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CERN's proposed 100-km particle accelerator would run rings around the LHC

Darren Quick January 15, 2019

CERN, the European research organization responsible for operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has released a report outlining a proposed particle accelerator that would be nearly four times as long and 10 times as powerful as its predecessor.

The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would have a circumference of 100 km (62 mi), dwarfing ...

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Large Hadron Collider: 10 years of pushing the frontiers of physics

Michael Irving September 15, 2018

The Large Hadron Collider has been responsible for some of the most important breakthroughs in scientific history, most notably the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2013. New Atlas is celebrating the 10-year anniversary with a look back at its achievements and what it could help solve in the future.

The Large Hadron Collider turned 10 this week

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This is what it sounds like when protons collide

Michael Franco May 27, 2016

Apparently, if you take the data coming from one of the LHC's collision chambers and fool with it a bit, you can actually listen to music being made by protons colliding. That's exactly what a new project called the Quantizer has done – and you can listen in.

The inside of the ATLAS collider chamber at CERN

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Why didn't the universe collapse after the Big Bang? It's a question of gravity

Richard Moss November 19, 2014

Current knowledge of physics suggests the universe should have collapsed into nothing after the Big Bang, but new research makes a case for interactions between gravity and Higgs particles providing a stabilizing effect.

New research suggests that during the Big Bang, the curving of space-time – gravity – held ...

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New evidence strengthens Higgs boson finding

Anthony Wood June 29, 2014

Fresh evidence has come to light supporting the theory that the particle detected at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 is indeed the elusive Higgs boson. The work confirms that the potential Higgs boson does exhibit the decay characteristics that would be expected under the Standard Model.

An international research collaboration has confirmed that the potential Higgs boson does exhibit the decay characteristics ...

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Nobel Prize in Physics won by Higgs boson theorists

Brian Dodson October 8, 2013

Following a last-minute delay, physicists Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were today jointly awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent invention of the Higgs mechanism, which supplies fundamental particles with mass.

The Nobel Medal awaits Francois Englert and Peter Higgs, winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in ...

Architecture Feature

ATLAS: At the crossroads of art and science

Brian Dodson August 31, 2013

The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The LHC's ATLAS detector, one of two that discovered the Higgs boson, has a control building adorned with a magnificent mural. How it happened is a fascinating glimpse at the crossroads of art and science.

Artist Josef Kristofoletti designed and executed this magnificent mural adorning the ATLAS detector building of the ...

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2012: A year in technology

New Atlas Team December 31, 2012

Gizmag's look back at the technological highlights of 2012.

Artist's impression of a proton-proton collision producing a pair of gamma rays (yellow) in the ATLAS ...

Research Watch Feature

Is it or isn't it? The Higgs boson story

Brian Dodson July 16, 2012

The massive boson recently discovered at CERN may or may not be the Higgs boson - we're going to try and clarify the situation for you.

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New boson discovered, probably Higgs

James Holloway July 4, 2012

Numbers are yet to be crunched and the data analysis goes on, but one thing appears to be certain: scientists at CERN have discovered a new boson, and it's probably the Higgs particle.

A proton-proton collision observed by CMS produces two high-energy photons - behavior consistent with the decay ...