Mar 16 2011
Could Higgs Particle be a Time-Traveling Assassin?
Is there another type of Higgs particle that can travel through time? Could it be used for evil?
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Mar 02 2011
Higgs is Still Hiding in Quantum Haystack
When looking for a needle in a haystack, what's the best method for finding said needle? One method would be to find where the needle isn't hiding.
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Feb 24 2011
The Soviet Particle Accelerator That Time Forgot
In the late 1980s the USSR had begun work on what would have been the largest particle accelerator on the planet. Alas, it was never finished and only an eerie tunnel system remains.
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Dec 04 2010
Quest to Find a Menagerie of Exotic Particles
The hypothetical "X" particle recently suggested as a dark matter candidate by scientists at Brookhaven isn't the only exotic particle that physicists have proposed in recent years.
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Nov 28 2010
In the Beginning, the Universe Was a Liquid
After colliding lead ions at close to the speed of light, physicists at the LHC have discovered the Universe acted like a fluid in the moments immediately after the Big Bang.
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Nov 04 2010
LHC to Recreate Conditions Just After Big Bang
This month, the LHC will begin accelerating lead ions close to the speed of light. The resulting ion-ion collisions will produce temperatures so high that physicists will glimpse what it was like just after the Big Bang.
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Nov 01 2010
Tevatron Gets New Lease on Life
It's official: Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator has a new lease on life, thanks to a decision by the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to extend its operation for another three years, through 2014.
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Sep 22 2010
Atom Smasher Makes New Discovery
The previously unobserved physical phenomenon is just the latest breakthrough for the LHC.
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Aug 10 2010
What Is the Large Hadron Collider Looking For?
Just what is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator looking for?
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Jul 28 2010
The ‘Haystack’ Gets Smaller in Hunt for Higgs Particle
Hunting for the Higgs boson isn't like trying to find one needle in a haystack (as the proverbial saying goes), it's like trying to find one needle in a Chicago-sized city filled with haystacks.
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