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 ... Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with such titles as "Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal" and "Search... (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 ... According to Nielsen, this cancellation was an "anti-miracle''. He and Ninomiya said the Large Hadron Collider would fail before it opened last year. They have even proposed a giant game of chance to see if the quest to find the Higgs is worth pursuing. If the outcome is unlikely enough - say, pulling a card that said "no" among several million saying "yes" - then forget it. Predictably, other physicists have... (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 most powerful physics experiment ever built, the Large Hadron Collider will recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang ... Particle beams have already been brought "to the door" of the Large Hadron Collider. (BBC News -- Europe)
* 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)
Scientist on French terror charge Oct 13, 2009
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. It is located on the Swiss-French border. (BBC News -- Europe)
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)
Algerian held at French nuclear site Oct 10, 2009
Cern's Large Hadron Collider is aiming to recreate conditions of the Big Bang. The organisation confirmed that a physicist working at its site had been arrested "under suspicion of links to terrorist organisations", and said it was helping the French police with their investigation. (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. (CBS News -- World)
Physicists Seek To Keep Next-generation Colliders In One Piece Oct 10, 2009
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 severe in these linear collider machines. "Indeed, acceleration of particles to ultra-relativistic energies over several tens of kilometres in the proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), for example,... (Science Daily)
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)
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. The helium leak last September, which resulted from a "faulty splice" between magnets, has delayed the start of science operations by more than a year. (BBC News -- Technology)
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)
HINGHAM TRIBUTE: Jim Overbecks scientific life Aug 14, 2009
As a vice president of Data Ledger Inc., he developed business software, before becoming an engineer, first for Hadron Inc. s Laser Microfiling Inc. unit, and later for Hadron s Korad division. From 1975 to 1981 Overbeck was engineering manager for Boston-based Teradyne Inc., and designed the Teradyne M118, the first laser trimmer used to repair analog memory integrated circuits. (Hingham Journal, MA)
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)
Particle collider: World's largest machine Aug 8, 2009
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. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole ... But spokesman James Gillies said they would have to shut down yet again next year to finish repairs so that the Large Hadron Collider can operate at full energy of 7 trillion electron volts, seven times higher than any other machine in the world. (India Times)
Particle Collider: Key Tool or Black Hole? Aug 8, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider (CBS) ... Steve Kroft descends into the Large Hadron Collider some call it the "big bang machine" - that took billions of dollars and 9,000 physicists to build in the hope it will provide valuable insights ... See how the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland operates. (CBS 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)
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 ... 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. (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)
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
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. "It is a black day for Austrian science," says Christian Fabjan, who heads the Institute for High Energy Physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. (Xinhuanet, China)
The Day The Universe Froze May 11, 2009
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. The research was funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy. (Science Daily)
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
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 ... Our raised bound on the Z' masses carves out a lower-energy part of the discovery reach of the Large Hadron Collider. (EurekAlert!)
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
"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 including ALICE," said Harutyunyan, a graduate student at State Engineering University of Armenia and member of Yerevan Physics Institute ALICE group ... 3, 2008) When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics... (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
22, 2009) The territory where the Higgs boson may be found continues to shrink. 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. (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. "It is possible we will see good evidence for the Higgs before the LHC has enough data to do the same," said Jacobo Konigsberg, a University of Florida physicist working at Fermilab. (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. (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 ... Conway says the extension of the excluded Higgs masses at Fermilab is "a really exciting development." All the same, he thinks the Higgs, if it is to be found, will be first seen at the more powerful Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, which is after last September. (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)
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!)
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)
PU researchers figure in another LHC project Feb 17, 2009
CHANDIGARH: Close on the heels of contribution from professors of department of physics, PU in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, worlds largest and highest energy particle accelerator at Geneva, Switzerland, three research scholars of PUs physics department have been involved in another international project called Zeus, which will facilitate studies on LHC.. This is for the first time that students of Panjab University will be carrying out some part of their PhD programme abroad. (Times of India)
Officials set timetable for getting particle collider back on track Feb 17, 2009
Vowing to make up for lost time and lost data, officials at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, have announced a new schedule for starting up the laboratory's Large Hadron Collider next September and keeping it running for a full year ... The signature quest of the Hadron collider, a particle known as the Higgs boson that in theory imbues other particles with mass, will probably take longer, because it is harder to make. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
LHC: Guide introduction Feb 17, 2009
The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the Large Hadron Collider will re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the universe itself. Find out more about the LHC with this BBC News guide, starting at the top of the page with an introduction from Science Correspondent David Shukman. (BBC News -- Science)
Collider halted until next year Feb 17, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. The incident on 19 September caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak out into the experiment's 27km-long tunnel. (BBC News -- Science)
An antimatter bomb?! Its just a movie Feb 13, 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 ... One of the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, known as LHCb, aims to analyze the differences between particles of ordinary matter and their antimatter mirror images to address the mystery of the matter-antimatter imbalance. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Large Hadron Collider relaunch timetable pushed to September Feb 12, 2009
Large Hadron Collider ... The new timetable will see the Large Hadron Collider restart its operations in September of this year with actual particle collisions expected to begin in October. (The Tech Herald)
"Big Bang" Machine's Restart Delayed Again Feb 11, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider (CBS) ... Steve Kroft descends into the Large Hadron Collider some call it the "big bang machine" - that took billions of dollars and 9,000 physicists to build in the hope it will provide valuable insights ... (CNET) The Large Hadron Collider could be restarted at the end of September -- a year after the world's largest particle accelerator was knocked off line by an electrical malfunction. (CBS News)
NDP reintroduces greenhouse gas reduction bill Feb 11, 2009
The group in charge of the Large Hadron Collider have pushed the giant physics experiment's startup back another six months to the end of September. A surgical technique to reattach nerves in amputees may help them to gain better control of artificial arms. (CBC.ca)
Hadron repairs cost 14m Feb 10, 2009
Hadron Collider repairs cost 14m. The 5bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is intended to smash protons - one of the building blocks of matter - into each other ... Repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will cost almost 14m ($21m) and "realistically" take until at least next summer to start back up. (BBC News -- Science)
Scientist's promise on collider Feb 10, 2009
Dr Lyn Evans, 63, from the Cynon Valley town of Aberdare, set off the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) border with a click of his computer mouse. There have been some warnings the experiment on Wednesday could wreak disaster on the entire world. (BBC News -- Science)
