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Category Archives: Physics
True enough for year 8
At the Guardian.
Quarks bonding differently at LHCb
The strong force binds quarks together to form hadrons. Until last Monday, only two types of hadron were known, but the LHCb experiment at CERN has just proved there is a third way At the Guardian.
Off mass-shell: Pythagoras to the LHC, via Einstein and Feynman
At the Guardian.
Posted in Mathematics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged LHC, Relativity
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How wide is a Higgs?
In accord with Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, short-lived particles have uncertain mass. So the Higgs boson, which gives mass to other particles, is uncertain about its own mass. New results from the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have started to … Continue reading