...  

known as the God Particle. Cern made a tentative announcement last year that it had found "hints" of the Higgs; in the next six months, it will either pin down the elusive particle or force physicists back to the drawing board. The LHC has been ...  

“The discovery of the new particle confirms the theory of how quarks bind and therefore helps to understand the strong interaction, one of the four basic forces of physics which determines the structure of matter.”  

Techworld.com - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is using automation technology from Electric Cloud to accelerate the application development efforts of more than 10,000 users of its ROOT software. ROOT is an open-source C++ ...  

The Collide@CERN Geneva prize is the second strand in the Collide@CERN Artists Residency programme launched by CERN in 2011. Jobin was given the award by a jury for his proposal to explore through dance the relationship between mind and body at the world's ...  

When it comes to particle science, it's not all about huge winding tunnels and god particles. Super/collider, a group that aims to promote science through eye-catching creative methods, teamed up with designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating to craft this relatively simple -- but working-- particle accelerator for Milan Design week. The setup involves several hand-blown bulbs, with a vacuum inside them allowing electrons to rocket from side to...  

As part of its austerity drive, Greece has temporarily reduced its annual payment to the European Space Agency (ESA) and is considering a similar cut to the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. A €10 million hole in his roughly € ...  

CERN Selects Electric Cloud To Manage Application Quality For Tens Of ...MarketWatch (press release)Incorrectly compiled and tested applications can literally set your experiments back by months and obscure important findings," said Benedikt Hegner, Scientist with CERN's development team. "This quality assurance requirement is compounded by the fact ...and more »  

Like, what would happen if you put your hand in the beam? The folks from Sixty Symbols recently asked some physicists that very question and got some rather puzzled responses, so they went straight to CERN itself to get a definitive answer.  

Searching for the Elusive Higgs ParticleRecord - Columbia NewsThe world of physics has its mysteries, but one of its biggest—whether the elusive Higgs boson actually exists—is closer to a resolution, of sorts. Researchers first theorized the Higgs boson in the 1960s. It is named for Peter Higgs, ...  

LONDON, UK – A French court has sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist at the prestigious CERN laboratory to five years in jail for plotting terrorist attacks. Adlene Hicheur, who previously worked as a researcher at the European Organization for ...  

However, Xi_b^* breaks up in a known cascade of decay products. Ernest Aguiló, a postdoctoral student from Professor Amsler's group, identified traces of the respective decay products in the measurement data and was able to reconstruct the decay cascades ...  

PARIS — A French court sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in prison Friday for his role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaida’s north African wing. Adlene Hicheur, a former researcher at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory, ...  

According to legend, Leon Lederman wanted to nickname the Higgs Boson “the goddamned particle,” but his editor wouldn’t allow the profanity, so we’re stuck with the God Particle. At least we have Daniel Whiteson, a physics professor and particle physicist, and Jorge Cham, cartoonist behind the web-strip Piled Higher & Deeper, using their knowledge and [...]  

CERN Awards Major Contract for Computer Infrastructure Hosting to Wigner ...Newswise (press release)CERN today signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest for an extension to the CERN data centre. Under the new agreement, the Wigner Centre will host CERN equipment that will substantially extend the capabilities of the ...and more »  

A French court has sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in prison for his role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaida's north African affiliate. Adlène Hicheur, a former researcher at Switzerland's Cern laboratory ...  

The session will also reveal the challenges that open source addressed.  Attendees will learn how CERN created an infrastructure that delivered the uncompromising reliability it needed – and made it possible to know what is happening to ...  

Higgs Boson explained - via animation or, by click by click comic version. A brief talk about the mysterious Higgs Boson and the LHC search for it, given by particle physicist Daniel Whiteson  

The video above shows how the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) instrument on the world's largest particle accelerator works. The LHC was built primarily to detect the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is believed to allow energy to acquire mass.  

particle accelerator at CERN, Europe’s high-energy physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland — would open the door to new concepts such as supersymmetry, a set of theories that would resolve some of the problems in the standard model of particle physics.  

European researchers say they have discovered a new subatomic particle that helps confirm our knowledge about how quarks bind — one of the basic forces in the shaping of matter. The CERN physics research center said Friday that the particle was predicted long ago, but finding it was "really kind of a classic tour de force of experimental work." Known Continue...  

Michael Falk knows you miss retro-style video games, so he comes up with an iOS game called Ms. Particle-Man. To finish the game, one has to control Ms. Particle-Man and aid him/her in the search for Higgs boson, which proves to be very elusive, across ...  

The good folks at the LHC have not been shy about sharing their results. Indeed, at the end of last year, the bigwigs at CERN called a press conference to announce that they hadn't found the Higgs boson yet, but they were starting to see some signals that ...  

April 12 is the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight but did you know it had an illegal element to it? Astronomer Dave Reneke explains the legal finepoints. We also go over the most recent progress on the hunt for the Higgs boson (nicknamed the God particle) and what big things might ...  

The GuardianFrench Cern scientist goes on trial for 'al-Qaeda plot'BBC NewsA nuclear scientist at the Cern laboratory has gone on trial in France accused of plotting terrorist attacks. Adlene Hicheur has been in custody since his arrest two-and-a-half years ago, after police intercepted his emails to an alleged contact in ...6-year prison term sought in French trial of ex-CERN physicist accused of ...Washington PostFormer Cern scientist faces...  

I agree with Chris: the molasses analogy is awful. I think it is actually worse than just saying “interactions with the Higgs field give particles mass”. Let me also say something about “negative gravity” and inflation, as that hasn’t ...  

Open Culture editor Dan Colman scours the web for the best educational media. He finds the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & movies you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between.  

Even casual science observers are likely aware of the Higgs boson, affectionately known as the "God particle," which some physicists theorize gives all particles mass. Observers might also have an inkling that scientists thought they had found ...  

GENEVA — European researchers say they have discovered a new subatomic particle that helps confirm our knowledge about how quarks bind — one of the basic forces in the shaping of matter. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said ...  

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