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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.

Mar 06, 2013 07:06 PM EST

"Spin Doctors" Are Working on the Higgs Boson Question

Physicists announced today, speaking at the ongoing Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, that the new particle discovered at CERN last year that is most likely the Higgs boson is looking more and more like the real thing. However, more analysis is still required before a definitive statement can ...

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 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...

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...

Jan 23, 2013 04:35 PM EST

Heavy Lead Ions Crash Into Protons in First LHC Collisions of 2013

Following a week of configuration and tests with beams of protons and lead ions, which represent a challenge as it involves a strong increase in energy and reaching the maximum of some specifications, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) team in Geneva declared "stable beams" at 3:08 pm on January 20, as...

Jan 02, 2013 03:30 PM EST

CERN's Large Hadron Collider will take a 2 year break after Higgs boson

Following a spectacular year 2012, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built, will stop operation after January 2013 for nearly 2 years of maintenance.