The theory of tiny particles isn’t complete. But new discoveries are helping scientists expand it.
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The compact accelerators are 100 times smaller than traditional ones, and could easily fit inside hospitals and laboratories.
New physics may be needed to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.
A recent experiment with atomic nuclei is hard to square with our current understanding of physics.
If we want an improved theory of particle physics, understanding neutrino masses is key.
The LHCb experiment at CERN has discovered three new ‘pentaquark’ particles being created in high energy particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
A new collider at CERN could push particle physics deep into an unexplored microscopic realm.
What shape is an electron? The answer, believe it or not, has implications for our understanding of the entire universe, and could reveal whether there are mysterious particles still to be discovered.
Scientists at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider have seen something that may force us to abandon everything we thought we knew about the world on the level of particles.
The Large Hadron Collider has generated mind-blowing science in the last decade – including the Higgs boson particle. Why is the LHC so important, and how will physicists use it in the years to come?
A particle physicist explains just what this keystone theory includes. After 50 years, it’s the best we’ve got to answer what everything in the universe is made of and how it all holds together.
Stephen Hawking thought a form of string theory could be our best bet for a ‘theory of everything’.
Deep beneath the Alpine ski slopes, patient scientists are waiting to observe a rare radioactive decay that would make us rewrite the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Our panel of experts speculate on which of science’s biggest questions could be answered in the coming months.
Researchers working on the LHC have been struggling to find new particles lately. But the latest results suggest things may be about to change.
CERN’s huge particle accelerator has been switched back on after a two-year upgrade to continue its search for answers.
New results from the Large Hadron Collider further could help eliminate some theoretical possibilities for what lies beyond the standard model of particle physics.
Subatomic particles have shaped and continue to shape our universe but despite perfect predictions by physicists, the theory about unseen particles is still wrong.
For less than the cost of a single Typhoon jetfighter, the upgraded LHC will push our understanding of physics to the brink.
The giant Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s lab in Europe may be closed until 2015 but experiments will still be run there in the second half of this year on much smaller synchrotrons that examined the decay…
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Particle physicist, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Physics, Head of Department, Lancaster University
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Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Marie Curie Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics Informatics, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Particle Physics, UCL
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Research Professor and Director of the International Institute for Accelerator Applications, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Manchester
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Reader in Particle Physics, Lancaster University
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