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Part of the resonance ionization laser ion source (RILIS) at ISOLDE

May 15, 2013 04:08 PM EDT

Rarest Element on Earth Measured For First Time at CERN

Scientists artificially created isotopes of the radioactive element astatine, which only occurs in trace amounts naturally, in the CERN laboratory to analyze it. The international team of physicists at the radioactive-beam facility ISOLDE now succeeded to measure the ionization potential of the rare...

proton-lead ion collision LHCb detector 2013

Apr 25, 2013 12:40 AM EDT

Watch This Awesome CERN Animation of Big Data Behind the Super Collider

An impressive infographic style animation shows the vast computer power, including a globe spanning network of data centers, that is needed to filter through the enormous amount of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 on ISS

Apr 03, 2013 12:13 PM EDT

Antimatter and Dark Matter Hunters Publish First Results of Space Experiment AMS

The antimatter hunter AMS-2, a module on the International Space Station, is searching for the missing pieces of our Universe. The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter, hinting at a new phenomenon and reveali...

Mar 14, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

Eureka! Higgs Boson Discovery Confirmed After Analysing Additional Data

Physicists from Large Hadron Collider said that they have new evidence that shows that the particle discovered in July 2012 is indeed the Higgs Boson- the subatomic particle that's associated with mechanism that gives mass to particles. The next step, physicists say, will be to identify the type of ...

Feb 22, 2013 03:13 PM EST

Next-Gen Super Collider Design Teams Join Forces

In an effort to build a next generation of super-colliders to gain ever deeper insights into the fundamental mechanisms of the universe, and especially to examine the properties of the Higgs-like particle that was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva last year, a new partnership called ...

Feb 19, 2013 12:47 PM EST

LHC Beauty Experiment Data Was Last Before Long Shutdown

Just before the Long Shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this month, the LHC beauty (LHCb) experiment took data from collisions between protons and ions for the first time during the recent lead-proton run.

Feb 14, 2013 04:43 PM EST

LHC Collider Recorded Over 75 Petabyte Until Today's Shutdown

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has generated the enormous amount of 75 petabytes of physics data during the past three years, until today's February 14 maintenance shutdown. Computer engineers at CERN, the location of the world's very first web server, today announced that the CERN Data Centre has ...

Feb 14, 2013 11:03 AM EST

CERN's LHC Powers Down for Two Years: Higgs Boson Hunt Halts

CERN's LHC, which helped discover the Higgs boson particle, is shutting down for two years.

Feb 13, 2013 03:46 PM EST

The Experiment That Uses Lasers to Play With Fat Antimatter

There is an antimatter experiment with huge and super-complex machines that is as exotic as it gets at CERN: it involves 'inflating' an atom with a laser, then slow it down, catch it or bend it around corners. This is going to happen in the AEGIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator, where Steph...

Feb 04, 2013 08:44 PM EST

LHC to Increase Power Fivefold by 2020 With New Superconducting Technology

The largest scientific instrument ever built, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be upgraded to become five times more powerful until 2020. Major advancements in the required cutting-edge superconducting technology, in particular for the new high-field magnets and the high-power links, made in 20...

Feb 01, 2013 05:39 PM EST

Exotic Particle Science at CERN: Antimatter and Positronium in AEGIS Experiment

One of the several experiments at CERN is AEGIS, which aims to make the first direct measurement of Earth's gravitational effect on antimatter. To do this, the scientists need to first generate a beam of antihydrogen atoms with the right properties, which involves the Antiproton Decelerator to achie...

Jan 24, 2013 01:22 PM EST

LHC Detector Active Right Now Analyzing Quark-Gluon Plasma

Since a new round of collisions was successfully started four days ago in the Large Hadron Collider, this time between protons and heavy lead ions, the large detectors of the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are analyzing and recording the resulting particles. Among them, ALICE is specia...