Almost six years after the Higgs boson has been discovered, it still hasn’t lost its magic. It remains in the spotlight of physics conferences and is still a favorite topic in the media.
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What’s up with the Higgs since its groundbreaking discovery?
What has happened since the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron collider in 2012?
Did physicists find what they expected, a Higgs boson which behaves as predicted? Or did they uncover deviations from the predicted properties, which could indicate the existence of new particles or forces that interact with the Higgs boson, or even additional Higgs boson species? Continue reading "What’s up with the Higgs since its groundbreaking discovery?"
First cosmic discovery in both gravitational waves and light
A groundbreaking announcement was made on 16th of October by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and its partners. For the very first time, both gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves have been observed from the same cosmic event, the inspiral and collision of two neutron stars. Continue reading "First cosmic discovery in both gravitational waves and light"
Nobel Prize goes to Gravitational Waves
On October 3, this year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded jointly to physicists Rainer Weiss, emeritus professor at MIT, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, both emeritus professors at Caltech
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves," as the Nobel Prize Committee put it.
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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!"