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CERN Large Hadron Collider
3 days ago
by admin
Why is the Large Hadron Collider as large as it is? I heard today that the actual accelerator portion is only 40 Meters long, the rest is (mostly) magnets that steer the particles, so why does the accelerator need to be 17 miles in circumference? Does making it larger provide any advantages? (asked ...
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Looking for Lazy Photons...
10 days ago
by Cool Physics
New Scientist Lazy photons, leptoquarks and string balls were just some of the exotic no-shows at the world's largest particle smasher. It was the most comprehensive particle roll call to date. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, has become synonymous with the search for the ...
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The Big Bang Machine
19 days ago
by Docu Lector admin
The future of particle physics is being built below ground, in a setting that’s more appropriate for construction hardhats than lab coats. To get to the caverns where the world’s most powerful particle collider is taking shape, you have to take an industrial-issue elevator down just one floor. But t ...
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Lessons Learned from Magellan
// science
19 days ago
by AlexOlesker
Two years ago, the Department of Energy‘s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research launched the Magellan project, a research and development effort aimed at harnessing cloud computing for the most demanding information processing of the national labs. A distributed testbed infrastructure was ...
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This guy might not be 100% right
// science
20 days ago
by DWFMBA
I'm no means an Einstein hater (do they have those?), just sayi ng E = mc 2 might have some evidence against it. Having said ALL that, in Albie's own words, it was just a THEORY*. Really short version: During an experiment at CERN, super excited Neutrinos arrived in Italy approx 60 nanoseconds soone ...
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