Tag: Higgs

  • Serbia expected to become CERN Associate Member

    Serbia expected to become CERN Associate Member

    On 10th January, a delegation from Serbia, led by President Boris Tadic, arrived at CERN to sign the agreement that would grant Serbia associate membership to CERN, as a step towards full membership.

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  • CMS search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in LHC data from 2010 and 2011

    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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  • Homing in on the Higgs

    Science is closing in on the most elusive thing in the Universe.

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  • 2011 proton collisions come to an end

    2011 proton collisions come to an end

    At about half-past five in the evening on Sunday, 30th October, an e-mail from Run Coordination to the CMS collaboration said: At 17:00 today the LHC dumped the last proton beams for the year to start the machine development period and to prepare for the ion running.

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  • ATLAS and CMS combine summer ’11 search limits on the Standard Model Higgs

    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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  • Higgs particle could be found by Christmas

    Higgs particle could be found by Christmas

    The hunt for the Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, say researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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  • Atom-smashing hype faces reality

    Atom-smashing hype faces reality

    The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider serve as a reality check for expectations that radical scientific discoveries are just around the corner.

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  • A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History?

    A few years ago, celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking was widely reported in the press to have placed a provocative public bet that the LHC (along with all particle accelerators that preceded it) would never find the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” believed responsible for having imbued massive particles with their mass when the…

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  • Higgs Boson search continues as signs of God Particle fade

    Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have reported another twist in their search for the “God Particle” after signals that they hoped might lead them to the Higgs boson disappeared.

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  • Higgs signal sinks from view

    The Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in all of physics, is proving tougher to find than physicists had hoped.

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