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Scientists Plan New Project to Search for Particles that Escape from LHC
2018-05-23 16:30:46| Extremetech
The Massive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra Stable Neutral Particles (which goes by the inaccurate but much simpler nickname MATHUSLA) will look for particles the LHC misses because they're too stable. The post Scientists Plan New Project to Search for Particles that Escape from LHC appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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That possible new particle from the LHC was just a blip
2016-08-10 19:00:54| Extremetech
It's not a WIMP and it doesn't break the Standard Model. But it did get a particle physicist from CERN to say "we have always been very cool."
Possible new particle from LHC has physicists cautiously excited
2016-05-03 18:30:42| Extremetech
Surprising readings from December just won't go away -- and unlike the LHC's last big particle, this one would upset physics rather than confirming it.
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What happens if you get hit by the main beam of a particle accelerator like the LHC?
2014-07-28 20:04:33| Extremetech
I don't know about you, but ever since I started covering the Large Hadron Collider and other large-scale particle accelerators for ExtremeTech, I've always morbidly wondered: What would happen if a scientist was accidentally hit by the main particle beam? Would the scientist explode in the style of beam weapons in Star Trek? Would the beam bore a hole clean through the scientist's chest? Or maybe the beam would do nothing at all and pass through the scientist harmlessly? Well, fortunately (unfortunately?) we don't have to guess, as this exact scenario actually happened to Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian scientist, way back in 1978.
LHC confirms weve definitely discovered the Higgs boson, and (sadly) it behaves exactly as the Standard Model predicts
2014-06-23 14:16:34| Extremetech
Some two years after a Higgs boson was discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a new study confirms that the newly discovered particle is definitely the Higgs boson, and it behaves exactly as the Standard Model of particle physics predicts. On the one hand, this is obviously a huge win for science -- but on the other, there will be many scientists who are disappointed that, yet again, the Standard Model has held up to another round of immense scrutiny. If you were hoping for the Higgs boson to be the weird particle that led us towards the weird and wonderful nether regions of science beyond the Standard Model -- supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy -- then sadly this is not the particle you were looking for.
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