Particle Physics

Retro particle physics at CERN. Passing through Geneva airport on the way to and from skiing last week made me think of the Large Hadron Collider. The recent news from the CERN has been very good. Quietly and without fuss, ...  

New platform helps CERN automate virtualisation infrastructure.European particle physics organisation, CERN, is embracing server virtualization and cloud computing technology to improve CPU utilisation and the delivery of computing resources to scientists around the world.  

Hundreds of feet below rolling hills and quaint European villages, a city of primary-colored steel and concrete has been built for the loftiest, most esoteric of purposes: to find the Higgs boson, the missing link to the Standard Model of particle physics. Todd Eberle photographs the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as cern.  

The excitement in the particle physics community is palpable at the moment, with a regular stream of tweets emitting from CERN. In the latest news, the large Hadron collider (LHC) reported that it had reached 1.18TeV with its beams, the highest energy ever recorded for an Earth-bound particle accelerator. The unexciting news is that we are all still here, and (barring a meteor strike) we will still be here when the LHC...  

All talk (at least around the physics lab water-cooler) may have been about the Higgs Boson – or the God particle to give it its more dramatic moniker – but the humble neutralino could potentially steal its thunder in the coming year, according to scientists. With the Large Hadron Collider now active and continuing on its path to enlighten/destroy humanity, the Higgs Boson could now potentially be spotted for the first time in the tenties...  

I do not know about you, but top quarks fascinate me. Since my early years as a student in particle physics I participated in the top search, and then the top discovery, with the CDF experiment; and I then worked for many more years with top quark samples. And that particle is fascinating for many different reasons: its phenomenology, the richness of its decays, its mass close to the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. I feel honored by...  

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New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory heightens uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component of modern physics -- the massive fundamental particle, the Higgs boson. Particle collision data resulting in two leptons helped improve measurements of the mass of the heavy subatomic top quark, which bears on the Higgs, says a physicist who led the team.  

This is the second part of a two-part collection of tips for particle physics graduate students. The first part is here.Three: be a fool today if you want to be a guru tomorrow The third advice I have in store for Jane is maybe the toughest to follow, at least at first. But I do believe it is of critical importance for her to grow, become knowledgeable, and distinguish herself from the rest of the pack. read more  

I've made a couple of oblique references to this over the past couple of months, but I have an article in the new issue of Physics World, on experiments using molecules to search for an electric dipole moment of the electron: When most of us think about searching for physics beyond the Standard Model - the dominant paradigm of particle physics - the first thing that springs to mind is probably a gigantic particle accelerator like CERN's Large...  

The Hadron Collider team looks to improve CPU utilisation and computing resource delivery to scientists Jon Brodkin 18 December, 2009 04:03 CERN, the European particle physics organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider , is embracing server virtualization and cloud computing technology to improve CPU utilization and the delivery of computing ...  

Particle physics experiment construction a boon for Minnesota neighborsSymmetry magazineThe facility will house a multi-ton particle detector that will investigate the role of subatomic particles called neutrinos in the origin of the universe. ...  

Starting from the end of November, Queen Mary's Particle Physics Research Centre is the sole recipient of the T2K experiment data. The T2K Collaboration is a 500-strong alliance of scientists in 12 countries, who have come together to investigate the ghostly neutrino. Physicist Dr Francesca Di Lodovico said: "Trillions of neutrinos pass through our bodies every second, but you don't notice; they pass through space and the Earth with almost no...  

New Zealand HeraldA big bang heard around the globeToronto StarAt CERN, a particle physics laboratory near Geneva, scientists accelerate particle beams through a 27-km-long tunnel and smash them into each other. ...Particle Beams Once Again Accelerated in Large Hadron Collider at CERNChicago Press Release Services (press release)EUROPE: Large Hadron Collider back in businessUniversity World NewsBig Bang atom smasher sends beams in 2...  

The Catholic ReviewVatican, world's largest particle physics lab plan to collaborateThe Catholic Review... a professor of medical physics and president of the TERA Foundation, which works closely with CERN in finding ways to apply atomic research in treating ...