Category: Physics
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What do we already know?
The standard package The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists over the past century have resulted in a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter: everything that has been directly observed in the Universe until now has been found to be made from twelve basic building blocks called fundamental particles, governed by four…
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The Big Questions
Accelerators and detectors The particles that make up forces and matter are so small that if the nucleus of an atom were enlarged to the size of a tennis ball, a full stop (“.”)
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The Importance of Statistics in High-Energy Physics
“If you remember, Mark Twain once said, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’
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CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data
Data are the currency of physics.
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CMS search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in LHC data from 2010 and 2011
CERN, 13th December 2011 The statement below is also available as PDF files in: Chinese (traditional) | Chinese (simplified) | Croatian | Dutch | English | Finnish | French | German | Greek | Hungarian | Italian | Persian | Polish | Spanish | Portuguese | Russian | Serbian | Turkish The Higgs boson is…
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The Weak Mixing of Light and Heavy
The source of energy for most of the life on our planet originates from proton-proton collisions at the core of the Sun, which occur at an energy (or temperature) about a billion times less than the collision energy of the LHC.
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ATLAS and CMS combine summer ’11 search limits on the Standard Model Higgs
By combining their data ATLAS and CMS increase their sensitivity in the Higgs boson search
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Lepton fizz – search for excited leptons
Grab a can of soda, shake it thoroughly, and open it up.