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Research team predicts the next big thing in the world of particle physics: supersymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of the universe will be the outgrowth of the discovery of the Higgs boson, according to a team of University of Oklahoma researchers.   The team predicts the discovery will ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 14

Possible Fifth Force Would Make Direct Detection of Dark Matter Unlikely

(PhysOrg.com) -- No one knows exactly what a “fifth force” might be, but studies have shown that, if a long-range fifth force does exist, it could have surprising effects on the universe’s structure formation. ...

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created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (43) | comments 52 feature




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CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data

Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Particle physicists report 'intriguing hints' of Higgs Boson

Yesterday physicists in Europe reported possible signs of the Higgs boson, a missing piece in the particle-physics puzzle long suspected of giving elementary particles -- such as electrons and quarks -- their mass ...

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 27

Possible signs of the Higgs remain in latest analyses (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced in a seminar held at CERN today. However, the ATLAS ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Flowing along in four dimensions

In 1988, John Cardy asked if there was a c-theorem in four dimensions. At the time, he reasonably expected his work on theories of quantum particles and fields to be professionally put to the test… But ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Dark matter science

Dark matter – there’s a growing feeling that we are getting closer to finding out the true nature of this elusive stuff. At least we are running a number of experiments that seem (on theoretical ...

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created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 25

Could primordial black holes be dark matter?

(PhysOrg.com) -- “We know that about 25% of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but we don’t know what it is,” Michael Kesden tells PhysOrg.com. “There are a number of different theories about what da ...

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (25) | comments 48 | with audio podcast feature

A hint of Higgs: An update from the LHC

The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that ...

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created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Will the real Higgs Boson please stand up?

Although physicists from two experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider recently reported at the Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics that they didn't find ...

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created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Large Hadron Collider achieves 2011 data milestone

Today at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by Large Hadron Collider experiments ATLAS and CMS clicked over from 0.999 to 1 inverse femtobarn, signalling an important milestone in the experiments' ...

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created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

Electron is surprisingly round, say scientists following 10 year study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Imperial College London have made the most accurate measurement yet of the shape of the humble electron, finding that it is almost a perfect sphere, in a study published in the ...

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created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 103 | with audio podcast


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