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To celebrate the first five years of operation on board the International Space Station, Professor Sam Ting, the spokesperson for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) Collaboration just prese...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/12/16/latest-news-from-outer-space-on-dark-matter/

Pour célébrer les cinq premières années d’opération à bord de la Station spatiale internationale, le Professeur Sam Ting, porte-parole de la Collaboration Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/12/16/du-beau-pain-sur-la-planche-pour-la-matiere-sombre/

Earlier last month, Romania became the 22nd Member State of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, home to the world’s most powerful atom-smasher. But the hundred Romanian sci...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/08/01/particles-over-politics-the-more-the-merrier/

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has already delivered more high energy data than it had in 2015. To put this in numbers, the LHC has produced 4.8 fb-1, compared to 4.2 fb-1 last year, whe...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/06/17/enough-data-to-explore-the-unknown/

Le Grand collisionneur de hadrons (LHC) du CERN a déjà produit depuis avril plus de données à haute énergie qu’en 2015. Pour quantifier le tout, le LHC a produit 4.8 fb-1 en 2016, à compa...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/06/17/assez-de-donnees-pour-explorer-linconnu/

Has CERN discovered a new particle or not? Nobody knows yet, although we are now two steps closer than in December when the first signs of a possible discovery were first revealed. First step: bo...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/03/18/two-steps-closer-to-a-possible-discovery/

Le CERN a-t-il découvert une nouvelle particule ou pas? Personne ne le sait encore, bien que nous ayons maintenant fait deux pas de plus depuis le dévoilement des premiers signes d’une possib...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/03/18/deux-pas-de-plus-vers-une-decouverte/

Today begins the second operation period of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. By declaring “stable beams”, the LHC operators signal to physicists it is now safe to turn all their detec...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/06/03/in-search-of-the-secret-passage/

All those super low energy jets that the LHC cannot see? LHC can still see them. Hi Folks, Particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are, in a sense, very powerful microscopes. The ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/05/18/dy-resummation/

This article appeared in symmetry on April 22, 2015. Mysterious particles called neutrinos seem to come in three varieties. However, peculiar findings in experiments over the past two decades mak...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/04/22/italian-neutrino-experiment-to-move-to-the-us/

While everybody is excited by the coming “phase 2” of the LHC, someone else is already looking beyond it, thinking: “what are the possible future scenarios for our beloved Large Hadron Coll...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/04/07/afterlhc-going-beyond-the-collider/

I don’t usually get to spill the beans on a big discovery like this, but this time, I DO! CERN Had Dark Energy All Along!! That’s right. That mysterious energy making up ~68% of the universe ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/03/31/cern-had-dark-energy-all-along-uses-it-to-fuel-researchers/

A few weeks ago, I found myself in one of the most beautiful places on earth: wedged between a metallic cable tray and a row of dusty cooling pipes at the bottom of Sector 13 of the ATLAS Detecto...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/01/18/the-ties-that-bind/

The past week saw extremely sad events in Paris, reminding us that our society relies on a fragile equilibrium. This is just the most recent episode over the last years in a long list of events a...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/01/12/united-for-peace/

This Fermilab press release came out on Oct. 20, 2014. Scientists across the United States will soon have access to new, ultra-high-speed network links spanning the Atlantic Ocean thanks to a pro...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/10/22/new-high-speed-transatlantic-network-to-benefit-science-collaborations-across-the-u-s/