Category: Physics

  • The case for future colliders

    With the update of the European strategy for particle physics underway, it’s timely to examine the case for a future collider to follow the LHC

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  • Moriond feels the strong force

    Moriond feels the strong force

    Pentaquarks, charmed beauty particles and more from the Moriond conference’s second week, which is devoted to studies of the strong nuclear force

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  • Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

    Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

    The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld

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  • LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    The LHCb collaboration has observed a phenomenon known as CP violation in the decays of a particle known as a D0 meson for the first time

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  • The usefulness of useless knowledge

    The usefulness of useless knowledge

    Fundamental science will help solve the world’s problems

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  • Rugby or football? ISOLDE reveals shape-shifting character of Mercury isotopes

    Rugby or football? ISOLDE reveals shape-shifting character of Mercury isotopes

    An unprecedented combination of experimental nuclear physics and theoretical and computational modelling techniques has been brought together to reveal the full extent of the odd-even shape staggering of exotic mercury isotopes, and explain how it happens

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  • Hunting for dark quarks

    Hunting for dark quarks

    A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate

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  • Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

    Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

    Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.

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  • Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs

    It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC

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  • LIVE: Inside CERN’s antimatter factory

    LIVE: Inside CERN’s antimatter factory

    On Thursday 26 April 2018 at 4pm CEST, join the CERN Facebook live from our unique Antiproton Decelerator

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