Large Hadron Collider

Equipment surrounding the SuperKEKB installation. Source: KEK

Rivalling LHC’s High Energy, Japanese High Intensity Collider Nears Completion

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/03/2016

The SuperKEKB will produce 50-times more collisions than previous...

A computer's reconstruction of the diphoton event, indicating a particle weighing around 750 GeV/c2, observed by the ATLAS detector. Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Hopes for a New Particle at the LHC Offset By Call for More Data

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/12/2015

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations reported subtle hints of...

Inside one of the control centres of the collaborations working on the LHC at CERN. Each collaboration corresponds handles an experiment, or detector, stationed around the LHC tunnel. Credit: CERN

New LHC Data Has More of the Same But Could Something Be in the Offing?

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/12/2015

Data from the machine's upgraded run in 2015 offers...

Much like the computer chips that made Gordon Moore famous, the accelerator on a chip could dramatically shrink the size of accelerator technology to benefit society. Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Particle Accelerators May Soon Be Within Reach of the Developing World

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/11/2015

In the last decade, tabletop accelerators have inched closer...

A view of the LHC tunnel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

LHC Revs Up to Go Where No Collider Has Gone Before

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/06/2015

The Large Hadron Collider, a particle-smasher in Europe, is...

A Higgs boson decaying into 2 tau leptons (azure cones), which subsequently decay into either an electron (blue line) or a muon (red line). Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Q&A With Scientists From the World’s Largest Science Experiment

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/05/2015

Scientists from the world's largest science experiment participated in...