Category: Physics

  • 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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  • ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC

    Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world’s largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – are today

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