Tag Archive for 'LHC'

CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Bs0 Meson

May 14, 2015 by News Staff

The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland report the first...

An electron (green) hits a proton in a nucleus, creating a pion (green-skinned particle) and transforming the proton into a neutron. Image credit: Joanna Griffin / Jefferson Lab.

CERN Physicists Measure Polarizability of Pion

Feb 16, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s COMPASS collaboration have made the most precise measurement ever of the polarizability of pion – the fundamental low-energy...

LHCb coil moving. Image credit: © CERN, 2003.

CERN Physicists Discover Two New Particles

Nov 19, 2014 by News Staff

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment today announced the discovery of two new baryon particles, named Ξb’- and...

Candidate Higgs Decay to four muons recorded by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 (ATLAS)

Techni-Higgs: European Physicists Cast Doubt on Discovery of Higgs Boson

Nov 10, 2014 by News Staff

Two years after CERN scientists announced the discovery of the famed and elusive Higgs Boson, a team of physicists from Denmark, Belgium, and the United...

CERN Physicists Discover New Subatomic Particle

Oct 12, 2014 by News Staff

According to scientists from CERN’s LHCb experiment, the discovery of a new type of meson, named Ds3*(2860)ˉ, will transform our understanding of...

Higgs boson decays to four muons: lines denote other particles, and energy deposited is shown in blue. Image credit: CMS.

Higgs Boson Decays to Fermions, CERN Study Confirms

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

New research conducted by physicists from CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has confirmed that the Higgs boson...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Image credit: CERN.

Z(4430): CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Exotic Hadrons

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration have confirmed the unambiguous observation of the long-sought exotic hadron Z(4430),...

The B0 and B0s meson decays into K and π mesons were studied by CERN scientists. The decay into a negative K meson red track and a positive π green track is show here (LHCb experiment)

CERN Physicists Observe New Matter-Antimatter Difference

Apr 25, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have reported the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays...

LHC Physicists Observe Ultra-Rare Particle Decay

Nov 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has observed for the first time one of the rarest particle decays ever...

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