particle physics

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...

The Large Hadron Collider tunnel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

A New Particle to Break the Standard Model?

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/07/2015

In an underreported development, scientists at the Large Hadron...