On Friday, September 15th, the historic Cassini mission, an international endeavour, led by NASA and ESA, came to an end. The Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere after almost 20 years in space and a 13- year-long exploration of the ringed planet and its surroundings.
Charmonium Physics at LHCb
On 13th of September, the LHCb experiment at CERN presented a measurement of the masses of two particular particles with a precision that is unprecedented at a collider like the LHC. Until then, precise studies of these “charmonium” particles were only possible with purpose-built experiments and seemed impossible to be achieved at a hadron collider.
Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!
Five years ago, on 4th of July 2012, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle whose discovery had been expected by generations of particle physicists for almost half a century. Continue reading "Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!"
Peter Higgs and the Higgs Boson
Peter Ware Higgs, the physicist born on 29th of May 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, to whom the Higgs boson owes its name, published the papers in 1964 which resulted in a 50 year long search for this elusive particle.
The Higgs boson was finally discovered with the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.
Higgs boson search at the LHC
One of the main motivations for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator at CERN, was to search for evidence of the Higgs field and the Higgs boson. Continue reading "Higgs boson search at the LHC"
Albert Einstein’s documents publicly available
Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and most recognized physicists of the 20th century and one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. His insights have had profound influence on the fundamentals of physics and the way we look at the universe and the nature of space and time. He revolutionized our views of space and time, matter and light, gravitation and the universe as a whole.
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