Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Hadron Collider? Nov 11, 2009
Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird ... Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Hadron Collider ... An engineer works on CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2007 Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty. (Time.com)
Bird beats big bang with bit of baguette Nov 9, 2009
Baguette Crumb Halts Large Hadron Collider ... The tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider ... As a result, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had to postpone their plans last week to emulate the universe's Big Bang. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
* World News Quick Take Nov 8, 2009
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a bird dropped a bit of baguette into the machine, causing it to overheat. CERN, the European particle physics lab, launched the collider on Sept. 10 last year ... Tests on Monday were stopped after the power supply to the collider was cut. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Large Hadron Collider Back On (Universe Still Okay) Oct 30, 2009
March 22, 2007: Magnet core of the largest superconducting solenoid magnet at European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider. March 22, 2007: Magnet core of the largest superconducting solenoid magnet at European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider ... After starting with a bang, which promptly turned into a whimper, scientists quietly powered up the Large Hadron Collider for a second time. (Fox News)
'Big bang' experiment is hacked Oct 26, 2009
Part of the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was hacked into as the world's most powerful physics experiment got under way. A group calling itself the "Greek Security Team" hacked into a computer connected to the system last Wednesday. (BBC News -- Technology)
Galileo upended science Oct 25, 2009
Some scientists say that we may be on the edge of yet another such turning point as the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), gears up to search for a theoretical sub-atomic particle that could explain how matter acquires mass. "Dark matter" and "dark energy" deemed to account for 96 percent of the cosmos are other theorised puzzles. (iAfrica.com)
With stimulus funds SU's physics department avoids research cuts Oct 22, 2009
The money will be used to allow the group to continue working with international scientists on the European Organization for Nuclear Research's particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider - which has made international headlines for its research. "What it comes down to it, does the United States want to be a leader or a follower in science? And I think that we want to lead, so it is critical to take on these endeavors," said Steven Blusk, SU psychics professor and member of the Particle... (Daily Orange, NY)
Collider gearing up for bizarre test Oct 19, 2009
More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world's biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again ... No, I'm talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future ... A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Crazy ideas about life collide with particles of truth Oct 18, 2009
Fish so small they need the awesome power of the Large Hadron Collider to find them. The collider, you may recall, is a 29-kilometre underground race track built near Geneva to discover how the universe came to be ... When the collider opened last September, the hope was it might lead to the detection of the Higgs boson - the so-called God particle. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Does this make your head hurt? Oct 17, 2009
Two physicists recently suggested that the Large Hadron Collider may have malfunctioned because a Higgs boson particle, travelling back in time from a future experiment, wrecked the machine ... I loved this article, it's just so funny, from the reason why the Hadron Collider didn't work to the descriptive words of what will happen to your body when we can eventually teleport something bigger than an atom. (BBC News -- UK)
LHC gets colder than deep space Oct 17, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has once again become one of the coldest places in the Universe ... The cool-down is an important milestone ahead of the collider's scheduled re-start in the latter half of November ... The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the Large Hadron Collider will recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang. (BBC News -- Europe)
How a French Physicist Became a Terrorism Suspect Oct 15, 2009
Reports in the French and British media initially focused on Hicheur's scientific work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which has a gigantic particle collider straddling the France-Switzerland border ... Neither was true: CERN says it has nothing on its property that could be used to build a nuclear bomb, and Hicheur's limited security access didn't allow him close enough to the main collider to launch an attack on it. (Time.com)
* Charges filed against al-Qaeda physicist Oct 14, 2009
