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LHCb investigates the properties of one of physics’ most puzzling particles

The particle, known as χc1(3872), has fascinated physicists for years. Now, the LHCb collaboration is closer to finding out what it is made up of

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16 July, 2024

LHCb investigates the rare Σ+→pμ+μ- decay

The rarest hyperon decay ever observed

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28 June, 2024

Going the extra mile to squeeze supersymmetry out of CMS data

Re-analysing LHC Run 2 data with cutting-edge analysis techniques allowed CMS physicists to address an old discrepancy

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27 June, 2024

ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs

By combining multiple Higgs boson pair studies, physicists are closer to finding out how the particle interacts with itself, providing clues to the stability of the Universe

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18 June, 2024
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18 June, 2024

How can AI help physicists search for new particles?

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to search for exotic-looking collisions that could indicate new physics

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13 June, 2024

Bringing black hole jets down to Earth

The Fireball collaboration has used CERN’s HiRadMat facility to produce an analogue of the jets of matter and antimatter that stream out of some black holes and neutron stars

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13 June, 2024
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13 June, 2024

Shaking the box for new physics

The CMS collaboration has searched for new physics in a rare decay of a known particle, using an approach that can be likened to shaking a box containing a birthday present to find a clue about what’s inside

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12 June, 2024
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12 June, 2024

Probing matter–antimatter asymmetry with AI

Using a cutting-edge AI algorithm, the CMS collaboration has obtained the first evidence of CP violation in the decay of the strange beauty meson into a pair of muons and a pair of electrically charged kaons

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30 April, 2024

MoEDAL zeroes in on magnetic monopoles

The latest searches conducted by the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider considerably shrink the theoretical arenas in which the hunt for magnetic monopoles can continue

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26 April, 2024
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26 April, 2024

Searching for new asymmetry between matter and antimatter

LHCb has conducted a new search for matter–antimatter asymmetry using its full data sets from the first and second runs of the LHC

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11 April, 2024