How to make a Higgs boson April 10, 2018 | Sarah Charley It doesn’t seem like collisions of particles with no mass should be able to produce the “mass-giving” boson, the Higgs. But every other second at the LHC, they do.
The room where it happens March 30, 2018 | Sarah Charley Symmetry goes inside the CERN Control Center on restart day.
Starting from the bottom March 20, 2018 | Sarah Charley The bottom quark may lead physicists on a path to new discoveries.
The secret life of Higgs bosons February 20, 2018 | Sarah Charley Are these mass-giving particles hanging out with dark matter?
LHC data: how it’s made November 28, 2017 | Sarah Charley In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.
CERN alumna turned deep-sea explorer October 26, 2017 | Sarah Charley Grace C. Young is fascinated by fundamental questions about realms both quantum and undersea.
Scientists observe first verified neutron star collision October 16, 2017 | Sarah Charley For the first time, experiments have seen both light and gravitational waves released by a single celestial crash.
Xenon takes a turn in the LHC October 13, 2017 | Sarah Charley For the first time, the Large Hadron Collider is accelerating xenon nuclei for experiments.
When was the Higgs actually discovered? July 5, 2017 | Sarah Charley The announcement on July 4 was just one part of the story. Take a peek behind the scenes of the discovery of the Higgs boson.