Category: Physics

  • Making the leap from the impossible to the possible

    Making the leap from the impossible to the possible

    During the LHC era and on the cusp of the High-Luminosity LHC era, theoretical and experimental physicists are already using precision calculations to find the smallest deviations that might reveal new physics

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  • Exotic atomic nucleus sheds light on the world of quarks

    Exotic atomic nucleus sheds light on the world of quarks

    CERN and the Accelerator Laboratory in Jyväskylä, Finland, have teamed up to weigh in on the understanding of the effects of the weak force on quarks

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  • Bikash Sinha (1945 – 2023)

    Bikash Sinha (1945 – 2023)

    Bikash Sinha(1945 – 2023) — Bikash Sinha, influential Indian scientist and pioneer in quark–gluon plasma and the early Universe, passed away on 11 August at the age of 78. As one of the ALICE experiment’s early visionaries and architects, his impact on heavy-ion physics is unmistakable. Bikash Sinha was born on 16 June 1945 in

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  • Thick-skinned: Scientists determine the thickness of neutron “skin” in lead-208 nuclei

    Thick-skinned: Scientists determine the thickness of neutron “skin” in lead-208 nuclei

    This is the first measurement of the neutron skin of lead-208 using exchanges predominantly involving gluons and it can provide insight into the structure of nuclei and neutron stars

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  • ISOLDE sees shape shifting in gold nuclei

    ISOLDE sees shape shifting in gold nuclei

    The finding comes a little more than 50 years after the phenomenon was first discovered at the facility in mercury nuclei

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  • CMS presents its latest search for new exotic particles

    CMS presents its latest search for new exotic particles

    This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced in the detector

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  • ATLAS and CMS unite to weigh in on the top quark

    ATLAS and CMS unite to weigh in on the top quark

    The new result combines 15 previous measurements to give the most precise determination of the top-quark mass to date

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  • In search of supersymmetric dark matter

    In search of supersymmetric dark matter

    The ATLAS collaboration sets stringent limits on the existence of supersymmetric dark matter particles

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  • From partons to hadrons

    From partons to hadrons

    The CMS collaboration sheds light on hadron formation

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  • ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    The result is a milestone in the study of the properties and behaviour of antimatter

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