What else could the Higgs be?
Scientists might need to go beyond the Standard Model to explain the mass of the Higgs-like boson observed at the Large Hadron Collider. On July 4, scientists around the world popped open champagne...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing the Large Hadron Collider
Our understanding of the universe is about to change. For the past few decades, physicists have been able to describe with increasing detail the fundamental particles that make up the universe and the...
View ArticleAbe Seiden: The Particle Physics Roadmap
In October 2006, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) provided a new roadmap for a broad and very exciting science agenda in particle physics research. The roadmap’s destinations are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
String theory
String theory proposes that the fundamental constituents of the universe are one-dimensional strings rather than point-like particles. What we perceive as particles are actually vibrations in loops...
View ArticleResult of the week
Behind every big breakthrough is a series of small steps that build on each other to enhance our understanding of the universe. At Fermilab's Tevatron Collider, physicists have been telling the...
View ArticleWhat can we expect from the LHC? (APS April 2008)
In a press conference this morning, Abe Seiden of the University of California, Santa Cruz, showed a great timeline that plots the amount of data collected to be collected at the Large Hadron Collider...
View ArticleExotic particle of the day: the stringball
Stringballs are a kind of exotic particle that could exist at the end of the life of an evaporating black hole. If they exist, they would be in discovery reach of the Large Hadron Collider.
View ArticleAnticipating the first steps beyond the Standard Model
Members of the SLAC theory group describe the kinds of questions they are trying to answer and mysteries they are trying to resolve based on the expected first data from the Large Hadron Collider.
View ArticleCould DZero result point to multiple Higgses?
Theorists say the discovery of a significant imbalance between the production of matter and antimatter during particle collisions at the Tevatron points to new physics at work -- including the...
View ArticleString theory may hold answers about quark-gluon plasma
Recreating the conditions present just after the Big Bang has given experimentalists a glimpse into how the universe formed. Now, scientists have begun to see striking similarities between the...
View Article
