World's largest particle smasher takes 2-year break: CERNIn particular, physicists are analysing the way it decays or transforms into other particles, to check the Standard Model's predictions.
India to play larger role as CERN looks for more Higgs-like particles: PhysicistArchana Sharma, a senior scientist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, said that CE...
'Madala boson' may help unlock dark matter mystery: ScientistsThe experiment was repeated last year and this year, after a two-and-a-half year shut-down of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, said...
World's most powerful atom smasher is heading out to the edge of physicsThis time around the LHC is kicking atoms and taking names as it hunts for answers to some of the most pressing questions in physics.
Two most dangerous numbers could signal the end of physicsAs particles swim through the Higgs field, they gain mass to eventually become the protons, neutrons, and electrons comprising all of the a...
How particle physics inspired Gilles Jobin to choreograph 'Quantum'Jobin was moved by the breadth and beauty of particle physics, and also witnessed the discovery and announcement of the Higgs boson.
China plans to build world's most powerful particle colliderThe facility, designed to smash subatomic particles together at enormous speed, will reportedly be at least twice the size of CERN.
New CERN discovery sheds more light on Higgs bosonThe ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at CERN have presented combined measurements of many of the particle's properties for the first time.
CERN's revamped Large Hadron Collider to restart this monthCERN expects to take till the end of May to reach collisions at the highest energy levels at 13 TEV--the highest ever for the LHC.
Physicists hoping to see exotic stuff when the Large Hadron Collider wakes up from slumberIn 2012, inside the LHC under the Alps Mountains, physicists raised the temperature to 5.5 trillion degrees centigrade by smashing together...
IIT Madras made full member of CMS experiment at CERNIt will get several opportunities in a large number of related technologies initiated and applied at the Switzerland-based organisation.
'God particle' could destroy the universe: Stephen HawkingAccording to Hawking, 72, at very high energy levels the Higgs boson, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could become un...
Proposed in 1960s, theoretical cousin of the Higgs Boson foundThe particle, which was first proposed in the 1960s, finally appeared at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, in 2012.
Over 10,000 people sign up for online Peter Higgs courseThe free seven-week course, titled 'The Discovery of the Higgs boson', is being run by the University of Edinburgh in UK.
God Particle: There's a fantastic connect between S N Bose's work & ours, says Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director General, CERN"We can't say yet that we discovered the 'God Particle'. We have discovered a new particle; we are sure about that," says Rolf-Dieter Heuer.
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An Indian and an Italian have been honoured by the adoption of their surnames by families of particles.
The God particleTop physicists have reportedly spent the last few days "experimentally drunk" on all things sub-atomic at a high energy physics conference ...