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At 9 pm India time on April 7, physicists at an American research facility delivered a shot in the arm to efforts to find flaws in a powerful theory that explains how the building blocks of the univer…
Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics.…
The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acr…
Through an extraordinary routine, the most powerful machine built by humankind is slowly but surely gearing up for its relaunch in March 2015. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), straddling the national…
The CERN Council has elected a new Director-General to succeed the incumbent Rolf-Dieter Heuer. Fabiola Gianotti, who served as the ATLAS collaboration's spokesperson from 2009 to 2013 - a period…
Two years ago, physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider first announced the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, setting the high-energy physics community atwitter. And it was only a coupl…
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…
What do dark matter, Higgs bosons, the electron dipole moment, topological superconductors and quantum loops have in common? These are exotic entities that scientists have been using to solve some lon…
As scientists have progressed by leaps and bounds in making discoveries and confirming new ideas, they have been disappointed by how one of their favorite theories has been unable to post a positive status update in... years.…
A version of this article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on November 22, 2012. -- On November 12, at the first day of the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium at Kyoto, Japan, researchers pre…
The way ahead for particle physics seems dully lit after CERN's fourth-of-July firecracker. The Higgs announcement got everyone in the physics community excited - and spurred a frenzied submission…
This article, as written by me, appeared in print in The Hindu on July 5, 2012. -- The ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) collaboration at CERN has announced the sighting of a Higgs boson-like particl…