Particle Physics

Particle accelerators could make spent nuclear fuel 200x safer

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 2:38pm

Until we can manage to make renewable energy sources pay off, nuclear power is arguably (and feel free to argue this) one of the cleanest and safest methods of energy generation there is. One of the biggest problems is the dangerous spent fuel, but there may be a solution to that: particle accelerators.

Gigantic new detector in Minnesota to search for chubby neutrinos

Evan Ackerman

Monday, September 10, 2012 - 9:58am

Neutrinos barely have any mass at all, but in conclusive proof that all things are relative, some are hella fat while others are wicked thin. Since they're hard to measure, we have no idea which ones are which, but a fancy new neutrino detector in Minnesota will start solving the problem with the largest plastic structure ever built.

CERN may have found exotic Higgs 'impostor' particle

Evan Ackerman

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 12:15pm

When CERN announced the discovery of a new particle last week, it was very, very careful to not explicitly call that particle the Higgs boson, instead citing "strong evidence" for the discovery of "a particle consistent with the Higgs boson." Now we know why: a new analysis suggests that CERN's data may show an "impostor" particle, and not the Higgs.

Muon collider could make for a cheap, efficient 'Higgs factory'

Evan Ackerman

Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 4:20pm

Yes, we've probably found the Higgs boson. Hooray! But in order to explore the properties of this new particle, we're gonna need a whooole bunch of 'em, and the Large Hadron Collider isn't really designed for that. Maybe what we really need is a completely new collider: a "Higgs factory."

Rumor: Higgs Boson 'God Particle' evidence could come very soon

Evan Dashevsky

Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 8:59am

The nerdosphere is abound with rumors that one of the most ambitious scientific experiments in history may finally have yielded some tangible results. The Higg Boson particle, aka the "God Particle," may have been found, which would not only validate the Large Hadron Collider, but shake up particle physics, too.

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Particle accelerators could make spent nuclear fuel 200x safer

Gigantic new detector in Minnesota to search for chubby neutrinos

CERN may have found exotic Higgs 'impostor' particle

Muon collider could make for a cheap, efficient 'Higgs factory'

Rumor: Higgs Boson 'God Particle' evidence could come very soon

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