AL-QAEDA LINK: Officials said the suspect, who works on the Large Hadron Collider, has acknowledged corresponding with a north African group that targets Algerian forces AP , PARIS Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009, Page 6 ... The 32-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, who works on the Large Hadron Collider, is suspected of involvement with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a North African group that targets Algerian government forces and sometimes attacks foreigners ... The physicist is one of more... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
French Physicist Faces Terror Charges Oct 13, 2009
The LHC (large hadron collider) is seen in its tunnel at CERN,a European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, May 31, 2007 ... The 32-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, who works on the Large Hadron Collider, is suspected of involvement with North African group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ... The well-educated physicist is one of more than 7,000 scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland. (CBS News -- World)
Scientist on French terror charge Oct 13, 2009
Cern's particle collider aims to recreate conditions of the Big Bang ... The researcher had been working on an experiment at the Cern laboratory which houses the giant Large Hadron Collider, designed to recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang. (BBC News -- Europe)
Physicist working at CERN arrested Oct 12, 2009
The collider is currently set to restart in late November. . (Scientific American)
Physicist held in France over 'terror links' Oct 10, 2009
PARIS, France (CNN) -- A man arrested in France on suspicion of links to terrorist organizations is a physicist who was working with the agency known for being home of the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's most powerful particle accelerator ... LHCb stands for the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment. (CNN -- World)
Algerian held at French nuclear site Oct 10, 2009
Cern's particle collider aims to recreate conditions of the Big Bang ... Cern's Large Hadron Collider is aiming to recreate conditions of the Big Bang. (BBC News -- Africa)
Nuclear Physicist Arrested in France Oct 10, 2009
The LHC (large hadron collider) is seen in its tunnel at CERN,a European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, May 31, 2007 ... The projects are aimed at making discoveries about the makeup of matter when the Large Hadron Collider - the world largest atom smasher - starts collecting data later this year or early next year ... The European laboratory has been working for years to build the collider. (CBS News -- World)
Physicists Seek To Keep Next-generation Colliders In One Piece Oct 10, 2009
In his paper 'Wake field Suppression in High Gradient Linacs for Lepton Linear Colliders', accelerator physicist Professor Roger Jones examines research into the suppression of these wake fields ... Prof Jones said: "Wake fields have been carefully controlled and suppressed in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. However, physicists are now looking at what comes after the LHC. "An electron-positron collider is the natural successor to the LHC and it turns out the wake fields are much more... (Science Daily)
Just A Yoctosecond: Shortest Flashes From Ultra-hot Matter Oct 7, 2009
Such a state of matter can nowadays be realized in modern colliders ... 25, 2005) The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- a giant atom smasher located at the U.S. Department of Energy s Brookhaven National. (Science Daily)
Just imagine: Fantasy books for younger readers Oct 5, 2009
At the same time a quartet of would-be suburban sorcerers does some amateur demon-summoning in a basement and open up a portal to hell, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland witness an inexplicable quantum anomaly. The only person who suspects there might be a connection between these two events is an intelligent yet misunderstood boy named Samuel Johnson (with his faithful canine companion Boswell, of course). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
LHC gets warning system upgrade Sep 30, 2009
Engineers hope an early warning system being installed at the Large Hadron Collider could prevent incidents of the kind which shut the machine last year ... Officials aim to re-start the collider, known as the LHC, in mid-November ... This beam test would involve only parts of the collider, rather than the whole "ring". (BBC News -- Technology)
Collider "not going to become a white elephant" Sep 11, 2009
September should have been a happy first anniversary for the physicists pulling subatomic secrets out of the Large Hadron Collider ... LARGE HADRON COLLIDER. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
were collecting too much data Sep 1, 2009
The next generation of experiments, like the Large Hadron Collider, above, a powerful particle accelerator beneath the border of Switzerland and France, will be even more data-intensive ... A scientist studies computer screens at the Large Hadron Collider as the proton smasher was switched on last September ... A new proton smasher near Geneva called the Large Hadron Collider is supposed to produce 15 million gigabytes of data annually -- enough to fill more than 1. (Harper's Magazine)
