Collaboration builds fantastical stories from nuggets of truth

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Collaboration builds fantastical stories from nuggets of truth

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What happens when you pair CERN scientists with science fiction writers to create short stories inspired by particle physics?

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Whatever happened to the theory of everything?

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A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go?

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LHC experiments see four top quarks

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The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.

Kétévi Assamagan pays it forward

Kétévi Assamagan’s contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron Collider.

What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe

The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.

How to do particle physics in a climate emergency

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Scientists in the particle physics community are bringing environmental and climate issues to the table in discussions about future research.

Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed

From CERN, Jan. 20, 2023: CERN is celebrating the completion of civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. This will improve its performance by increasing the number of particle collisions and boosting the potential for discoveries. The HL-LHC is expected to start operating in 2029.

Energy consumption, cost considerations could shape future of accelerator R&D

A recent report underscores the importance of energy consumption and cost to decisions about future large-scale particle accelerator projects.

First-time ATLAS measurement provides new look at Higgs

For the first time, physicists have a statistically significant measurement of the joint polarization of W and Z bosons.

Is particle physics at a dead end?

From Prospect, August 29, 2022: The LHC is back running now colliding more intense beams, generating more collisions and collecting more data to sift. Fermilab’s Muon g-2 results offered an intriguing hint about muons that the LHC can follow up on by looking for new particles directly and the behavior it should induce in particles we know about.