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Scientists Model the "Flicker" of Gluons in Subatomic Smashups

August 4, 2016

Model identifies fluctuations in the glue-like particles that bind quarks within protons as essential to explaining experimen...

After a Half Century, the Exotic Pentaquark Particle is Found

August 25, 2015

The pentaquark was detected at the LHC by scientists carrying out the "beauty" experiment

Pilot Project Helps Tackle Torrent of LHC's Full-Energy Collision Data

July 8, 2015

Workload handling software has broad potential to maximize use of available supercomputing resources.

LHC Experiments Back in Business at Record Energy

June 4, 2015

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data on June 3 for the first time in 27 months....

Two Large Hadron Collider Experiments First to Observe Rare Subatomic Process

May 14, 2015

Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland,...

U.S. Scientists Celebrate the Restart of the Large Hadron Collider

April 7, 2015

Earlier on April 5, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator began its second act. After two years of upgrades an...

The Wild West of Physics

January 26, 2015

The next frontier in physics may require teeny-tiny answers to big questions, and vice versa.

'Particle Fever' wins Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism

January 3, 2015

Documentary confirms existence of the 'God particle.'

It's Particle-Hunting Season!

December 1, 2014

NYU scientists launch Higgs Hunters project.

Amazing Instruments for Important Experiments

September 7, 2014

A century ago, physicists used a tabletop “cloud chamber” to explore the motion of otherwise invisible particles....

A Path Toward More Powerful Tabletop Accelerators

May 29, 2014

Laser light needn’t be as precise as previously thought to drive new breed of miniature particle accelerators, say Berk...

US Scientists Celebrate Nobel Prize for Higgs Discovery

October 8, 2013

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert ...

Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade

July 16, 2013

U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories – including Berkeley Lab - collaborate to build the new magnets CERN ne...

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