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“Boson, I presume?”, but not Higgs

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:53:01 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Researchers at Cern, working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this week say they have turned up a boson, a particle that carries force, although it is not the famously sought-after Higgs boson. The Chi-b (3P) appears likely to be the first sub-atomic particle found since the LHC went to work in [...]

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Collisions that changed the world (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:41:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ©2011 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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Cern-watchers hyped for Higgs Boson news

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:24:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The birth of the child called Higgs Boson might or might not be coming soon, depending on what media you follow, but today is in any event a big day at Cern in Geneva, when the suspension ends and we’ll all learn out what scientists are seeing, thanks to the LHC (Large [...]

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Cern faster than light neutrinos: not so, says second Italian group

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:48:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A group of scientists with Italy’s Gran Sasso research centre say their measurements of neutrinos sent by the Cern labs in Geneva indicate colleagues are mistaken in thinking these have travelled faster than the speed of light. They published their findings Saturday 19 November. Another group of Gran Sasso researchers, working south [...]

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Cern takes foot off the protons-protons pedal

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:14:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ended its 180-day 2011 proton run programme on the LHC (Large Hadron Collidor), Sunday evening 30 October. The proton-proton collisions have been providing data for research programmes. The Geneva-based organization is now preparing the LHC for four weeks of lead-ion running, “but in a new development [...]

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Family activities: Science Fair at CERN

Laila Rodriguez — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:31:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com From 10-15 October the Festival of Science takes place in Pays de Gex, neighbouring France and in CERN. On the occasion of the 100 years of Superconductivity. Several activities for kids and grown up are planned around this theme.

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Cern puts neutrinos in the spotlight

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:56:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Faster than a speeding bullet, faster even than the speed of light, neutrinos flying in beams sent through the Earth’s crust the 730km between Cern in Geneva and the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy are astonishing the world scientific community. Initial measurements of the neutrinos have given scientists startling results, showing them [...]

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Kids activities: European Researchers’ Night at Cern

Laila Rodriguez — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:02 +0000

GenevaLunch.com To celebrate the European Researchers’ Night, CERN is opening its doors to the public and inviting everyone, especially the youngsters (13-18), to look at science in a simple and entertaining manner.

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Higgs Boson hopes fading, says Cern

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:20:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The elusive Higgs-Boson particle is proving to be ghost-like, says Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Results from Cern’s Atlas and CMS projects were presented at the biannual Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India 22 August. Results of these collaborative projects using the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) “show that the [...]

Cern passes the 1 inverse femtobarn mark in runup to summer conferences

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:36:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVALUNCH – The race is on at Cern, the European Nuclear Research Centre in Geneva, to complete results on a number of experiments in time for the physics world’s major summer conferences, and Friday 17 June a landmark was reached that is encouraging researchers. “Today at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by [...]

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