CERN’s July 4 announcement that the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a particle “consistent with the Higgs boson” has raised questions about what scientists have found and what still remains to be found – and what it all means. An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS [continue reading]
Scientists came closer than ever to witnessing “Big Bang”-style conditions on Thursday after revving up the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research centre to smash sub-atomic particles together faster and harder than ever before. A simulated event in the CMS detector, featuring the appearance of the Higgs boson Physicists in the control rooms punched [continue reading]