The Large Hadron Collider created by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, officially became the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator on Monday. The enormous facility has sent two beams of protons shooting through its ring at 1.18 teraelectronvolts. It happened 10 days after scientists started up the collider again following a one-year hiatus due to technical problems. The previous record of 0.98 TeV was set by the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron collider in 2001.
Hunting the Higgs Boson
-break - "Scientists have observed bosons, and, using the Standard Model, have predicted that the Higgs boson exists, but they have not yet observed one."
Tricky little buggers those bosons: Now you see them; now you don't.
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Large Hadron Collider Shatters Energy Record
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 30, 2009 11:57 AMThe Large Hadron Collider created by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, officially became the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator on Monday. The enormous facility has sent two beams of protons shooting through its ring at 1.18 teraelectronvolts. It happened 10 days after scientists started up the collider again following a one-year hiatus due to technical problems. The previous record of 0.98 TeV was set by the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron collider in 2001.
-break - "Scientists have observed bosons, and, using the Standard Model, have predicted that the Higgs boson exists, but they have not yet observed one."
Tricky little buggers those bosons: Now you see them; now you don't.