How many new particles has the LHC discovered? The most widely known discovery is of course that of the Higgs boson. Less well known is the fact that, over the past 10 years, the LHC experiments have also found more than 50 new particles called hadrons. Coincidentally, the number 50 appears in the context of hadrons twice, as 2021 marks the…
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Scientists find first evidence of rare Higgs boson decay
Scientists have spotted the first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay, expanding our understanding of the strange quantum universe. Source: https://www.livescience.com/higgs-boson-rare-decay-discovered-lhc.html
ATLAS finds evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, scientists in the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been hard at work characterizing its properties and hunting down the diverse ways in which this ephemeral particle can decay. From the copious but experimentally challenging decay to b-quarks, to the exquisitely rare but low-background decay into four…
The first evidence of top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration, a large group of researchers from different institutes worldwide, has recently gathered the very first evidence of top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Their work, outlined in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, was based on lead-lead collision data gathered by the CMS particle detector, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). …
CERN is Making the Large Hadron Collider’s Data More Accessible
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will open up access to more data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. Under an updated policy, data will be released around five years after it’s collected and CERN hopes to release the full dataset publicly “by the close of the experiment concerned.” Core LHC collaborators ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb all endorsed the…
Upgrades yield increased cryogenic power at Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the coldest places on Earth. The 1.9 K (-271.3 °C) operating temperature of its main magnets is even lower than the 2.7 K (-270.5 °C) of outer space. To get the LHC to this temperature, 120 tons of liquid helium flow around a closed circuit in the veins of the accelerator. …
Higgs boson possibly caught in act of never-before-seen transformation
If the Higgs boson really is decaying into pairs of muons in the Large Hadron Collider, that’s a big deal for particle physics. Source: https://www.livescience.com/lhc-higgs-boson-decay-muon-pairs.html
What’s Missing From Oracle’s List of the 25 Greatest Java Apps Ever Written?
On the 25th anniversary of Java, Oracle’s director of developer content released a list of the 25 greatest Java apps ever written. This week they shared the responses it got. “The U.S. National Security Agency was secretly pleased we noticed its Ghidra binary decompilation tool…” The tenor of conversation was both positive and polite. That speaks volumes about the excellent character…
CERN’s Powerful New Linear Accelerator Fires Up Ahead of LHC Upgrade
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NewAtlas: After an almost two-year shutdown for repairs and upgrades, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is beginning to fire back up for its next phase of probing the mysteries of physics. Its newest particle accelerator, Linac 4, completed its first test run over the past few weeks, with the potential to provide much more…
ATLAS experiment finds evidence of spectacular four-top quark production
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN has announced strong evidence of the production of four top quarks. This rare Standard Model process is expected to occur only once for every 70 thousand pairs of top quarks created at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has proven extremely difficult to measure. …