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CERN Un-Discovers New Particle

Bah, humbug! A few months ago I wrote about the excitement surrounding a blip in the latest data coming out of the LHC at CERN. Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments saw the blip which seemed to be the result of a new, hitherto unknown particle that decayed to give two high energy photons. The… Read More CERN Un-Discovers New Particle

August 7, 2016August 5, 2016 Jason HehirLeave a comment

We Could Be About to Break the Standard Model of Physics

Back in December there was an announcement from the folks at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. They tentatively revealed that there had been a ‘bump’ in the data. It was a tentative announcement as they didn’t yet have enough data to say that it was confirmed, they were not yet at the 5… Read More We Could Be About to Break the Standard Model of Physics

June 16, 2016 Jason Hehir4 Comments

Nobel Prize For Physics

It’s Nobels week so it would be remiss of me not to mention this year’s poster boys and girls of science. Yesterday I talked about the prize for medicine and physiology, today it’s physics. The 2015 prize has been jointly awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their work on discovering that neutrinos have… Read More Nobel Prize For Physics

October 8, 2015October 7, 2015 Jason HehirLeave a comment

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