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Deep beneath the Alpine ski slopes, patient scientists are waiting to observe a rare radioactive decay that would make us rewrite the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Our panel of experts speculate on which of science’s biggest questions could be answered in the coming months.
Researchers working on the LHC have been struggling to find new particles lately. But the latest results suggest things may be about to change.
CERN’s huge particle accelerator has been switched back on after a two-year upgrade to continue its search for answers.
New results from the Large Hadron Collider further could help eliminate some theoretical possibilities for what lies beyond the standard model of particle physics.
Subatomic particles have shaped and continue to shape our universe but despite perfect predictions by physicists, the theory about unseen particles is still wrong.
For less than the cost of a single Typhoon jetfighter, the upgraded LHC will push our understanding of physics to the brink.
The giant Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s lab in Europe may be closed until 2015 but experiments will still be run there in the second half of this year on much smaller synchrotrons that examined the decay…
Last week, the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, showed evidence for the first time that a Higgs boson decays into a pair of tau particles. It is one of the crucial results…
This expert reaction comes via the Australian Science Media Centre: CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) has this evening announced that the long-sought Higgs boson probably exists, after…
Physicists this afternoon announced they have found evidence for a particle considered the biggest missing piece in the standard model of matter, in what is one of the most significant scientific developments…
A recent announcement by the research director of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) indicated the Higgs boson – often referred to as the “God particle” – has been excluded at 95% confidence…
The “traditional” beauty of theoretical physics is its equations. If we want to describe something, or the way something behaves, we can write down a relation between some properties we think that thing…
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Particle physicist, University of Cambridge
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Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Physics, Head of Department, Lancaster University
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, Adelaide University
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Doctoral Student, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Physics, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Manchester
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Professor of High Energy Physics, The University of Melbourne
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Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Particle Physics, UCL
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Research Professor and Director of the International Institute for Accelerator Applications, University of Huddersfield
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Reader in Particle Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics Informatics, Brunel University of London
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Marie Curie Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London