Researchers announced three new exotic particles as the particle smasher restarts with unprecedented energy, further increasing the chance of discoveries.[Image: R. Gonzalez Suarez/CERN] BY Alex Pasternack5 minute read Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed t...
How long did it take to build the Large Hadron Collider? The origins of the LHC stretch all the way back to 1977, when Sir John Adams, the former director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), suggested building an underground tunnel that could accommodate a particle accel...
The Large Hadron Collider may soon uncover the secrets ofdark photons. Should we be scared? (Spoiler: no). Back in the summer of 2022, TikToklost its mindover news that the Large Hadron Collider — the particle collider run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) at a gia...
Since we don't know what dark matter is, the answer is: for every possible candidate for the dark matter there is a different strategy to search for it. People build giant detectors deep underground (to get away from all the other particles streaming through the environment around us) and ...
A. Martin. (1982), "What do we learn from proton-antiproton diffractive scattering at the CERN colliders", Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 15, 91,185-191.Martin, A. (1982) Z. Phys. C 15: pp. 185-185These values are defined by the condition that the ratio (dσ/d t ( s...
The Large Hadron Collider by numbers. I’ve always found the best way to try and explain the enormous magnitude of this machine is to look at the crazy numbers that describe how it works. LHC Grafitti The LHC is a particle accelerator built over the border of France and Switzerland. ...