CERN Hadron Collider

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 ...  

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 ...  

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....  

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 ...  

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.  

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...  

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  

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  

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...  

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...  

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 .  

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 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...  

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