LHC accelerates its first “atoms”
Lead atoms with a single remaining electron circulated in the Large Hadron Collider.
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Rise of the machines
Machine learning will become an even more important tool when scientists upgrade to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
The LHC-watcher’s field guide
These are the event displays of Large Hadron Collider physicists’ dreams.
New Higgs boson observations reveal clues on the nature of mass
From Scientific American, June 6, 2018: Fermilab’s Don Lincoln explains the significance of scientists’ first observation of the famous Higgs boson, responsible for imparting mass, interacting with the heaviest particle in the universe.
Waiting for a sign
Some scientists spend decades trying to catch a glimpse of a rare process. But with good experimental design and a lot of luck, they often need only a handful of signals to make a discovery.
Fermilab, United States contribute to major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider
A groundbreaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC. Fermilab is leading the U.S. contribution to the HL-LHC, in addition to building new components for the upgraded detector for the CMS experiment.
Fermilab develops forefront accelerator components for the High-Luminosity LHC
When complete, the HL-LHC will produce five to seven times more proton-proton collisions than the current LHC — thanks in part to important collider components contributed by Fermilab.
CERN scientists find link between Higgs boson, two top quarks
From UPI, June 4, 2018: Fermilab Deputy Director Joe Lykken says that “deeply understanding how the Higgs interacts with known particles could help lead us to physics beyond the Standard Model.”
World’s largest atom smasher could help explain where mass comes from
From Live Science, June 4, 2018: Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln writes about two new results on how scientists found the Higgs boson popping up along with the heaviest particle ever discovered. The results could help us better understand one of the most fundamental problems in physics — why matter has mass.
A boon for physicists: new insights into neutrino interactions
Physicists on the MicroBooNE collaboration at Fermilab have presented their first collection of science results at the international Neutrino 2018 conference in Germany.