Les collisions de particules de l'expérience LHCb mettent en évidence un phénomène inattendu dans le cadre du modèle standard. ©CERN

Est‑on en train de mettre à jour une nouvelle physique au CERN ? Pourquoi nous sommes prudemment optimistes

Si les observations récentes du CERN sont vraiment liées à une nouvelle physique, ce pourrait être la percée que les physiciens des particules attendent depuis longtemps.
And then it falls apart, a bit like this. brookhavenlab

Quirky quark combination creates exotic new particle

Since the spectacular discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the gigantic particle accelerator outside Geneva, have suffered a bit of a drought when it comes…
Spelling out the end? Claudia Marcelloni/CERN

Could the Higgs Nobel be the end of particle physics?

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work that explains why subatomic particles have mass. They predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, a fundamental…
Universe’s secrets are revealed in a dark corner in Switzerland. timtom.ch

LHC celebrates five years of not destroying the world

Five years ago, at breakfast time, the world waited anxiously for news from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The first nervy bunch of protons were due to be fired around the European…

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