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Still making tracks: Eighty years of the positron
Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle
New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson
With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson
ATLAS releases animated particle plots
The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data
LHCb studies particle tipping the matter-antimatter scales
The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists
Explain it in 60 seconds: spin
Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.
A question of spin for the new boson
Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson
Ban Ki-moon visits CERN
On 1 March, UN’s Secretary-General visited CERN first since the Organization was granted Observer status at the UN General Assembly last December
ATLAS: now under new management
On 1 March, the ATLAS Collaboration welcomed a new spokesperson, Dave Charlton, and two new deputy spokespersons, Thorsten Wengler and Beate Heinemann
W boson published 30 years ago
On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
Colliders Unite: Linear Colliders in new partnership
The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider