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Two years ago the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced. What’s new?

Two years ago yesterday the discovery of a new boson – later confirmed as the Higgs – was announced at CERN, as the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) began in Melbourne. This week, ICHEP is underway again, this … Continue reading

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Smashing Physics

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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.

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Off mass-shell: Pythagoras to the LHC, via Einstein and Feynman

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