NASA scientist's books theorize on origin of the universe Aug 23, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider will contribute more knowledge when it comes online, he says. Calle describes models of the universe that are favored now. (Florida Today)
Strong Effect Of The Weak Interaction: Exploring The Standard Model Of Physics Without The High-energy Collider Aug 13, 2009
The finding of such a large effect in Ytterbium poses an exciting opportunity to use tabletop atomic physics techniques as part of sensitive searches for new physics that complement ongoing efforts at the world's high-energy colliders. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Particle Collider Sparks New 'Black Hole' Fears Aug 9, 2009
Large Hadron Collider Sparks New 'Black Hole' Concerns ... The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one of the detectors on the Large Hadron Collider, weighs more than 12,000 tons ... The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one of the detectors on the Large Hadron Collider, weighs more than 12,000 tons. (Fox News)
Large Hadron Collider To Run At 3.5 TeV For Early Part Of 2009-2010 Run, Rising Later Aug 8, 2009
Large Hadron Collider To Run At 3 ... Large Hadron Collider To Run At 3 ... 7, 2009) CERN's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3. (Science Daily)
Damaged collider to restart at half energy Aug 8, 2009
Get a look inside the caverns and tunnels that house the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds biggest atom-smasher ... GENEVA - When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would destroy the world ... The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, said Friday it would restart the collider in November at half power under pressure from scientists eager to conduct experiments to unlock secrets of the universe.... (MSNBC -- Environment)
Particle collider: World's largest machine Aug 8, 2009
Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine ... Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine ... GENEVA: When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. (India Times)
Particle Collider: Key Tool or Black Hole? Aug 8, 2009
Particle Collider: Key Tool or Black Hole ... Particle Collider: Key Tool or Black Hole ... The Large Hadron Collider (CBS). (CBS News)
Giant particle collider fizzles, adding to mysteries of life Aug 5, 2009
After 15 years and $9 billion, and a showy "switch-on" ceremony last September, the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, has to yet collide any particles at all ... But scientists say it could be years, if ever, before the collider runs at full strength, stretching out the time it should take to achieve the collider's main goals, like producing a particle known as the Higgs boson thought to be responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass, or... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Beth Cooper doesnt deserve your love Jul 10, 2009
We are told that the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland hopes to unlock various mysteries of the physical universe, including what it is that bonds atoms to one another. (Forgive me if Im getting this wrong, science people; physics was my one F in high school. (MSNBC -- News)
New Exotic Particle Observed Jun 30, 2009
Combing through almost half a quadrillion (1000 billion) proton-antiproton collisions produced by Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider, the CDF collaboration isolated 16 examples in which the particles emerging from a collision revealed the distinctive signature of the Omega-sub-b. Once produced, the Omega-sub-b travels a fraction of a millimeter before it decays into lighter particles. (Science Daily)
CERN reports on progress toward LHC restart Jun 23, 2009
At the 151st session of the CERN Council today, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) remains on schedule for a restart this autumn, albeit about 2-3 weeks later than originally foreseen. Following the incident of 19 September 2008 that brought the LHC to a standstill, a great deal of work has been done to understand the causes of the incident and ensure that a similar incident cannot happen again. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Vatican visits CERN's Big Bang machine Jun 6, 2009
Physicist Michio Kaku discusses the worries and wonders that surround the Large Hadron Collider ... Get a look inside the caverns and tunnels that house the Large Hadron Collider. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter May 29, 2009
The technology designed and engineered for paradigm-shifting experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is some of the most advanced in the world and as particle physics technology moves forward so technology for industries as varied as biotechnology, energy and communications also rapidly progresses. The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are today, Thursday, 28 May, launching a new report, 'Particle physics it matters' to... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
