News articles tagged with 'collider'
Hot stuff: Quark-gluon-plasma explained by black-hole-physics
— 18 Aug 2010 17:09 | PhysicsParticle physics is is seeing revolutionary developments. Baffling connections are emerging between the physics of gravitation and the physics of elementary particles. With completely…
CU-Boulder team aids in record-breaking subatomic particle collisions
— 1 Apr 2010 09:48 | PhysicsA group of University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and students involved in the international Large Hadron Collider project in Europe are celebrating the most powerful smashing of…
University of Minnesota physicists play role in Large Hadron Collider research
— 31 Mar 2010 09:28 | PhysicsThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, launched a new era for particle physics today when the first particles collided at the record energy of seven trillion…
Iowa State physicists beginning to see data from the Large Hadron Collider
— 7 Jan 2010 03:57 | PhysicsThree Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet's biggest…
LHC produces first physics results
— 16 Dec 2009 12:21 | PhysicsThe first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online…
Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in 1 piece
— 6 Oct 2009 18:22 | PhysicsControlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist…
CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider
— 16 Sep 2009 14:06 | PhysicsCERN's director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva…
MSU scientists help lead teams in detection of fundamental component of matter
— 22 Mar 2009 17:40 | PhysicsMichigan State University scientists and colleagues around the world took a step closer to understanding the universe with the discovery of a fundamental building block of nature. The…
Iowa State researchers contribute to world's biggest science experiment
— 9 Sep 2008 17:16 | PhysicsThe first beam of protons will begin racing around the world's biggest science experiment on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and Iowa State University physicists will be part of the research team…
Michigan integral to world's largest physics experiment
— 8 Sep 2008 12:06 | PhysicsAfter 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission…