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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory celebrates 50 years since discovery of groundbreaking particle
Fifty years ago, a team at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park made a discovery that turned the world of ...
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What Is the Higgs Boson?
Beginning in the late 1980's physicists started developing plans to build a particle accelerator capable of detecting the ...
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New CERN chief pledges to forge ahead with $17-billion supercollider
helped to discover the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in ...
CERN’s Bold Quest To Discover New Physics Through Higgs Bosons
Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have been studying Higgs bosons and searching for signs of physics ...
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CERN scientists to explore interactions between Higgs bosons to unlock new physics
Discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, the elusive Higgs boson particle has been at the centre stage for ...
Physics World22d
How a next-generation particle collider could unravel the mysteries of the Higgs boson
Philip Burrows (PB): The LHC accelerator is 27 km long and about 90% of it is ... but because understanding why the mass of the electron, which the Higgs boson is responsible for, has that particular ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle29d
The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago
The accelerator, built in 1949 on the UChicago campus on 56th ... of one of the two experiments of the Large Hadron Collider which discovered the Higgs boson. Prof. Yau Wah agreed: “For decades, ...
CERN tests world's most powerful particle accelerator - dubbed 'the Big Bang machine' - by smashing particles together at nearly 671 million miles per hour
The accelerator sits 300 feet underground at ... For example, the LHC allowed physicists to unearth the Higgs boson in 2012, ...
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Particle Accelerator
Hints of Higgs Boson Seen at LHC—Proof by Next Summer? Hints of Higgs Boson Seen at LHC—Proof by Next Summer? Read Densest Matter Created in Big-Bang Machine Densest Matter Created in Big-Bang ...
El País in English6d
Mark Thomson, physicist: ‘We are going to open a new window onto the universe that we haven’t had before’
The British scientist has been selected to lead the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, Europe’s CERN ...
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Peter Higgs obituary: the shy man who changed our understanding of the Universe
Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson. He came up with the revolutionary idea ...