Category: Physics

  • Charting the future of CERN

    CERN’s Director General on why the coming years will be crucial for the long-term future of particle physics.

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  • A new energy frontier for heavy ions

    This week’s heavy-ion run at the LHC breaks a symbolic barrier, says CERN accelerator physicist John Jowett

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  • Breaking the Rules

    This week it’s the turn of heavy-ion physics to take the spotlight

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  • Seeing is believing

    Lucio Rossi reflects on how particle accelerators extend our sense of sight

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  • Who invented quarks?

    The official story is demonstrably wrong, says CERN theorist Álvaro de Rújula

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  • A busy week for science

    Rolf Heuer on a week that included BICEP2’s announcement on gravitational waves, Moriond, joint Tevatron-LHC results and a new director for TRIUMF

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  • A Nobel prize for particle physics

    Wherever you are in the global particle physics community, you too can feel a sense of pride in the achievement of a Nobel for Higgs and Englert

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  • First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei

    First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei

    Geneva, 8 May 2013. An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN1 has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, “pear” shapes. The observations contradict some existing nuclear theories and will require others to be amended. The results are published in the journal Nature on 8 May 2013. Most nuclei have the

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  • Carrying the weak force: Thirty years of the W boson

    Carrying the weak force: Thirty years of the W boson

    On 25 January 1983, CERN physicists announced to the world the discovery of the W boson, an elementary particle that carries the weak force

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  • Video: Colliding particles episode 11 – Higgs

    This episode of the Colliding Particles series looks back at the July Higgs search update

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