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Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)

A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics. ...

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created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 24

Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson

Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 26

Conference highlights first results from the Large Hadron Collider

First results from the LHC at CERN are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The ...

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created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 8




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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

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

End of Fermilab's Tevatron evokes memories, pride

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Chicago physicists Henry Frisch and Melvyn Shochet became involved with the Tevatron particle accelerator when it was still in the planning stages at Fermi National Accelerator ...

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Shutdown looms at pioneering American atom smasher

(AP) -- Aside from the slogan on the water tower that reads "City of Energy," there is little in this leafy Chicago suburb of gently rolling hills to indicate that it has been the center of the universe when ...

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created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Tevatron retires: The era of big American physics about to end

The era of big American physics ends Friday with the retirement of the Tevatron particle accelerator, which has been recreating the Big Bang under four miles of Illinois prairie for 25 years.

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created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 16

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

Tevatron experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab are close to reaching the critical sensitivity that is necessary to look for the existence of a light Higgs particle. Scientists from both the CDF and ...

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created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Hunting the unseen

A better knowledge about the composition of sub-atomic particles such as protons and neutrons has sparked conjecture about, as yet, unseen particles. A tool based on theoretical calculations that could aid ...

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created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 1/2)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence ...

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created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 142 | with audio podcast feature

Rice-born detector finds heaviest antimatter

Physicists at Rice University and their collaborators have detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus, antihelium-4. This newly observed particle is the heaviest antimatter particle ever detected. ...

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created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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