What are Electron Volts May 28, 2009
High energy particle physicists use particle accelerators, such as the large hadron collider, to accelerate elementary particles to very high energies. Even when traveling near the speed of light, subatomic particles have such small masses that the physicists use, such as joules, are way to large. (Suite101.com)
Astrophysicist eager to see Hubble repaired May 25, 2009
CERN's new Large Hadron Collider based in Switzerland will be used to study dark matter and dark energy. With no further repairs scheduled for the Hubble, NASA plans to launch the new James Webb Telescope in 2014. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Real science takes a back seat in movie's plot May 15, 2009
Antimatter, the God particle, CERN's Large Hadron Collider and the enormous energy that particle-antiparticle annihilation would produce serve as golden plot nuggets in "Angels & Demons." ... The plot involves a theft of antimatter from CERN's Large Hadron Collider -- which accelerates particles at high speed, then collides them to produce particles never seen before ... Other questions involve Brown's portrayal of CERN, the particle laboratory in Switzerland whose Large Hadron Collider and its... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Sanford Lab scientists take on 'Angels & Demons' May 13, 2009
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology and the Sanford Underground Laboratory will sponsor a lecture at the Elks Theatre, one in a series to tell the world about the real science of antimatter, the Large Hadron Collider and particle physics research ... In the new movie "Angels & Demons," part of the film focuses on an apparent plot to destroy the Vatican using antimatter made at the Large Hadron Collider and stolen from the European particle physics laboratory CERN.... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Austria to pull out of CERN May 12, 2009
CERN has created the biggest machine ever -- a particle collider under the French-Swiss border outside Geneva which aims to recreate the conditions of the "Big Bang," the origin of the universe ... Austrian physicists are stunned over the country's plan, just months before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. (Xinhuanet, China)
The Day The Universe Froze May 11, 2009
In addition, the micro-explosions created by the largest particle colliders should excite the dark energy field and these excitations could appear as exotic, never-seen-before sub-atomic particles ... At the same time, new particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider nearing operation in Switzerland, can produce energies theoretically large enough to excite the quintessence field and these excitations could appear as new exotic particles, the researchers say. (Science Daily)
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing May 9, 2009
Nimbus has already been deployed successfully to support the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. When researchers there needed to turn the massive amounts of data they had generated into viable simulations for an international conference, they used Nimbus to create virtual machines that were run through commercial cloud computing providers. (EurekAlert!)
Detector to peer deep into the 'Big Bang' May 5, 2009
7 billion years ago when the Big Bang created temperatures 10 billion times hotter than the world's most powerful particle collider--the Large Hadron Collider. Besides attempting to confirm the inflation theory, whereby gravitational waves created during the Big Bang continue to leave telltale polarization in cosmic background radiation, the experiment could also provide insights into different unified theories of physics such as The theory maintains that the universe is based on an underlying... (EETimes)
Atomic physics study sets new limits on hypothetical new particles May 1, 2009
"It is remarkable that the low-cost atomic precision experiments and theory are capable of constraining new physics at the level competitive to colliders," Derevianko said. He has been able to define new limits without needing something like a $6 billion Large Hadron Collider, an enormous particle accelerator in Europe that is not yet fully operational ... In combination with the results of high-energy collider experiments, our work confirms the predicted energy dependence (or ``running'') of... (EurekAlert!)
Nimbus And Cloud Computing Meet STAR Production Demands Apr 15, 2009
15, 2009) The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider ... The Nimbus team at Argonne has been collaborating with STAR researchers at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for a few years ... A view of one of the first full-energy collisions between gold ions at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, as... (Science Daily)
Symmetry math sheds new light on fundamental physics Mar 27, 2009
The work will help guide future particle accelerator experiments, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It also provides clues about the physical mechanism which caused the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the Universe. . (EurekAlert!)
