Quantum Diaries » CERN

Inspired by the event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris that celebrated the anniversary of the signature of the CERN convention, Sophie Redford wrote about her impressions on joining CERN as a ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/07/29/cern-through-the-eyes-of-a-young-scientist/

The 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics just finished in Valencia, Spain. This year, no big surprises were announced: no new boson, no signs from new particles or clear phenomena...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/07/14/two-anomalies-worth-noticing/

Singing happy birthday slightly off-key but in good spirit. This is how several hundred physicists gathered for the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Valencia, Spain closed ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/07/11/happy-birthday-dear-boson/

The LHCb Collaboration at CERN has just confirmed the unambiguous observation of a very exotic state, something that looks strangely like a particle being made of four quarks. As exotic as it mig...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/04/09/major-harvest-of-four-leaf-clover/

Even before my departure to La Thuile in Italy, results from the Rencontres de Moriond conference were already flooding the news feeds. This year’s Electroweak session from 15 to 22 March, star...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/04/04/moriond-2014-new-results-new-explorations-but-no-new-physics/

This is the last part of a series of three on supersymmetry, the theory many believe could go beyond the Standard Model. First I explained what is the Standard Model and show its limitations. The...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/03/21/has-anybody-seen-my-supersymmetric-particles/

This is the second part of a series of three on supersymmetry, the theory many believe could go beyond the Standard Model. First I explained what is the Standard Model and showed its limitations....

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/03/19/supersymmetry-a-tantalising-theory/

This is the first part of a series of three on supersymmetry, the theory many believe could go beyond the Standard Model. First I explain what is the Standard Model and show its limitations. Then...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/03/14/the-standard-model-a-beautiful-but-flawed-theory/

CERN will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. That means 60 years of pioneering scientific research and exciting discoveries. Two Italian physicists, Maria and Giuseppe Fidecaro, remem...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/02/05/maria-and-giuseppe-lives-intertwined-with-cerns-history/

While the CERN accelerator complex was being revamped in 2013, the ASACUSA experiment took time to carefully review the data taken in 2012 at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility. This painst...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/01/28/anti-beam-me-up-scotty/

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration and to help keep us young at heart, CERN has launched a special competition for students called: Beam line for schools. CERN is inviting students aged ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/01/16/a-beam-of-your-own/

The past two years have been rather exceptional for CERN: first in 2012, the CMS and ATLAS experiments discovered the Higgs boson, confirming the mechanism elaborated 48 years earlier by Robert B...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/01/15/a-whole-universe-to-be-discovered/

Both the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN have now shown solid evidence that the new particle discovered in July 2012 behaves even more like the Higgs boson, by establishing that it also deca...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/12/06/one-giant-leap-for-the-higgs-boson/

If you have not had a chance to visit CERN in Geneva, you can now do it in London. The London Science Museum just opened a new exhibition called: Collider. I had the opportunity to visit it and c...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/11/25/visiting-cern-in-london/

The whole of CERN was elated today to learn that the Nobel Prize for Physics had been awarded this year to Professors François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work on what is now k...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/10/08/a-nobel-prize-most-appreciated-at-cern/