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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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Experiment reveals evidence for a previously unseen behaviour of light

Posted on 03/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Beams of light do not, generally speaking, bounce off each other like snooker balls. But at the high energies in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN they have just been observed doing exactly that At the Guardian.

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Newly discovered particles, and what’s in them

Posted on 20/08/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Quarks, basically. But more charming than usual 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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