CERN Physicists Discover Heavier Cousin of Proton
Physicists from the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered a new kind of heavy…
One-in-10-billion particle decay event spotted by scientists at CERN
Researchers at CERN have just upgraded their understanding on one of the rarest particle processes ever observed, by…
CERN tests quantum microwire detectors for next-generation colliders
Researchers in the US have revealed that an emerging class of quantum sensors, called superconducting microwire single-photon detectors…
AI for Particle Physics: Searching for Anomalies
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies…
The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests
In the moments following the Big Bang, the extreme heat and pressure coerced matter into a goopy mix…
World’s largest particle accelerator heats thousands of homes in France
The world’s largest particle accelerator has been supplying heat to thousands of homes in France since mid-January, in…
Tech Billionaires Pledge $1 Billion to CERN for Future Circular Collider
Tech billionaires have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to help fund CERN’s Future Circular Collider,…
CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research whose main offices also straddle the border near Geneva, seeks to…
Nanotube design could shrink particle accelerators to hair-thin size
New research suggests that particle accelerators capable of generating intense, coherent X-rays, which are typically produced only at…
Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Scientists observe single top quark with W, Z bosons for first time
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every trillion proton collisions,…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…