The power of the Sun
It's only the hypernova that really harnesses the power of the Sun.…
luminosity
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Restarting the LHC: A timeline
CERN has announced the restart schedule of its flagship science "project", the Large Hadron Collider, that will see the giant machine return online in early 2015. I'd written about the u…
The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run - 2
I'd linked to a preprint paper [PDF] on arXiv a couple days ago that had summarized the search for Supersymmetry (Susy) from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I'd written to on…
LHC to re-awaken in 2015 with doubled energy, luminosity
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 10, 2012. -- After a successful three-year run that saw the discovery of a Higgs-boson-like particle in early 2012, the Large Hadron…
Gunning for the goddamned: ATLAS results explained
Here are some of the photos from the CERN webcast yesterday (July 4, Wednesday), with an adjoining explanation of the data presented in each one and what it signifies. This first image shows the data…