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LHC’s newest data: a victory for the Standard Model, defeat for new physics
From Forbes, Dec. 2, 2016: The latest search results released by the CMS collaboration rule out two classes of hypothetical particles, gluinos and squarks, below about 1.4 TeV in energy.
LHC smashes old collision records
The Large Hadron Collider is now producing about a billion proton-proton collisions per second.
The ICHEP race condition
What’s it like to be part of an experiment collaboration in the weeks and days before a big announcement?
LHC bump fades with more data
Possible signs of new particle seem to have washed out in an influx of new data.
Higgs boson resurfaces in LHC data
The Higgs appeared in the second run of the LHC about twice as fast as it did in the first.
Q&A: The future of CERN
CERN’s Director General is enthusiastic about the progress and prospects of the LHC research program, but it’s not the only thing on her plate.
LEGO version of Large Hadron Collider picks up speed
From Gizmodo, July 26, 2016: Ever wanted to build a particle accelerator in your basement? Well if one University of Liverpool PhD student gets his way, you may soon be able to do that – with LEGO.
LHCb discovers family of tetraquarks
Researchers found four new particles made of the same four building blocks.
The Higgs-shaped elephant in the room
Higgs bosons should mass-produce bottom quarks. So why is it so hard to see it happening?





