Anti-protons, Dark Matter and Helium

First post of “Postcards from the Energy Frontier” at the Cosmic Shambles Network.

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A new measurement at CERN tells us something about the way particles travel through interstellar space. Which in turn may help a satellite on the International Space Station find evidence for Dark Matter.

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Geneva Monopoly

Just returned from a couple of weeks at CERN. Saw this in Geneva and had to buy it – you can probably tell why.

Monopoly – Geneva Edition (and a foot).

Monopoly – Geneva Edition (and a foot).

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First ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave

Turning out to be a busy August in physics. This breakthrough was just published in Nature:

 

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ATLAS and CMS results on Higgs decay to bottom quarks

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This morning two results appeared on the arXiv:

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