Category: Physics

  • What and where is Antimatter?

    Antimatter detectives The antimatter is missing – not from CERN, but from the Universe!

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  • Heavy Ions in CMS

    Probing the Plasma Lead nuclei consist of large numbers of protons and neutrons, both made up of quarks.

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  • How did Matter form?

    Colliding heavy nuclei Clues to the early Universe The Universe has changed a great deal in the 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang, but the basic building blocks of everything from microbes to galaxies were signed, sealed and delivered in the first few millionths of a second.

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  • Detecting extra dimensions

    Superstring theory is elegant but speculative and throws up a number of possible experimental outcomes, some more likely than others.

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  • Do we really live in only three dimensions?

    String theory and extra dimensions Loose ends Will the string tie the Standard package?

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  • Detecting Dark Matter

    Evidence from the depths of the Universe has ruled out a number of models for what the mysterious dark matter might be, but one candidate that fits so far is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) otherwise known as the “neutralino”, the lightest of a whole range of new particles suggested by a theory called supersymmetry.

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  • CMS Higgs boson search results from 2010-2011 data samples

    CMS Higgs boson search results from 2010-2011 data samples

    This week the CMS collaboration will publish the results of its search for the Higgs boson that were presented at CERN in December 2011 [1].

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  • What is the Universe really made of?

    What is the Universe really made of?

    Dark secrets of the Universe It’s perhaps natural that we don’t know much about how the Universe was created – after all, we were never there ourselves.

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  • Seeking Susy

    Will SUSY be found?

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  • Are there more Particles left to find?

    Supersymmetry: Uniting the forces Towards a superforce Our understanding of the workings of the Universe often progress when unexpected connections are found between what appeared at first to be separate entities.

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