Higgs boson is too perfect and supersymmetry is too shy
Hopes of using the Higgs boson and the elegant theory of supersymmetry as shortcuts to discovering the mysteries of the universe are evaporating fast. That’s the verdict of a major update from the...
View ArticleLHC shuts to prepare for max energy in 2015
Fresh from its discovery of the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is taking a two-year break. But there is no vacation for the engineers who run the collider, nor the physicists who crunch its...
View ArticleLHC Results contradict Supersymmetry
There’s been a bit of buzz lately about the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, announced at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium in Kyoto, Japan. Much of the focus has been on the...
View ArticleLHC discovers D-Mesons oscillating between Matter and Antimatter
Much of the focus of the Large Hadron Collider, at least as far as the outside world sees it, has been on the Higgs boson. While scientists haven’t yet said that they’ve discovered “the” Higgs boson,...
View ArticleDisappointment: The Higgs Boson looks exactly like it should
The search for the Higgs boson continues, but the latest update from CERN scientists is that they’re on the right track. While the Large Hadron Collider is down for maintenance and upgrade and won’t be...
View ArticleLHC: Proof of matter/antimatter difference in Bs Mesons
Antimatter is the exact opposite of matter, the same particles with their charge switched around. That’s the popular view, but it’s not quite accurate. Not all particle/antiparticle pairs are exact...
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