Cloud Computing Helps Scientists Run High Energy Physics Experiments Mar 26, 2009
Scientists working on A Large Ion Collider Experiment, also known as the ALICE collaboration, are conducting heavy ion simulations at CERN. They have been developing and debugging compute jobs on a collection of internationally distributed resources, managed by a scheduler called AliEn ... "Fortunately, the CernVM project had developed a way to provide virtual machines that can be used as a base supporting the production environment for all four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN... (Science Daily)
Holy photons Mar 25, 2009
Originated in work conducted by Max Planck and Albert Einstein at start of 20th Century They discovered that light comes in discrete packets, or quanta, which we call photons The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle says certain features of subatomic particles like momentum and position cannot be known precisely at the same time Gaps remain, like attempts to find the 'God Particle' that scientists hope to spot in the Large Hadron Collider. It is required to give other particles mass. (BBC News -- Science)
New Experiments Constrain Higgs Mass Mar 23, 2009
The latest analysis of data from the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab now excludes a significant fraction of the allowed Higgs mass range established by earlier measurements. Those experiments predict that the Higgs particle should have a mass between 114 and 185 GeV/c2. (Science Daily)
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles Mar 18, 2009
After a false start in 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the glitzy new atom smasher at CERN (the European laboratory for particle physics) near Geneva, is finally due to start its experiments this October. The LHC may or may not end up spewing out dark matter, mini black holes or other exotica. (Scientific American)
Scientists on trail of physics' Holy Grail Mar 17, 2009
They are hoping that their collider, the Tevatron, may yet tweeze a Higgs from the flotsam of atomic debris before the Large Hadron Collider, the Europeans' new, balky collider near Geneva, manages to find it ... That collider, operated by the European consortium known as CERN, is many months from operation and many more months from producing scientific results. (Boston Globe)
Physicists closer to finding 'God Particle' Mar 15, 2009
Physicists were hopeful that the particle could be found with Europe's Big Bang atom-smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. But the Collider was shut down just days after it was turned on in September 2008 at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) below the Franco-Swiss border ... Using Fermilab's Tevatron collider, researchers were able to "carve out a section in the middle of this range and establish that it cannot have a mass in between 160 and 170 GeV/c2.". (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Fermilab Provides More Constraints on the Elusive Higgs Boson Mar 14, 2009
The hunt for the long-sought-after particle continues in the U.S. as the Large Hadron Collider in Europe lies dormant ... "This is a very interesting time in particle physics, because we have this Standard Model, which explains everything we've observed and everything we know about for the last 30 years with no significant deviations. And, yet, we know that the Standard Model can't be the whole story of nature," says , and a member of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration, one of... (Scientific American)
Twenty years of the world wide web: What's the score? Mar 13, 2009
In the late 1980s, CERN was planning one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. (This opened, and then shut down again because of a leak in its cooling system, in September last year. As the first few lines of the original proposal put it, Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC era end with the question Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project. (The Economist)
Rare Single Top Quark Discovered In Collider Mar 10, 2009
8, 2008) The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab in Illinois. . (Science Daily)
Research team co-led by UC Riverside physicist observes production of single-top-quarks Mar 10, 2009
A group of 28 scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, co-led by UC Riverside's , has made the first observation of the production of single top quarks an observation that resulted from proton-antiproton collisions measured by the DZero detector in Fermilab's Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle collider. Previously, top quarks had only been observed when produced by the strong interaction between tiny elementary particles. (EurekAlert!)
Brown physicists play key role in single top quark discovery Mar 10, 2009
" Brown University joined institutions from around the world to announce on Monday the discovery of the single top quark through the weak nuclear force, shown in this diagram. Brown graduate student Monica Pangilinan is a member of the team that made the single top quark discovery. Brown physicists David Cutts, one of the founding members of the DZero experiments, and Greg Landsberg also are active in the DZero tests. The DZero group comprises 600 physicists from 90 institutions in 18 countries.... (EurekAlert!)
Ultracold Gas Mimics Ultrahot Plasma Mar 7, 2009
The plasma was formed at a colossal 2 million degrees Kelvin temperatures within Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The gas cloud was cooled to only. (Science Daily)
PHYSICS: Fermilab, European accelerator race for glory Mar 2, 2009
Fermilab, and scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research manning the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, are in a race to find evidence of the particle nicknamed "God Particle" because it is believed to give mass to matter that makes up the universe ... CHICAGO ---- So, does the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron accelerator have a shot against the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland ... Just months ago, it appeared that evidence of the Higgs would be found by... (North County Times)
'Doomsday Machine' Suddenly Has American Rival Feb 25, 2009
CHICAGO So, does the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron accelerator have a shot against the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland ... Just months ago, it appeared that evidence of the Higgs would be found by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) manning the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) not those at Fermilab. (Fox News)
Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed Feb 23, 2009
These magnets are used in MRI scanners, to 'float' the MagLev train, and to steer the proton beam of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Envisaged future applications of superconductors exist also in ultrafast electronic devices and in quantum computing. . (EurekAlert!)
Race for 'God particle' heats up Feb 18, 2009
Finding the Higgs is a major goal of Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). But the US Fermilab says the odds of its Tevatron accelerator detecting the famed particle first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best. (BBC News)
