http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component of modern physics -- the massive fundamental particle called the Higgs boson. http://www.physorg.com/news179421292.html Physics Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:15:45 EST news179421292 (PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning. This exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, which had been held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory`s Tevatron collider since 2001. It marks another important milestone on the road to first physics at the LHC in 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news178781372.html Physics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:44:16 EST news178781372 Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced. http://www.physorg.com/news178212182.html Physics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:23:26 EST news178212182 (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. http://www.physorg.com/news178198886.html Physics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:42:04 EST news178198886 (AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. http://www.physorg.com/news178024871.html Physics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:21:52 EST news178024871 The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said. http://www.physorg.com/news177951527.html Physics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:46 EST news177951527 The world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults, is set to restart this weekend, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news177921856.html Physics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:46:14 EST news177921856 The European Organization for Nuclear Research says it expects to restart the world's largest atom smasher by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. http://www.physorg.com/news177700443.html Physics Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:14:20 EST news177700443 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime of a minute or so, that could provide the first experimental confirmation of string theory. http://www.physorg.com/news177262216.html Physics Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:34:37 EST news177262216 A peckish bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news176969873.html Physics Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:18:45 EST news176969873 Superstring theory aims to explain the laws of physics from extremely small strings in various states. Theoretical superstring theory is therefore normally not considered to be particularly relevant for practical particle physics experiments. http://www.physorg.com/news176125202.html Physics Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:42:37 EST news176125202 During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news175812230.html Physics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:44:21 EST news175812230 (PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November. http://www.physorg.com/news175243758.html Physics Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:20:01 EST news175243758 (PhysOrg.com) -- Troubles at the Large Hadron Collider have led some physicists to suggest the Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery. Nahn explains why he disagrees. http://www.physorg.com/news175181725.html Physics Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:42 EST news175181725 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive, a possible future form of spacecraft propulsion that could drive spacecraft at a good fraction of the speed of light. http://www.physorg.com/news174293159.html Physics Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:49:14 EST news174293159 CERN`s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate the linear collider at CERN in an exclusive video interview with Physicsworld, which is being relaunched today, Wednesday 16 September. http://www.physorg.com/news172317407.html Physics Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:01:04 EST news172317407 (AP) -- When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole. http://www.physorg.com/news168879581.html Physics Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:00:23 EST news168879581 CERN 's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections were completed last week, indicating that no further repairs are necessary for safe running. http://www.physorg.com/news168792030.html Physics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:41:11 EST news168792030 (AP) -- Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news168180155.html Physics Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:43:42 EST news168180155 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world`s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world`s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The successful dress rehearsal proves that the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is ready to analyze and manage real data from the massive machine. The United States is a vital partner in the development and operation of the WLCG, with 15 universities and three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories from 11 states contributing to the project. http://www.physorg.com/news165680293.html Physics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news165680293 Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators. They show in a paper published today on Science Express that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars. http://www.physorg.com/news165159142.html Space & Earth Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:32:53 EST news165159142 At the 151st session of the CERN Council today, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) remains on schedule for a restart this autumn, albeit about 2-3 weeks later than originally foreseen. Following the incident of 19 September 2008 that brought the LHC to a standstill, a great deal of work has been done to understand the causes of the incident and ensure that a similar incident cannot happen again. http://www.physorg.com/news164895030.html Physics Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:54 EST news164895030 (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher will likely be fired up again in October after scientists have carried out tests and put in place further safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults that sidelined the $10 billion machine shortly after startup last year, the operator said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news164735558.html Physics Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:53:05 EST news164735558 Particle physics saves lives, connects continents through new channels of communication, helps us understand the world around us and inspires tomorrow's leaders. http://www.physorg.com/news162721306.html Physics Thu, 28 May 2009 09:22:15 EST news162721306 After a huge success in first testing, followed by a very public meltdown last September, the Large Hadron Collider may be ready for action again as early as June. http://www.physorg.com/news162574224.html Physics Tue, 26 May 2009 16:31:09 EST news162574224 (PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how gravity behaves on the quantum scale, physicists have developed a model that has an interesting implication: mini black holes could be everywhere, and all particles might be made of various forms of black holes. http://www.physorg.com/news161857121.html Physics Mon, 18 May 2009 09:19:20 EST news161857121 Austria is pulling out of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns. http://www.physorg.com/news160924325.html Physics Thu, 07 May 2009 14:13:01 EST news160924325 The Large Hadron Collider is an enormous particle accelerator whose 17-mile tunnel straddles the borders of France and Switzerland. A group of physicists at the University of Nevada, Reno has analyzed data from the accelerator that could ultimately prove or disprove the possibility of a fifth force of nature. http://www.physorg.com/news160128782.html Physics Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:13:26 EST news160128782 (PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During the two-year commissioning process, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory physicists are shuttling back and forth to KEK, the high-energy accelerator lab in Tsukuba, to join an international team of scientists working around the clock to get the accelerator's final focus system up and running. When fully commissioned, this system will squeeze the facility's electron beam down to a slender ribbon just 35 nanometers thick -the narrowest beam of particles ever achieved. http://www.physorg.com/news157742624.html Physics Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:24:45 EST news157742624 (PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The work was presented at the 17th annual conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, held in Prague, Czech Republic, March 21-27. http://www.physorg.com/news157127149.html Technology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:26:31 EST news157127149