Tag Archives: CERN

A day of xenon collisions at CERN

Posted on 15/10/2017 by Jon Butterworth

On Friday, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN had a day of smashing xenon nuclei together, a departure from its usual diet of protons or lead At the Guardian.

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Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

Posted on 10/07/2017 by Jon Butterworth

As the Large Hadron Collider at CERN continues probing the high-energy frontier of physics, a new feature of its greatest discovery so far has come into view In high-energy particle collisions we study the smallest known constituents of matter. According … Continue reading →

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Is the Standard Model isolated?

Posted on 12/03/2017 by Jon Butterworth

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN revealed the Higgs boson in 2012, but has led to no comparable discovery since. It is worth asking what we hope to learn from the new data coming soon – and indeed from any … Continue reading →

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A new CERN experiment targets even higher energies (eventually)

Posted on 08/01/2017 by Jon Butterworth

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